TY - JOUR
T1 - Citation indexing and indexes
AU - Araújo , Paula Carina de
AU - Castanha , Renata Cristina Gutierres
AU - Hjørland, Birger
N1 - Artiklen offentliggjort i ISKO Encyclopedia of Knowledge Organization (online), kommer senere i Knowledge Organization
PY - 2021/3/18
Y1 - 2021/3/18
N2 - A citation index is a bibliographic database that provides citation links between documents. The first modern citation index was suggested by information scientist Eugene Garfield in 1955 and created by him in 1964, and it represents an important innovation to knowledge organization and information retrieval. This article describes citation indexes in general, considering the modern citation indexes, including Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic, Crossref, Dimensions and some special citation indexes and predecessors to the modern citation index like Shepard’s Citations. We present comparative studies of the major ones and survey theoretical problems related to the role of citation indexes as subject access points, recognizing the implications to knowledge organization and information retrieval. Finally, studies on citation behavior are presented and the influence of citation indexes on knowledge organization, information retrieval and the scientific information ecosystem is recognized.
AB - A citation index is a bibliographic database that provides citation links between documents. The first modern citation index was suggested by information scientist Eugene Garfield in 1955 and created by him in 1964, and it represents an important innovation to knowledge organization and information retrieval. This article describes citation indexes in general, considering the modern citation indexes, including Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic, Crossref, Dimensions and some special citation indexes and predecessors to the modern citation index like Shepard’s Citations. We present comparative studies of the major ones and survey theoretical problems related to the role of citation indexes as subject access points, recognizing the implications to knowledge organization and information retrieval. Finally, studies on citation behavior are presented and the influence of citation indexes on knowledge organization, information retrieval and the scientific information ecosystem is recognized.
U2 - 10.5771/0943-7444-2021-1-72
DO - 10.5771/0943-7444-2021-1-72
M3 - Journal article
VL - 48
SP - 58
EP - 87
JO - Knowledge Organization
JF - Knowledge Organization
SN - 0943-7444
IS - 1
ER -