FW: Dana Roth on citation indexing

[David Goodman]

As for competitors, see
http://www.charlestonco.com/comp.cfm?id=43
and now updated by
http://www.charlestonco.com/comp.cfm?id=55

There is also Scirus, a competitor to Google Scholar,
where I am on the advisory board
http://www.scirus.com

These products have nothing resembling JCR,
which is a pity, for the offer considerable wider
geographical coverage. There is reason
to doubt that they ever will, (rest of sentence, offline)

Dr. David Goodman
Associate Professor
Palmer School of Library and Information Science
Long Island University
and formerly
Princeton University Library

dgoodman at liu.edu
dgoodman at princeton.edu

----- Original Message -----
From: George Porter <george at LIBRARY.CALTECH.EDU>
Date: Thursday, March 9, 2006 7:06 pm
Subject: [SIGMETRICS] FW: Dana Roth on citation indexing
To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU

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> [Forwarding on Behalf of Dana Roth. -- George]
>
> In answer to Sam Brooks' concern about "missing the most complete
> citation indexes for business, communication & mass media, nursing &
> allied health, and sociology" ... my article was specifically
> aimed at
> 'competitors to the Science Citation Index and the Web of Science.'
>
> In answer to Stevan Harnad ... the Citebase website specifically warns
> that "Citebase is currently only an experimental demonstration. Users
> are cautioned not to use it for academic evaluation yet. Citation
> coverage and analysis is incomplete and hit coverage and analysis is
> both incomplete and noisy."
>
> Dana L. Roth
> Millikan Library / Caltech 1-32
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: George Porter [mailto:george at library.caltech.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 10:53 PM
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> Subject: [STS-L] Dana Roth on citation indexing
>
>
> My colleague, Dana Roth, has published an overview of the variety
> of fee
> and free citation searching services which have sprung up over the
> years.
>
> Dana L. Roth. (2005) The emergence of competitors to the Science
> Citation Index and the Web of Science. Current Science 89(9):1531-
> 6 (10
> November 2005) <http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/nov102005/1531.pdf>
>
> His contribution was part of a "Special Section on 50 Years of
> CitationIndexing".  Current Science
> <http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/>, just as all
> of the other publications of the Indian Academy of Sciences
> <http://www.ias.ac.in/publications.html>, is an Open Access journal.
>
> George S. Porter
> Sherman Fairchild Library of Engineering & Applied Science California
> Institute of Technology Mail Code 1-43, Pasadena, CA 91125-4300
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