How to use HistCite with Scopus data

[Loet Leydesdorff]

Dear Gene, 

 

Yes, I met Alexander Pudovkin (at ASIST with you); Gali and Henk are
excellent colleagues and good friends.

 

WoS or Scopus are not so very different in use. (There are some pros and
cons.)

 

It is nice to see that HistCite was updated and is in good shape. Diana
Lucio-Arias and others used it also in combination with main-path analysis
in Pajek. Alternatively, one can use the Pajek-files directly from HistCite
and take them into VOSViewer or Gephi for different visualizations (e.g.,
heat maps).

 

Best,

Loet

 

From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics
[mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Eugene Garfield
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2013 11:12 PM
To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU
Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] How to use HistCite with Scopus data

 


Dear Loet: I appreciate your efforts to increase use of HistCite. Did you
ever meet Dr. Alexander Pudovkin? He is very knowledgeable on the subject of
HistCite. Perhaps you might find a way to invite him to visit your
laboratory. He lives in St. Petersburg. 

Have you ever discussed HistCite with Henk Moed or Gali Halevi at Elsevier? 

Perhaps now they should promote its use among Scopus users. 

I never had access to Scopus, but it is available at the University of
Pennsylvania Library. I continue to use WOS or WOK since I am familiar with
it. 

 

Best wishes Gene Garfield

 

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From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics
[mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Loet Leydesdorff
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2013 3:56 AM
To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU
Subject: [SIGMETRICS] How to use HistCite with Scopus data


Dear colleagues, 

 

I updated the routine scop2isi.exe as scop2wos.exe (at
http://www.leydesdorff.net/software/scop2wos ) so that Scopus data can now
be used with the new version of HistCite
<http://thomsonreuters.com/products_services/science/science_products/a-z/hi
stcite/> T for algorithmic historiography (Garfield et al. 2003).

 

Garfield, E., Pudovkin, A. I., & Istomin, V. S. (2003). Why do we need
algorithmic historiography? Journal of the American Society for Information
Science and Technology, 54(5), 400-412. 

Leydesdorff, L. (2010). Eugene Garfield and Algorithmic Historiography:
Co-Words, Co-Authors, and Journal Names. Annals of Library and Information
Studies, 57(3), 248-260; available at http://arxiv.org/abs/1005.5444 .

 

* HistCiteT is freely available at
http://thomsonreuters.com/products_services/science/science_products/a-z/his
tcite/. 

** apologies for cross-postings

 

Feel free to contact me if it would not work properly.

 

Best,

Loet

 

PS1. I acknowledge Williams Contreras Higuera for bringing the need to
update to my attention. 

PS2. This program will not work with 64-bit operating systems. One then has
to work in the XP-mode of the Virtual PC.

 

  _____  

Loet Leydesdorff 

Professor, University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR)
Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam.
Tel. +31-20-525 6598; fax: +31-842239111

 <mailto:loet at leydesdorff.net> loet at leydesdorff.net ;
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Visiting Professor, ISTIC,  <http://www.istic.ac.cn/Eng/brief_en.html>
Beijing; Honorary Fellow, SPRU,  <http://www.sussex.ac.uk/spru/> University
of Sussex; http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ych9gNYAAAAJ
<http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ych9gNYAAAAJ&hl=en> &hl=en  

 

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