History of Citation Indexing

History of Citation Indexing

Legal Citation indexing originated with a table of cases that Joseph Story began in 1743. For centuries, the history of Legal Citation indexes wes related to the history of print law reports.

The founder of modern citation indexing and citation analysis is Dr. Eugene Gartfield. He was the founder of ISI® (now Thomson Reuters), was deeply involved in the research relating to machine generated indexes in the mid-1950’s and early 1960’s.

Eugene Garfield published his multidisciplinary citation index as the first edition of the Science Citation Index® (SCI®), available since 1963. It is a comprehensive citation index of the scientific journal literature. The Web-based version of that index covers 5,600 journals in more than 150 scientific disciplines.

Chicago Style Citations Online Resources

See Also

Dr. Eugene Garfield Works

Further Reading

https://www.xtimeline.com/timeline/History-of-Citation. A timeline of the history of citation, including Richard White, Justus Moser, Tissot, Home and Gibbon.

Fred Shapiro, Origins of Bibliometrics, Citation Indexing, and Citation Analysis: The Neglected Legal Literature, 43 Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 337 (1992)

James F. Spriggs, II and Thomas G. Hansford, Measuring Legal Change: The Reliability and Validity of Shepard’s Citations, 53 Political Research Quarterly 327 (2000)

J. H. Fowler, T. R. Johnson, J. F. Spriggs II, S. Jeon, and P. J. Wahlbeck, Network Analysis and the Law: Measuring the Legal Importance of Precedents at the U.S. Supreme Court, 15 Political Analysis 324 (2007)

Conclusion

Notes

References and Further Reading

About the Author/s and Reviewer/s

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Abridgment of English History, Citation Tools, Citation to Federal Unpublished Opinions in the Circuit Courts, Education, Legal Citation, Legal citation and the Encyclopedia, List of Legal History Broader Databases, Online Citation, Patents, References Citation, Rousseau, country.


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