Scientists are drowning in a flood of information overload .
Every day ,thousands of scientists studies are published.
Citation analysis ,a method of evaluating how often a research paper is footnoted by other scientist's ,is one way scientists can sort through the torrent of reports to find the most important and influential research.
CITATION ANALYSIS
By :Christopher king
Editor :C.C.Timon
Modern science is a sprawling bustling enterprise .Throughout the world each day ,thousands of scientist report the result of experiments ,studies ,clinical trials ,exploration and invention in thousands of publication .How van anyone hope to keep track of all this research ?How can one follow the progression of ideas and advances within a given field and how can one determine which individuals,institutions and nation as performing the most noteworthy and influential research ?one method for tracking and evaluating research is known as citation analysis.it work because scientists leave an unmistakable trail behind them as they report their work._a trail of footnotes
Science usually proceed by steps or increments ,as scientist advance and build on work that come before .
When scientists prepare papers to be published in specialized journals ,they must fellow the strict custom of acknowledged previous work ,noting in details the ideas finding or advancement from which their new work proceeds .
They do this by including footnotes -also known as references or citation -in their papers .
Each footnote gives credit to previous researcher for a prior achievement and indicates where the achievement was reported .And each footnote constitutes a judgment as to the previous research that scientists themselves view as the most significant and useful.
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