BIO 490: Senior Seminar in Biological Sciences
Citation
Indexing
Most scientific articles include a bibliography, or list of works cited.
Such a listing allows you to go backwards in time to find other articles related
to the topic of the article you are reading. Citation indexing uses these
bibliographies to allow a researcher to follow a topic or article forward
in time, by linking the article with other articles that have included the
primary article in their bibliographies.
The web sites below describe citation indexing in greater detail. The primary
database that performs citation indexing in the sciences is the Science Citation
Index, also called the Web of Science. It is available at NCSU libraries through
the link below.
The Concept of Citation Indexing
http://www.isinet.com/isi/hot/essays/citationindexing/1.html
An essay by Eugene Garfield, the founder of the Science Citation Index.
Web of Science Tutorial
http://www.isinet.com/tutorials/webofscience/
Web of Science tutorial from the publishers of the Science Citation Index/Web
of Science, takes about 10 minutes.
The Counting House, news feature by David Adam. Nature 415(6873):726-729,
Feb. 14, 2002.
This article describes some of the problems with using citation data, especially
as a tool for evaluating scientists.
NCSU Libraries has online access to Nature, use the e-journal finder
to locate "Nature (London)" to get to the Nature home page.
Web
of Science
Science Citation Index Expanded, online database, covers over 5,300 journals
in the sciences including the disciplines of agriculture, biology, chemistry,
medicine, and veterinary science. This multidisciplinary database of bibliographic
information is indexed so that you can search for specific articles by subject,
author, journal, and/or author address. Because the information stored about
each article includes the article's cited reference list (often called its
bibliography), you can also search the databases for articles that cite a
known author or work. Coverage: 1945-present.
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