id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-13488 Harter, Stephen P. Citation Indexing--Its Theory and Application in Science, Technology, and Humanities (Book Review) 1980-03-01 3 .pdf application/pdf 1905 101 49 Garfield carefully shows the advantages of the citation index over conventional subject indexes for indexing and for bibliographic searching; these include the lack of need for intellectual analysis in citation indexing, the objectivity of citation indexing, the increase in potential productivity and efficiency in searching, the avoidance of semantic prob- lems and the need for vocabulary standardi- zation in citation indexes, the lack of need-at least at the indexing stage-to worry about the variety of human languages in which papers are published, the precision of the citation index over time, and the abil- ity of the citation index to identify relevant papers across disciplines. These are mighty advantages, leading this reader to become aware of'his underuse of citation indexes for his personal literature searching needs. cache/crl-13488.pdf txt/crl-13488.txt