Citation indexes for science.
@article{Schoenbach1956CitationIF, title={Citation indexes for science.}, author={U. Schoenbach and E. Garfield}, journal={Science}, year={1956}, volume={123 3185}, pages={ 61-2 } }
Eugene Garfield's article, " Citation indexes for science " [Science 122, 108 (1955)], is interesting beyond doubt. If we had in our library a citation index such as he proposes, I should use it to advantage. Amid today's overwhelming difficulties in scientific communication, however, this index would solve too few problems to justify its surely great cost at this time. Even though all the cited references in a given article were indexed, those ideas and key words not covered by the cited… CONTINUE READING
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