Citeseer was the first citation enhanced bibliographic database which provided free available citation data for the scientific literature. It was therefore the first serious competitior for the kings of citation data ISI/Thomson Scientific. Citseer covered the literature of computer and information science. Started in 1997 at the NEC Research Institute, Princeton, New Jersey it has come a long way. Since it’s inception, the original CiteSeer grew to index over 750,000 documents and served over 1.5 million requests daily, pushing the limits of the system’s capabilities.
The next Generation Citeseer, CiteseerX, is now available for search.
My first impression is a really nice intuitive layout, and a fast search performance. I will keep pointing students to this free resource during my classes on citation analysis.
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