Eugene Garfield

TL;DR: The fact that English is the internationally accepted language of research communication raises the issue of a language barrier in two senses: first, those whose native language is not English risk being unaware of major findings reported in foreign languages, especially the Japanese and Russian literature, unless they become proficient in at least one other language as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: The availability of these services now makes practicable several techniques, highly valuable in helping to assist projects from initial conception of an idea through utilization of the results after publication, and these techniques also provide new facta for use in evaluating the work of individuals and organizations.

TL;DR: HistCite is a system that generates chronological maps of subject (topical) collections resulting from searches of the Institute for Scientific Information Web of Science (WoS) or Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts and Humanities Citation Index on CD-ROM, which uses a visual data-mining method based on the analysis of citation links between various documents in an academic library.

TL;DR: The analysis suggests that in basic science fields such as physics or molecular biology the percentage of “authoritative” references decreases as bibliographies become shorter, and when basic scientists are selective in referencing behavior, references to “ authority documents are dropped more readily than other types.

TL;DR: Because papers of average lengths in various sciences have the same number of references, it is concluded that the citation counts to them can be intercompared within that accuracy.