Citation Indexes for Science

Garfield, E. (1955). Citation Indexes for Science: A New Dimension in Documentation through Association of Ideas. Science, 122(3159), 108-111.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1955

Volume

122

Issue

3159

Pages

108-111

DOI

10.1126/science.122.3159.108

DOI registrant

American Association for the Advancement of Science

Link

https://doi.org/10.1126/science.122.3159.108

Cited from

computer_science

Cited by

2 citations across 2 artifacts.

Each citation links to the sentence it supports in the citing article.

Primes

• Index
  • It is a key-to-location mapping — it stores not the data but pointers (page numbers, file offsets, row IDs, citation IDs

    This sourceOriginates the citation index — a side table mapping cited-work IDs to citing-work locations, an inverted key-to-location pointer structure.

Mechanisms

• Citation Index
  • The citation index solves it by relationship: it lists every later work that cites that foundational paper, so following the forward-citation links walks the researcher straight up the descent line to recent work, regardless of how the terminology drifted.

    This sourceProposes a citation index that retrieves later works through their references to an earlier paper, allowing forward tracing beyond the limits of subject terminology.

Verification

Does it exist? Confirmed. This work's DOI resolves to a registered record, which fixes its identity. That is all it fixes.

Does it back the claim? Not recorded. Neither this nor any other of the 2 citations of this work carries a recorded support check.

Support is checked per citation rather than per work — the same source can be cited soundly in one article and wrongly in another. Per-citation recording began recently, so a citation with no recorded check is a gap in the record rather than evidence it went unchecked.

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