Personal Citation Index

[Gretchen Whitney]

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Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 17:46:42 +0000 (GMT)
From: Stevan Harnad <harnad at COGPRINTS.SOTON.AC.UK>


See

http://cite-base.ecs.soton.ac.uk/help/index.php3

and

http://opcit.eprints.org/

as examples of things to come along these lines.

Stevan Harnad

Harnad, S. (2001) "Why I think research access, impact and assessment
are linked." Times Higher Education Supplement 1487: p. 16.
http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Tp/thes1.html


On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Wallace C. Koehler wrote:

> Ronald et al are right. I too have been collecting citations to my own work for
> curiosity's sake (as well as promotion and salary -- unimportant stuff). I am
> particularly interested in citations that occur on the Web. Citations on the WWW
> open new vistas/horizons/whatever for analysis. For example, I have noted that some
> of my stuff appears in reading lists, resource lists, syllabi, and such ...
> resources "classic" bibliometrics would not be able to find. I suspect inclusion of
> one's work in a syllabus may "rank" higher than a citation in an article for (1)
> there are many reasons for article citations, but (2) certainly syllabus citation
> is done to train the neophyte.
>
> I know that Olle Persson has begin to look at these kinds of things ... with some
> very interesting results...perhaps he could weigh in with some of his observations
>
> wally koehler
>
> Eric Archambault wrote:
>
> > I fully agree with Ronald.
> >
> > Eric
> >
> > >Personal Citation Index
> > >
> > >Since 'always' I have been trying to collect citations to my works
> > >(just out of
> > >personal curiosity).
> > >
> > >If everyone did this and results were put together, this could give an idea
> > >about the real coverage of the Web of Science. My guess is that it
> > >is certainly
> > >less than 50% of all citations.
> > >
> > >Such studies would show which types of articles end up in books (more than in
> > >published articles), or on webpages (more than in published articles). Which
> > >ones are popular among students (ending up in master's theses, or homeworks
> > >published on the Internet). The possibilities for comparisons and
> > >investigations are immense. I guess no one (in the West) knows how often he or
> > >she is cited in local Russian, Japanese or Chinese articles or books.
> > >
> > >At the moment data collection for 'personal citations' can only be done on a
> > >personal basis (but groups of persons can look out for each other's citations,
> > >especially in printed-only works). I hope that in the future, this kind of
> > >investigations will be much easier ('everything' becoming electronic). It
> > >certainly is one of the promises of the semantic web.
> > >
> > >Ronald Rousseau
> > >Belgium
>
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