Mapping the output of topical searches in the web of knowledge and the case of Watson-Crick

HistCite is a system that generates chronological maps of subject (topical) collections resulting from searches of the Institute for Scientific Information Web of Science (WoS) or Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index on CD-ROM. WoS export fil...

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Published inInformation technology and libraries Vol. 22; no. 4; pp. 183 - 187
Main Authors Garfield, Eugene, Pudovkin, A.I, Istomin, V.S
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Chicago American Library Association 01.12.2003
Subjects
Academic Libraries
Authors
Bibliographic data bases
Bibliographic Databases
Bibliographic literature
CD-ROM
Citation analysis
Citation indexes
Citations
Cocitation
Computers
Crick, Francis Harry Compton
Editing
Exports
Flow Charts
HistCite
Historiography
Human genetics
Information Retrieval
Information Services
Librarians
Library Personnel
Library science
Mapping
Needs Assessment
Online Searching
Periodicals
Real time
Reference services
Science and technology
Science history
Searching
Social sciences
Watson, James Dewey
Web of Knowledge
Webs
United States > US
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Summary:HistCite is a system that generates chronological maps of subject (topical) collections resulting from searches of the Institute for Scientific Information Web of Science (WoS) or Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index on CD-ROM. WoS export files are created in which all cited references for source documents are captured. These bibliographic collections are processed by HistCite, which generates chronological tables as well as historiographs that highlight the most-cited works in and outside the collection. Articles citing the 1953 primordial Watson-Crick paper on the structure of DNA will be used as a demonstration. Real-time dynamic genealogical historiographs will be shown. HistCite also includes a module for detecting and editing errors or variations in cited references. Export Files of five thousand or more records are processed in minutes on a PC. Ideally the system will be used to help the searcher quickly identify the most significant work on a topic and enable the searcher to trace its year-by-year historical development. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
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ISSN:0730-9295
2163-5226