Friends: Those of you who have read and enjoyed (and perhaps used) Gene Garfield's prolific writings will find the following two papers by Stephen J. Bensman interesting. Happy readig! These two publications are now available in full text at : Bensman S.J. "Garfield and the Impact Factor" Annual Review of Information Science and Technology" Vol: 41, p.93-155, 2007. Editor B. Cronin. http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/bensman/bensman.html Bensman SJ. "Garfield and the Impact Factor: The creation, utilization, and validation of a citation measure" Part 2, The Probabilistic, Statistical, and Sociological Bases of the Measure - (Unpublished as of January 2007). http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/bensman/bensmanegif22007.pdf Stephen J Bensman : notsjb@lsu.edu ___________________________________________________________ The all-new Yahoo! Mail goes wherever you go - free your email address from your Internet provider. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.