Set Your Cites High: The Value of Quality Citation Information

摘要

We've always thought that when listing the number of articles that cite a particular work, citation databases have actually counted all of those articles and retain a master list. Perhaps that goes along with us being a little retro. Dave wears a Paul McCartney and Wings shirt on Casual Friday. Amy still does Jane Fonda's Workout on VHS. We can name that Brady Bunch episode in one scene, and if you want to know the ingredients of a Big Mac, we will sing the song. So please find it in your heart to excuse us for being either old-fashioned, naieve, optimistic, or all three for our surprised amazement when we stumbled upon this well-hidden caveat on Google Scholar: What,what? Call us crazy, but we thought that Google could actually produce a list of articles that cite an article of interest, with the number of articles in that list equal to the given number. If we got 1,759 cited references, we thought that we could page through the list to see all 1,759 if we so chose.