Citation index

Draft

Definition

• A citation is the textual form in which a document refers to another document. A proper publication features a references section: each entry in this section is a citation. Citation indexing consists into the indexing of the text of each such entry. (SMEAL, retrieved, 17:17, 15 September 2006 (MEST))

Technology

It is very important that teachers (or some other facilitators) explain how such an engine works and/or to engage learners in a formal activity that makes them learn. Most people (including university students) do not take enough time to understand how such specialized engines work.

CiteSeer and Smeal

CiteSeer is both a citation engine and a digital library

CiteSeer is based on the SmealSearch engine. The citation engine offers the following main functionalities:

• Search citations with different query terms (e.g. an author name).
• The result will show references with author, title, date, journal/volume etc.
• Details for each result can be consulted in the context page.

The digital library engine allows

• to search the documents database with keywords.
• The sortable results include a title, a link, a context for the search keywords, number of citations, etc.

CiteSeer also integrates with other sources of metadata such as the [ http://portal.acm.org/ ACM Portal]'s Guide to computing literature and provides [Open archive metadata in turn.

CiteSeer is a service that continously improves and adds new functionalities. For details see: SMEALSearch Help Page and the FAQ

ACM Portal

The Guide to computing literature allows to search publications. Each entry found will display:

• Authors (with links)
• Collaborative colleages (people an author with whom other articles have been published. Note: this is approximative since it will show articles from authors who have the same name.
• A link to similar articles (this is very useful)

The ACM digital library (indexing its own publications) adds:

• Citings (who has cited this article)
• What articles have been consulted by other people who consulted this article (peer-to-peer reading, see social navigation).
• A hierarchical tree of index terms
• Design terms
• Keywords

CiteULike

• CiteULike is a free web-based service to help academics to share, store, and organise the academic papers they are reading.
• Insertion is easy: Adding an article to the personal library is a one click operation. The system automatically extracts the citation details.
• Users can folksonomy kinds of tags.

Search of article titles, tags, author names, abstracts and journal titles with keywords (tags). The results for title and abstract search lists:

• article names and author
• tags for each article

Journal browsing

• lists recent articles

Entries about articles give the following information

• Clickable author names
• Access button to the article
• ID tags used
• Clickable people who have the article in their "library".
• Visualization of related articles with a TouchGraph applet (can hang your browser - DSchneider 15:18, 21 September 2006 (MEST))
• BibTex export of the reference

Links

General links

• Wikipedia: Citation index

Citation indexes

CiteSeer

• CiteSeer home page
• Wikipedia article

ACM Portal, (Access restricted) in part

• ACM Portal

CiteULike

• CiteULike Home Page