Citation Indexing for Studying Science

@article{Garfield1970CitationIF,
  title={Citation Indexing for Studying Science},
  author={Eugene Garfield},
  journal={Nature},
  year={1970},
  volume={227},
  pages={669-671}
}
By revealing who has really influenced the course of science the Science Citation Index seems to be a valuable sociometric tool for historians and sociologists. 
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259 Citations
Highly Influential Citations
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Background Citations
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Methods Citations
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259 Citations

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How Services from the Institute for Scientific InformationR (ISIR) Aid Journal Editors and Publishers
The ways by which scientific editors and publishers can utilize ISIR services to advantage are described. Seven key editorial practices that improve the retrievability of scientific articles through…
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The state-of-the-art in usage-based informetric, i.e. the use of usage data to study the scholarly process, is reviewed.
Early Years of the Journal of Learning for Development: A Combination of Bibliometrics and Thematic Analysis
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Is citation analysis a legitimate evaluation tool?
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It is concluded that as the scientific enterprise becomes larger and more complex, and its role in society more critical, it will become more difficult, expensive and necessary to evaluate and identify the largest contributors.
Search strategy, construction and use of citation networks, with a socio-scientific example: "Amorphous semi-conductors and S.R. ovshinsky"
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Following the construction and assessment of a network describing the development of amorphous semiconductors, it is concluded that citation diagrams are a valuable aid for socio-scientific studies.
The Interdisciplinary Influence of Library and Information Science 1996–2004: A Journal-to-Journal Citation Analysis
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Journal Impact Factor
Like nuclear energy, the impact factor has become a mixed blessing. I expected that it would be used constructively while recognizing that in the wrong hands it might be abused. In the early 1960s…
POWER LAW RELATIONS IN SCIENCE BIBLIOGRAPHY—A SELF‐CONSISTENT INTERPRETATION
Several power law relations are found to occur in bibliographic studies of scientific journals, articles, and citations. These can be interpreted in a self‐consistent manner in terms of growth…
Citation of the literature by information scientists in their own publications
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Frequencies of the number of references per paper were obtained for the information science literature represented by all papers cited in Information Science Abstracts, volumes 1–6 (1966-1971), and information science was found to be less scholarly than pharmacy.
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Citation Indexing for Studying Science
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It is in meeting this need for an effective, etlicient, and unobtrusive sociometric tool that citation indexing may find its most important application.
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