Essays of an Information Scientist:1983

Volume 6

Table of Contents


Foreword xiii     V. V. Nalimov     pdf file available
Preface  xvii     Eugene Garfield    pdf file available
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1983

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1 5-9. 3 Jan 83 1 Junk Mail and Targeted Direct Mail  Marketing: There is a difference! 
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2 5-11 10 Jan 83  6 Idiosyncrasies and Errors, or the terrible things journals do to us. 
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3 5-8 17 Jan 83 13 Is the Electronic Information industry a threat to conventional    publishing? -- An interview with Kinokuniya Ltd., a leading
Japanese bookseller and information  company. 
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4 5-14 24 Jan 83 17 The Awards of Science : Beyond the Nobel Prize. Part 1. The determinants of prestige.
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5 5-8 31 Jan  83 27 The 1955-1964 Science Citation Index Cumulation -- A Major New Bibliographic Tool for Historians of Science and All Others Who Need Precise Information Retrieval for the Age of Space and Molecular Biology.
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6 5-11 7 Feb 83 31 Child Care: An investment in the future. Part 1. An overview of corporate child care programs and the effects of day care on young children.
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7 5-13 14 Feb 83 38 Child Care: An Investment in the Future. Part 2. The ISI Caring Center for Children and Parents.
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9 5-10 21 Feb 83 47 The impact of hospital libraries on the quality and cost of health care delivery.
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10 5-15 7 Mar 83 63 The 1980 Articles Most Cited in 1980  and 1981. 1. Life Sciences. 
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11 5-10 14 Mar 83 74 The New ISI Fellowships Honor Outstanding Librarians and Graduate Students in the Library and  Information Sciences. 
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12 5-12 21 Mar 83 80 Introducing Sci-Mate - A menu-package for online and offline information retrieval. Part 1. The Sci-Mate Personal Data Manager.
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13 5-12 28 Mar 83 88 You Don't Need an Online Computer to Run SDI Profiles Offline! So Why Haven't You Asked for ASCA --  The ISI Selective Citation Alert? 
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14 5-15 4 Apr 83 96 Introducing Sci-Mate - A menu-driven Microcomputer Software 
Package for Online and Offline Information Retrieval. Part 2. The  Sci-Mate Universal Online  Searcher. 
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15 5-18 11 Apr 83 107 The dilemma of prolongevity research - must we age before we die, or if we don't, will we?
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16 5-14 18 Apr 83 121 The 1982 John Scott Award Goes to Jack Fishman and Harold Blumberg for synthesis and investigation of Naloxone. 
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17 5-12 25 Apr 83 131 How to use Journal Citation Reports including a special salute to the Johns Hopkins Medical Journal.
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18 5-9 2 May 83 139 The 1983 NAS Award for Excellence in Scientific Reviewing goes
Goes to Michael Ellis Fisher for his Reviews of the  Theory of Equilibrium Critical Phenomena. 
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19 5-12 9 May 83 144 Quality Control at ISI: A Piece of  Your Mind can help us in our quest  for error-free bibliographic  information. 
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20 5-16 16 May 83 152 The 1980 Articles Most Cited in 1980 and 1981.  2. Physical Sciences. 
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21 5-12 23 May 83 164 They Stand on the Shoulders of  Giants: Sol Spiegelman, a Pioneer in Molecular Biology. 
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22 5-10 30 May 83 172 Sleep Disorders. Part 1. Are we  ignoring snoring? 
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23 5-11 6 Jun 83 178 Sleep Disorders. Part 2. Sleep Apnea  -- When Snoring is the Symptom, Not  the Disease. 
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24 5-7 13 Jun 83 185 Help! What would you do with three million journals?
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25 5-13 20 Jun 83 188 What do we know about the group of mental disorders called Schizophrenia? Part 1. Etiology.
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26 5-11 27 Jun 83 197 Scott Adams and Medical Bibliography in an age of discontinuity -- A tribute to a visionary leader in the field of Medical Information.
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27 5-16 4 Jul 83 204 What do we know about the group of mental disorders called Schizophrenia? Part 2. Diagnosis and Treatment.
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28 5-11 11 Jul 83 216 The Tyranny of the Horn -- automobile thatis. 
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29 5-10 18 Jul 83 223 The Poetry-Science Connection. 
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30 5-12 25 Jul 83 229 How sweet it is - The ACS Patterson-Crane Award.  Reflections on the Reward System of Science. 
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31 5-14 1  Aug 83 237 Spiders and the cobwebs of  myth about them.
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32 5-10 8 Aug 83 247 Striking Back at Graffiti. 
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33 5-15 15 Aug 83 253 Third World Research. Part 1. Where it is published, and how often it is cited.
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. . Reprint 254 Mapping science in the Third World. Part 1. Garfield, E. Science and Public Policy, 10(3):112-27, June 1983.
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34 5-16 22 Aug 83 264 Third World Research. Part 2.  High impact journals, most-cited articles and most active areas of research.
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. . Reprint 265 Mapping science in the Third World. Part 2. Garfield, E. Science and Public Policy, 10(3):112-27, June 1983.
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35 5-15 29 Aug 83 276 The 1980 Chemistry articles most-cited in 1980-1982.
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36 5-10 5 Sep 83 287 Cleft lip and palate: Good news, bad news.
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37 5-12 12 Sep 83 293 Journal Citation Studies. 40.   Anthropology Journals -- What they  cite and what cites them. 
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38 5-15 19 Sep 83 301 The 1981 Articles Most Cited in 1981  and 1982. 1. Life Sciences. 
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39 5-11 26 Sep 83 312 Robert K. Merton -- Author and  Editor. Part 1. 
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. . Reprint 314 Citation measures of the  influence of Robert K. Merton.  Part 1.
Gieryn T.L., ed. Science and Social Structure: a festschrift for  Robert Merton, New York: New York Academy of Sciences, 1980. p.61-74.
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40 5-15 3 Oct 83 319 Robert K. Merton - Author and Editor. Part 2.
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. . Reprint 321 Citation Measures of the influence of Robert K. Merton. Part 2. Gieryn T.L., ed. Science and Social Structure: a festschrift for  Robert K. Merton, New York: New  York Academy of Sciences, 1980.p.61-74. 
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41 5-12 10 Oct 83 330 How IFSEA and other editors' associations are helping to professionalize scientific editing.
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42 5-13 17 Oct 83 338 Is your journal "up front" with your address? or, the saga of the incomplete address. Part 1.
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43 5-11 24 Oct 83 347 Is your journal "up front" with your address? or, the saga of the incomplete address. Part 2.
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44 5-13 31 Oct 83 354 How to use Citation Analysis for  faculty evaluations, and when is it relevant? Part 1. 
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45 5-14 7 Nov 83 363 How to use Citation Analysis for  faculty evaluations, and when is it relevant? Part 2.
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46 5-15 14 Nov 83 373 The 1981 Articles Most Cited in 1981 and 1982. 2. Physical Sciences. 
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47 5-16 21 Nov 83 384 What's in a Name? The eponymic route to immortality. 
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48 5-12 28 Nov 83 396 Child Safety. Part 1. So your  children will not be victims. 
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49 5-13 5 Dec 83 404 Artificial Intelligence: Using computers to think about thinking. Part 1. Representing Knowledge. 
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50 5-13 12 Dec 83 413 The 1982 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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51 5-11 19 Dec 83 423 Science communication and the continuing mission of ISI Press.
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52 5-17 26 Dec 83 430  Artificial Intelligence: using computers to think about thinking.  Part 2. Some practical applications of AI. 
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APPENDIX

 
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. . Reprint  444 The Preparation of Subject-Heading lists by Automatic Punched Card Techniques (Reprinted from J.Doc. 10:1-10,1954). 
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. . Reprint 454 Preliminary Report on the mechanical analysis of information by use of  the 101 Statistical Punched Card  Machine (Reprinted from Amer. Doc. 5:7-12, 1954.) 
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. . Reprint 459 The Preparation of Printed Indexes by
                                   Automatic Punched-Card Techniques    (Reprinted from Amer. Doc.  6:68-76, 1955.) 
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. . Reprint 468 Citation Indexes for Science: A new dimension in documentation through association of ideas (Reprinted
from Science 122:108-11, 1955.) 
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. . Reprint 472 Breaking the Subject Index Barrier --a Citation Index for Chemical Patents (Reprinted from J. Pat.  Off.Soc. 39:583-95, 1957). 
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. . Reprint 485 AMFIS -- The Automatic Microfilm   Information System (With Emik A. Avakian) (Reprinted from Spec. Libr. 48: 145-8, 1957). 
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. . Reprint 489 Chemico-Linguistics: Computer  translation  of chemical
nomenclature (Reprinted from   Nature192:192, 1961). 
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. . Reprint 492 New Factors in the evaluation of  scientific literature through Citation Indexing (With Irving H.  Sher) (Reprinted from  Amer.Doc. 14:195-201, 1963). 
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. . Reprint 499 Citation Indexing: A natural science  literature retrieval system for the Social Sciences (Reprinted from Amer. Behav. Sci 7(10):58-61, 1964). 
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. . Reprint 503 New tools for improving and evaluating the effectiveness of research (with Irving H. Sher) (Reprinted from Yovits MC, Gilford  DM, Wilcox RH, Staveley E & Lemer HD, eds. Proceedings of the Conference on Research Program Effectiveness, 27-29 July 1965, Washington, DC. New York: Gordon and Breach 1966. p. 135-46). 
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. . Reprint 514 ASCA (Automatic Subject Citation  Alert): A new personalized Current Awareness Service for scientists (With Irving H. Sher) (Reprinted from Amer. Behav. 
Sci 10(5):29-32, 1967"). 
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. . Reprint  518 Primordial Concepts, Citation  Indexing, and Historio-Bibliography  (Reprinted from J. Libr. Hist. 
2:235-49, 1967). 
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. . Reprint 533 ISI's Experiences with ASCA -- A Selective dissemination System (With Irving H. Sher) (Reprinted from J. Chem. Doc. 7:147-53, 1967.
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. . Reprint 540 "World Brain" or "Memex?" Mechanical  and intellectual requirements for Universal Bibliographic Control (Reprinted from The Foundations of Access to Knowledge.Syracuse, NY:  Syracuse University Press. 1968, p. 169-96). 
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. . Reprint 548 Citation Indexes (With Melvin  Weinstock) (Reprinted from  Encyclopedia of Library and  Information Science. New York: Dekker, 1971. Vol 5. p.16-40). 
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. . Reprint 573 Significant Journals of Science  (Reprinted from Nature  264:609-15, 1976). 
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. . Reprint 580 Citation Data as Science Indicators   (With Morton V. Malin and Henry Small) (Reprinted from Elkana Y, 
Lederberg J, Merton RK, Thackray A,  Zuckerman H. eds. Toward a Metric of Science: The Advent of science indicators. New York: Wiley, 1978. p.179-207). 
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. . Reprint 609 2001: An Information Society?  (Reprinted  from J. Inform. Sci 1:209-15, 1979). 
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. . Reprint 616 Current Contents: Its impact  on Scientific Communication (Reprinted from Interdisciplin. Sci. Rev. 4:318-23, 1979.) 
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. . Reprint 623 Is Information Retrieval in the Arts and Humanities Inherently Different from that in Science? The Effect that ISI's Citation Index for the  Arts Humanities is Expected to Have on Future Scholarship(Reprinted from Libr. Quarterly 50:40-57, 1980). 
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. . Reprint 641 Is Information Retrieval in the Arts and Humanities Inherently Different from that in Science? The Effect
that ISI's Citation Index for the Arts Humanities is Expected to Have on Future Scholarship (Reprinted from Libr. Quarterly 50:40-57, 1980). 
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. . Reprint 644 Talking Science (Review of "The foreign language barrier: problems in scientific communication" by J.A.Large) (Reprinted from Nature 303:554, 1983).  (Essays/Vol:6)pdf file available
. . Reprint 645 In Memoriam (a tribute to Derek J.  deSolla  Price) (Reprinted from  Inform. Today, Premiere  issue, November 1983, p. 31. 
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. . . 647 Cited Author Index
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. . . 663 Subject Index 
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