Personal Citation Index

[Stevan Harnad]

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, Garfield, Eugene wrote:

> Dear friends: I did not see this message when I responded a few minutes ago
> to Michel Menou and see that our good friend Ron Rousseau is the one who has
> made the assumption about 50%.  I can see that this is a wild guess based
> upon some anecdotal perception of how much literature is covered by
> traditional abstracting and indexing services and what "may" appear in the
> non-indexed literature and in web sites.
>
> Since my valiant assistant traces references to my name on web sites I
> receive a list every week or two of about a dozen sites. Most of these are
> not true citations but rather mentions of my name for one reason or another
> as e.g. in a course listing.
>
> I agree with Ron and the others that it would be important for each
> individual to be aware of who is using their work, but don't get your hopes
> up too high. Gene
>
> When responding, please attach my original message
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Archambault [mailto:Eric.Archambault at VIDEOTRON.CA]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 10:01 AM
> To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU
> Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Personal Citation Index
>
>
> 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
>