From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/4740 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Giuseppe Longo Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: Science Citation Index Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 10:53:08 +0100 Message-ID: Reply-To: Giuseppe Longo NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1241020142 14643 80.91.229.2 (29 Apr 2009 15:49:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:49:02 +0000 (UTC) To: categories@mta.ca Original-X-From: rrosebru@mta.ca Mon Dec 8 09:39:08 2008 -0400 Return-path: Envelope-to: categories-list@mta.ca Delivery-date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 09:39:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1L9gFS-0000UR-0c for categories-list@mta.ca; Mon, 08 Dec 2008 09:34:06 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline Original-Sender: categories@mta.ca Precedence: bulk X-Keywords: X-UID: 46 Original-Lines: 25 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:4740 Archived-At: On Friday 05 December 2008, Tim Porter wrote: > On the subject of the ISI citation index,=20 : : > It may be that the EMS and AMS should start a ridicularising campaign. =A0 Mathematical Structures in Computer Science (MSCS), a Cambridge UP journal,= is=20 soon going to publish an Editors' note: Bibliometrics and the curators of= =20 orthodoxy ftp://ftp.di.ens.fr/pub/users/longo/editorsMSCS.pdf This firm critique of Bibliometrics contains also references to several=20 documents on the issue, in particular an excellent text by the Intermation= al=20 Mathematics Union. Best =20 Giuseppe Longo=20 Editro-in-chief http://www.di.ens.fr/users/longo=20