Options for presenting search results. Part 2: options for citation searching
| Date | 01 August 2005 |
| Pages | 412-418 |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1108/14684520510617857 |
| Published date | 01 August 2005 |
| Author | Péter Jacsó |
| Subject Matter | Information & knowledge management,Library & information science |
SAVVY SEARCHING
Options for presenting
search results
Part 2: options for citation searching
Pe
´ter Jacso
´
University of Hawaii, Manoa, Hawaii, USA
Abstract
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the growing importance of information available
when searching for cited papers
Design/methodology/approach – Looks at the different formats available when searching for
cited papers and how these formats can be manipulated to provide more relevant information.
Findings – Although progress has been made to provide user-friendly citation information, it seems
there are more features that might prove useful that have not as yet been implemented.
Originality/value – Provides an overview of various options available for searching for cited
articles and any relevant information.
Keywords References services, S earch engines, Information retrieval
Paper type General review
The previous column of Savvy Searching discussed the common output options
available in various online information services. Searching for cited and citing
references has its own special output requirements which help the users to find the
most cited papers by an author, journal or on a subject. Currently users have limited
options as to the layout, content and sorting of citation-focused search results. Even the
best online services with the most advanced citation search options treat cited
references and other citat ion-related informa tion as second class citizens in
“BiblioLand”. As citation searching gains acceptance, there will be a growing
demand to display information prominently about the absolute and relative citedness
of the papers, and to sort the search results by citedness score (discussed in an earlier
column). The best current solutions are reviewed here.
For decades the family of Science Citation Index, the Social Sciences Citation Index,
and the Arts & Humanities Citation Index of the Institute for Scientific Information
(ISI) represented the only databases which included the list of cited references. The
introduction of the Web of Science (WoS) service on the Web of Knowledge (Wo K)
platform a few years ago brought out much more from this unique database than the
few existing implementations by online aggregators (DataStar, DIALOG, DIMDI).
Others also realized the immense advantage of using cited and citing references to
complement subject searches, and to discover scholarly papers which would not be
found by subject searching for several reasons. Elsevier jumped on the bandwagon
with vigour by launching the Scopus database. Its tagline emphasizes that it is the
largest indexing/abstracting database, but its special value is in the close to eight
million records enhanced with about 180 million cited references. The majority of these
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OIR
29,4
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Online Information Review
Vol. 29 No. 4, 2005
pp. 412-418
qEmerald Group Publishing Limited
1468-4527
DOI 10.1108/14684520510617857
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