Truth or Dare: "Lies" and the ISI?

For an interesting and short article about the reliability--or unreliability-- and use of the ISI citation index(or citation indices generally) now a Thompson product see the message and link to the Journal of Cell Biology courtesy of PAMNET a physics listserv.

Poor Eugene Garfield!


----- Message from Carol Hutchins on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 09:06:19 -0500 -----
Subject:
GENERAL: accuracy of Thomson data
The Suber blog has a pointer to an interesting editorial in the J. Cell
Biology related to how articles are counted by Thomson ISI.
Rather than repost here, I'll give the reference to JCB. (Worthwhile
for the cartoon alone!)
http://www.jcb.org/cgi/content/full/179/6/1091