Re: Science Citation Index

[jim stasheff <jds@math.upenn.edu>]

George,

Has anyone brought this to the attention of MR?

jim
 Janelidze wrote:
> 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,
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> and for each of us it has "Author Profile",
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> and among other things it gives you the total number of citations on your
> papers,
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> and if you click on "Citations", it lists citations,
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> and below the list there is "Reference List Journals",
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> 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
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>> is used in tenure and promotion decisions at some universities.
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>> I just heard that "Theory and Applications of Categories" and "Cahiers"
>>
> are
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>> 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
>>
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