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Title changes and impact factor
After a title change, two JCR years must pass before the new title fully replaces the previous title in JCR. In the first year after a journal title change, the new title is listed with an Immediacy Index but no impact factor because the article count for the two preceding…
Research Fronts 2014 : 100 Top Ranked Specialties In The Sciences And Social
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…
The Tao Of Topic Maps
Glossary
A glossary is basically a list of terms and definitions. It can be thought of as a kind of index in which only one type of occurrence is of interest (the one that provides the “definition”), and which therefore includes the occurrence inline (instead of pointing to it via a…
Topic types and multiple indexes
Topics can be categorized according to their kind. In a topic map, any given topic is an instance of zero or more topic types. This corresponds to the categorization inherent in the use of multiple indexes in a book (index of names, index of works, index of places, etc.), and…
Topics, associations and occurrences
The key features of a typical index are thus: topics (identified by their names, of which there may be more than one); associations between topics; and occurrences of topics (pointed to via locators). For each of these constructs it is useful to be able to say something about…