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Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Thomson Reuters' Announces Book Citation Index

I was honored when Information Today's NewsBreaks editor (and good friend) Paula Hane asked me to do a preliminary look at the newly announced Book Citation Index. I was able to interview Jim Testa, Thomson Reuters Vice President responsible for content for all of their citation indexes. The resulting article was the first published commentary that Jim or Thomson Reuters made about this new project. We are bound to be hearing more about this in coming months.

The University Libraries regularly offer free workshops for our students, staff and faculty on using citation databases and doing citation research. If you are a part of our community, please consider attending one of these before starting a citation project.

This isn't my first foray into citation research. Here are just a few other recent articles that might be of interest to other hard-core citation searchers:

Citation Research Ready for Prime Time.SEARCHER.2010.pdfSEARCHER 18(6): 20-31, 51, July/August 2010.

"Research Evaluation & citation analysis.pdf," The Electronic Library 27(3): 361-375, 2009.

"Web-Based Tools for Citation Data Management ," SEARCHER 16(5): 18-21, 50-4, May 2008.
Web-based citation tools.pdf

"Thomson Scientific and the Citation Indexes: An Interview With Keith MacGregor and James Testa," SEARCHER 15(10): 8, 10, 12-17, November/December 2007.
2007Testa-MacGregor Interview.pdfCitation Research Ready for Prime Time.SEARCHER.2010.pdf

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