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#Garfield
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A citation index is better than manually selected indexing terms
When Eugene Garfield introduced the concept of a citation index for the sciences in 1955, he emphasized its several advantages over traditional subject indexing. Since a citation index records the references in each article indexed, a search can proceed from a known work of…
Citation indexing provides an effective method for representing the structure of scientific research
In “Citation indexes for sociological and historical research,” published in 1963, he stated that citation indexing provided an objective method for defining a field of inquiry. That assertion rested on the same logical foundation that made information retrieval in a citation…