Comments on: The mysterious ways of Web of Science http://wowter.net/2008/12/31/the-mysterious-ways-of-web-of-science/ Comments on the library and information science world Thu, 09 Sep 2010 20:29:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3 By: WoW!ter http://wowter.net/2008/12/31/the-mysterious-ways-of-web-of-science/#comment-669 WoW!ter Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:50:21 +0000 http://wowter.net/2008/12/31/the-mysterious-ways-of-web-of-science/#comment-669 @Steven, That's a revealing answer! Well I sincerely do hope our efforts show to ISI that they have to act upon this matter. I'll keep it on my radar. @Steven,

That’s a revealing answer! Well I sincerely do hope our efforts show to ISI that they have to act upon this matter. I’ll keep it on my radar.

]]> By: Steven Salzberg http://wowter.net/2008/12/31/the-mysterious-ways-of-web-of-science/#comment-668 Steven Salzberg Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:49:35 +0000 http://wowter.net/2008/12/31/the-mysterious-ways-of-web-of-science/#comment-668 Hi Wouter! You ask a very good question - how did I find all those citations for the Arabidopsis genome paper at ISI's website? Well, I have to admit that I first tried the same things you did - using wildcards around the consortium name ("Arabidopsis Genome Initiative"), and I also got the zero citations hit. But I knew this paper had 1000's of citations - it had to! So I cheated. I wrote directly to the staff at ISI, with whom I've corresponded before, and they did a bunch of different searches for me, with different wildcards. They took a union of all the hits (ignoring double hits) and that's how I got the total of 2,689. I still doubt that this is the true total, but it's the best I could do, and it seems about right given the important of this genome to the entire plant biology community. I also asked ISI to try to fix this problem, but I'm not optimistic that they will - it's probably difficult for them and will require significant changes in their software. Hi Wouter! You ask a very good question - how did I find all those citations for the Arabidopsis genome paper at ISI’s website? Well, I have to admit that I first tried the same things you did - using wildcards around the consortium name (”Arabidopsis Genome Initiative”), and I also got the zero citations hit. But I knew this paper had 1000’s of citations - it had to!

So I cheated.

I wrote directly to the staff at ISI, with whom I’ve corresponded before, and they did a bunch of different searches for me, with different wildcards. They took a union of all the hits (ignoring double hits) and that’s how I got the total of 2,689. I still doubt that this is the true total, but it’s the best I could do, and it seems about right given the important of this genome to the entire plant biology community.

I also asked ISI to try to fix this problem, but I’m not optimistic that they will - it’s probably difficult for them and will require significant changes in their software.

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