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| Title: | The impact of Eugene Garfield through the prism of Web of Science |
| Authors: | Jacso, Peter |
| Issue Date: | Sep-2010 |
| Publisher: | NISCAIR-CSIR, India |
| Abstract: | The paper attempts to quantify the impact of the
scholarly publishing activity of Dr. Eugene Garfield, the founder and
Chairman Emeritus of the Institute for
Scientific Information, the father of citation indexing of academic literature.
In the
project the most current version of the Web of
Science system was used with five of its component databases. It provides the
most comprehensive, but still not complete, set
of cited reference enhanced bibliographic records for Garfield’s journal
articles, conference papers, reviews, essays,
commentaries, letters to the editors, and for the 6,500 citations that his
publications received, and could be credited to
a matching record in the master file of Web of Science. The paper also
analyzes the effect of the fact that his books,
book chapters, technical reports are not considered in calculating the impact
measures reported by the informative Citation
Report module of Web of Science, and the consequences of the
approximately 7,000 “stray” and “orphan”
references received by all his works that would more than double Garfield’s
traditionally measured impact factor, the
average rate of citations per publication, for his entire ouvre. There is a
short
discussion about improvements that should be
made in the citation matching algorithm that –in his case- distorts the
distribution of citations among his more than
1,000 essays and commentaries in Current Contents, Current Comments and
The Scientist for reason of an exceptional bibliographic and
chronological-numerical designation pattern. Suggestions are
made to make the browsing, searching, sorting,
and processing of the reference entries and cited reference counts in the
separate index file of cited references of Web
of Science, which in his case amount to a combination of more than 13,300
matching, orphan and stray references in the
more than 3,300 reference entries to his publications that were cited at least
once. |
| Page(s): | 222-247 |
| CC License: |  CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India |
| ISSN: | 0975-2404 (Online); 0972-5423 (Print) |
| Source: | ALIS Vol.57(3) [September 2010]
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