From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/4752 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Barr Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: Science Citation Index Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 09:43:59 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: Reply-To: Michael Barr NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1241020150 14694 80.91.229.2 (29 Apr 2009 15:49:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:49:10 +0000 (UTC) To: categories@mta.ca Original-X-From: rrosebru@mta.ca Thu Dec 11 21:25:23 2008 -0400 Return-path: Envelope-to: categories-list@mta.ca Delivery-date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:25:23 -0400 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1LAwhL-0005Ob-Ey for categories-list@mta.ca; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:20:07 -0400 Original-Sender: categories@mta.ca Precedence: bulk X-Keywords: X-UID: 58 Original-Lines: 17 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:4752 Archived-At: I am responding to Vaughan's long message (which I won't bother repeating). The AMS has set up its own citation index but we have seen that they too will not include TAC (I am not sure about Cahiers). They have a long-standing and apparently immutable prejudice against category theory and nothing can change that. As for a field as small as category theory setting up its own index, that would seem to be a non-starter. Even if we were to do it, the bureaucrats of the EC would not accept since it would be seen as self-serving. After reading that the Springer journal Homeopathy is indexed, I began to wonder if the publisher pays ISI for inclusion. I am sure that this kind of information is kept secret. (Actually, Robert Dawson has wildly exaggerated the publication of Homeopathy: the truth is that one out of every 10^{100} numbers contains one pixel of ink and the remaining issues are blank.)