Essays of an Information Scientist:1985

Volume 8

Ghostwriting and Other Essays

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Foreword xiii     Estelle Brodman      pdf file available
Preface    xix     Eugene Garfield      pdf file available
 






1985


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1 3-12    . 7 Jan 85    . 1 Is Shorthand the route to success in  science or anything else? Part  1.  History and Evolution of Stenographic Languages. 
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2 3-13 14 Jan 85 11 Is Shorthand the route to success in  science or anything else? Part  2.  Shorthand Technology -- From Stenotype to Computer-Aided Transcription. 
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3 3-11 21 Jan 85 21 When information overload is too much of a good thing.
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. . Reprint 23 "Too much of a good thing?     Dilemmas of an Information Society."   Donald N. Michael. Technol.  Forecast.  Soc. Change 25:347-54, 1984. 
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4 3-9 28 Jan 85 30 If you think you're ready to search  Online, here's how to use SciSearch. 
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5 3-15 4 Feb 85 37 The 250 most-cited Citation Classics from the essential decade: 1955-1964
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6 3-12 11 Feb 85 50 How to use the Arts & Humanities  Citation Index (A&HCI) and what's in it for you and your mate!
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7 3-10 18 Feb 85 60 The 1983 Nobel Prize. Part 2. Myth or  reality: Premature discovery is not the same as being ignored!  Barbara McClintock and the Prize in Medicine. 
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8 3-11 25 Feb 85 68 The 1983 Nobel Prizes. Part 3. Economics and Literature Awards go to Gerard Debreu and William Golding.
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9 3-12 4 Mar 85 77 Acid Rain. Part 1. What is it and what  does it do?
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10 3-11 11 Mar 85 87 Acid Rain. Part 2.  Public issues and proposed solutions.
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11 3-11 18 Mar 85 96 Journal selection for Current  Contents: Editorial merit vs.   political pressure. 
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12 3-16 25 Mar 85 105 The 1981 Most-Cited Chemistry Papers.  Part 1. Pure and Synthetic Chemistry. Or, should I say, most-cited papers published in 1981 in the Journal of  the American Chemical Society.
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13 3-15 1 Apr 85 119 Allergies are nothing to sneeze at: Part 1. Epidemiology and Etiology. 
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14 3-10 8 Apr 85 132 The articles most cited in the SCI from 1961 to 1982. 6. More Citation Classics to think  about.
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15 3-13 15 Apr 85 140 Allergies are nothing to sneeze at. Part 2. Diagnosis and Treatment.
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16 3-11 22 Apr 85 151 The 1985 NAS Award for Excellence in Scientific Reviewing goes to Ira  Herskowitz for his Reviews of Phage  Biology. 
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17 3-6 29 Apr 85 160 Pageless documentation: or, what a  difference a page makes. 
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. . Reprint 162 The Implications of pageless  documentation (3:1939-1979). Roy P. Fairfield. Chronical of Higher  Education, p.24, May 5, 1982. 
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18 3-12 6 May 85 164 From Tonic to Psoriasis: Stalking celery's secrets. 
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19 3-15 13 May 85 174 Child Safety. Part 2. What governments are doing about injury prevention. 
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20 3-12 20 May 85 187  The Articles most cited in the SCI from 1961 to 1982. 7. Another 100  Citation Classics: The Watson-Crick Double Helix has its turn.
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21 3-18 27 May 85 197 Journal Citation Studies. 45. Surgery Journals: Another operation in Citation Analysis.
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22 3-12 3 Jun 85 213 Drycleaning. Part 1. The process and its history: From starch to finish. 
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23 3-11 10 Jun 85 223 Drycleaning. Part 2. Commercial history and social impacts: Ironing out some pressing problems.
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24 3-11 17 Jun 85 232 In Tribute to Derek John de Solla Price: A Citation Analysis of  Little Science, Big Science. 
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25 3-9 24 Jun 85 241 George Sarton: The father of the History of Science. Part 1. Sarton's  early life in Belgium. 
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26 3-8 1 Jul 85 248 George Sarton: The father of the History of Science. Part 2. Sarton  shapes a new discipline. 
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27 3-13 8 Jul 85 254 Remembering the Holocaust, Part 1. 
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. . Reprint 256 Men in extreme conditions: Some medical and psychological aspects of  the Auschwitz Concentration  Camp.  Tomas Radil-Weiss. Psychiatry   46:259-269, 1983. 
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28 3-13 15 Jul 85 265 Remembering the Holocaust, Part 2
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. . Reprint 271 Should the Nazi research data  be cited?  Kristine Moe. Hastings  Center Report December, 1984.   Institute of Society, Ethics, and the Life  Sciences, 360 Broadway, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY 10706.
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29 3-11 22 Jul 85 276 Meditation, learning, and creativity. Part 1. The practice and physiologic effects of meditation.
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30 3-10 29 Jul 85 285 Meditation, learning, and creativity. Part 2. Can Meditation Increase Learning Power and Creativity? 
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31 3-11 5 Jul 85 293 When the apes speak, linguists listen. Part 1. The Ape Language Studies. 
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32 3-11 12 Jul 85 302 When the apes speak, linguists listen. Part 2.  What the critics say.
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33 3-11 19 Jul 85 311 The articles most cited in the SCI from 1961 to 1982. 8. Ninety-eight more classic papers from Unimolecular Reaction Velocities to  Natural Opiates: The changing frontiers of science.
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34 3-9 26 Jul 85 320 Origins of Current Contents, ISI, and computer-Aided information  retrieval. How it all began at the Welch Medical Library Indexing Project. 
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35 3-14 2 Sep 85 327 The 1981 most-cited chemistry papers.  Part 2. Highlighting the arbitrary boundaries between chemistry and  physics.
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36 3-11 9 Sep 85 339 Water chlorination. Part 1. Water, water almost everywhere, but is it fit to drink?
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37 3-14 16 Sep 85 348 Water Chlorination. Part 2. Searching  for solutions in troubled waters -- A worldwide perspective. 
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38 3-10 23 Sep 85 360 The integrated SCI-Mate software system.  Part 1. Combining  File Management, Online Access, and  Searching with Manuscript Editing. 
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39 3-13 30 Sep 85 368 Science Goes to the Dogs and Other Tales: up close and personal with cartoonist Sidney Harris. 
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40 3-9 7 Oct 85 379 Information a la carte: Custom Contents and the new ASCA cater to your current-awareness
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41 3-8 14 Oct 85 386 More for Your Money: Technology,   marketing, and hard work help ISI beat inflation and the information  explosion. 
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42 3-13 21 Oct 85 392 Allergies are nothing to sneeze at. Part 3. Behavioral manifestations.
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43 3-9 28 Oct 85 403 Uses and misuses of citation frequency.
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44 3-8 4 Nov 85 410 Contemporary Classics in the life sciences: An autobiographical feast.
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45 3-18 11 Nov 85 416 The 1984 Nobel Prize in Medicine is awarded to Niels K. Jerne, Cesar Milstein, and Georges J.F. Kohler for their contributions to immunology.
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46 3-14 18 Nov 85 432 The 1984 Nobel Prize in Physics goes  to Carlo Rubbia and Simon van der Meer; Bruce Merrifield is awarded the Chemistry Prize. 
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47 3-18 25 Nov 85 444 The 1983 Articles most cited in 1983  and 1984. 1. Life Sciences. 
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48 3-11 2 Dec 85 460 Ghostwriting - The spectrum from ghostwriter to reviewer to editor to co-author.
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49 3-13 9 Dec 85 469 The 1984 Nobel Prizes in Economics and Literature are Awarded to Sir Richard  Stone for Pioneering Systems of National Accounting and to Jaroslav Seifert, the National Poet of   Czechoslovakia.
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50 3-19 16 Dec 85 480 The 1983 articles most cited in 1983 and 1984. 2. Physical Sciences.
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51-52 3-17 23-30 Dec 85 497 The 1982 Chemistry articles most cited, 1982 - 1984. 
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. . . 513 Cited Author Index
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. . . 533 Subject Index
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