IJE Advance Access originally published online on September 19, 2006
International Journal of Epidemiology 2006 35(5):1127-1128; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl190
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Commentary: Fifty years of citation indexing
Chairman Emeritus, Thomson ISI, 3501 Market Street, Philadelphia PA 19104, USA
E-mail: garfield@codex.cis.upenn.edu
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About 30 years ago we began the series called This week's Citation Classic. Over the next 15 years, we asked thousands of authors to write commentaries on these highly cited papers (www.citationclassics.org). So I was surprised to be asked to do the same for my 1955 paper in Science.1 As a confirmed citationist, I must point out that it is not my most cited work. It is my 1972 paper in Science,2 on using citation analysis to evaluate journals,
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