8 Dec
2008
8 Dec
'08
8:53 p.m.
On Friday 05 December 2008, Tim Porter wrote:
On the subject of the ISI citation index, : : It may be that the EMS and AMS should start a ridicularising campaign.
Mathematical Structures in Computer Science (MSCS), a Cambridge UP journal, is soon going to publish an Editors' note: Bibliometrics and the curators of orthodoxy ftp://ftp.di.ens.fr/pub/users/longo/editorsMSCS.pdf This firm critique of Bibliometrics contains also references to several documents on the issue, in particular an excellent text by the Intermational Mathematics Union. Best Giuseppe Longo Editro-in-chief http://www.di.ens.fr/users/longo