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International Journal of Epidemiology 2006 35(5):1130-1135; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl196
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2006; all rights reserved.

Commentary

Commentary: The ‘bibliographic impact factor’ and the still uncharted sociology of epidemiology

Miquel Porta1,2,3,*, Esteve Fernandez4,5 and Francisco Bolúmar6

1 Institut Municipal d'Investigació Mèdica, Barcelona, Spain
2 School of Medicine, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
3 School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
4 Institut Català d'Oncologia, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
5 Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Catalonia, Spain
6 School of Medicine, Universidad de Alcalá, Madrid, Spain

* Corresponding author. School of Medicine, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Carrer del Dr Aiguader 80, E-08003 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. E-mail: mporta@imim.es

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It is 1955, a time of ‘mechanical devices’ and ‘punched cards’,1 before microcomputers, of course, before the ‘impact factor’. 1955: Bill Gates and Steve Jobs are born (Box 1). It is only 50 years ago: Eugene Garfield first proposes a bibliographic ‘indexing’ or ‘citation’ system for scientific literature.1 His paper advocates a new citation index—as opposed to traditional subject indexing—based on a clever and innovative concept—today not much en vogue—: the association-of-ideas. An association-of-ideas index. Of course, ‘nothing could substitute for extensive reading, but . . . ’ (page 31).


Box 1 The ‘calendar year’ of 1955, some events

Pentagon announces plan to develop intercontinental ballistic missiles armed with nuclear weapons

United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends the first advisors to South Vietnam

Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

The Salk polio vaccine is introduced

McDonald's first franchised fast food restaurant . . . [Full Text of this Article]

 

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