George, Has anyone brought this to the attention of MR? jim Janelidze wrote:
Dear Colleagues,
I think John asks a very good question! However:
While the Thomson Scientific's "Science Citation Index" could be related to some commercial matters that I do not understand, Mathematical Reviews in just Mathematical Reviews,
and for each of us it has "Author Profile",
and among other things it gives you the total number of citations on your papers,
and if you click on "Citations", it lists citations,
and below the list there is "Reference List Journals",
and if you click on that, you will see a lot of journal titles,
but not "Theory and Applications of Categories", not "Cahiers", and not "Applied Categorical Structures".
That is, according to Mathematical Reviews, the citations in Category Theory journals are not citations!
I am sure this is not what Mathematical Reviews really wanted to do, and that it must be corrected first of all.
George Janelidze
----- Original Message ----- From: "John Baez" <john.c.baez@gmail.com> To: <categories@mta.ca> Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 7:23 PM Subject: categories: Science Citation Index
Dear category theorists -
Thomson Scientific runs the well-known "Science Citation Index", which "provides researchers, administrators, faculty, and students with quick, powerful access to the bibliographic and citation information they need to find relevant, comprehensive research data". I believe data from this
index
is used in tenure and promotion decisions at some universities.
I just heard that "Theory and Applications of Categories" and "Cahiers"
are
not listed on the Science Citation Index, while - for example - Elsevier's journal "Homeopathy" is listed there.
Is this true? Is there some way to improve the situation?
Best, jb