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Unit 13: Indexing Services and Abstracting (I&A) Periodicals

Pascal Explore, 1985 - (Supercedes Bulletin Signaletique, 1961–1984) 10-issues/year. Notes
Published in several series according to major subjects. Published by the centre
National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre de Documentation et technique, Paris.

13.6.2 Citation Indexes

Citation indexes are unique from the point of view of technique followed. They are based on
citations made in current documents. They follow a novel method of detecting subject relationship
of documents through citations, and are claimed to be a useful tool for subject retrieval.

Notes Citation Index is the brought out by “Institute for Scientific Information” (ISI),
Philadelphia, USA, and its founder is Eugene Garfield.

Example: Following are the example of citation Indexes:

Science Citation Index
Social Sciences Citation Index
Arts and Humanities Citation Index. Philadelphia: ISI 1978

Science Citation Index

(a) Science Citation Index (SCI). Philadelphia: ISI, 1965: It provides access to 3300 leading
scientific and technical journals of the world in all disciplines. Apart from journals some
books are also covered. It is available in various physical formats and media. Printed from
is published 53 times a year. Back issued are available in annual, five year and ten year
cumulations through 1965 from ISI, Philadelphia. DD-ROM version is published since
1988, 4 times a year. Fourth disc is an annual cumulation. Back volumes are available
through 1980.

Notes The SCI comprises several parts like citation index, source index, the permuterm
subject index and the corporate index.

The ‘Citation Index’ provides access to full bibliographic data. It is arranged alphabetically
by cited author.
The ‘Source Index’ is an alphabetical list of authors accompanied by co-authors. It provides
standard bibliographic details of the source items, viz., name of the journal, volume and
issue numbers, year of publication, number of references, accession number of the document
assigned in ISI collection, language etc.
The ‘Permuterm Subject Index’ - it indexes the articles by subject mainly the significant
key world in the title.
The ‘Cooperate Index’ is arranged under the name of the organizations. It provides citation
for all items attributed to the organization and published during the period indexed.

(b) Science Citation Index with Abstracts, 1992 - Monthly: CD-ROM Format is available in
eleven cumulative updates with an annual cumulation. Back volumes are available through
1991.

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