Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 07:38:50 +0530
From: Subbiah Arunachalam
I reproduce below a news story - reporting on a recent study from Latin
America - with the kind permission of Mr Abel Packer of
BIREME/PAHO/WHO/SciELO.
Anyone working in the area of comparing citation databases such as the Web
of Science, Scopus and Scholar Google will find a goldmine in the work of
Prof. Peter Jacso of the University of Hawaii. He has written many papers
and made many presentations, all meticulously researched, and has shown
that WoS continues to score over others in most respects. Prof. Jacso
wrote a paper on this subject for Current Science about a year ago, when
we brought out a special section in honour of Dr Eugene Garfield on his
80th birthday.
I am sure people like Subir Sen, Dr A R D Prasad, Filbert Minj,
Gunasekaran, Shahabuddin, Prabir Ghosh Dastidar, Sukhdev Singh, Dr D K
Sahu and several others in India would like to do a similar study on
citations to Indian papers as seen from different databases. Best wishes.
Arun
[Subbiah Arunachalam]
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Newsletter VHL 054 28/july/2006
Study compares article citations in Google Scholar, SCOPUS and WoS
for the full article, visit,
http://newsletter.bireme.br/new/index.php?lang=en&newsletter=20060728
