The Future of Citation Analysis

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Jeffrey M. Perkel: The Future of Citation Analysis, The Scientist October 28, 2005

An article like this, which compares between the usefulness of Google Scholar and Thomson Scientific's Web of Science, can only be considered a snapshot, partially because Google Scholar remains in development, and partially because there is an ongoing, though gradual, migration of scientific work from the closed to the open web. More...