Re: Science Citation Index

["George Janelidze" <janelg@telkomsa.net>]

Dear Colleagues,

I think John asks a very good question! However:

While the Thomson Scientific's "Science Citation Index" could be related to
some commercial matters that I do not understand, Mathematical Reviews in
just Mathematical Reviews,

and for each of us it has "Author Profile",

and among other things it gives you the total number of citations on your
papers,

and if you click on "Citations", it lists citations,

and below the list there is "Reference List Journals",

and if you click on that, you will see a lot of journal titles,

but not "Theory and Applications of Categories", not "Cahiers", and not
"Applied Categorical Structures".

That is, according to Mathematical Reviews, the citations in Category Theory
journals are not citations!

I am sure this is not what Mathematical Reviews really wanted to do, and
that it must be corrected first of all.

George Janelidze


----- Original Message -----
From: "John Baez" <john.c.baez@gmail.com>
To: <categories@mta.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 7:23 PM
Subject: categories: Science Citation Index


> Dear category theorists -
>
> Thomson Scientific runs the well-known "Science Citation Index", which
> "provides researchers, administrators, faculty, and students with quick,
> powerful access to the bibliographic and citation information they need to
> find relevant, comprehensive research data".  I believe data from this
index
> is used in tenure and promotion decisions at some universities.
>
> I just heard that "Theory and Applications of Categories" and "Cahiers"
are
> not listed on the Science Citation Index, while - for example - Elsevier's
> journal "Homeopathy" is listed there.
>
> Is this true?  Is there some way to improve the situation?
>
> Best,
> jb