{"id":748,"date":"2007-03-11T16:39:57","date_gmt":"2007-03-11T15:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/2007\/03\/11\/alternatives-to-the-isi-impact-empire\/"},"modified":"2007-03-22T10:29:44","modified_gmt":"2007-03-22T09:29:44","slug":"an-alternative-to-isis-impact-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2007\/03\/an-alternative-to-isis-impact-empire\/","title":{"rendered":"An alternative to ISI’s impact empire"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my experience Google Scholar already shows more counts than ISI Web of Science. A new paper in first monday<\/a> highlights another search engine that allows even truncation of search terms*: Exalead<\/a> is a European (Paris) based search engine which does allow truncation and has a nice interface too.<\/p>\n

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Addendum<\/h3>\n

A new series of papers in the BMJ<\/a> discusses some alarming consequences of “impact” measurements<\/p>\n

\nThe impact factor now has a worrying influence not just on publication of papers but on the science behind them too … One consequence has been to make universities prioritise laboratory based life sciences that produce research published in the highest impact factor journals, causing substantial damage to the clinical research base.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

that goes beyond the previous view of Seglen<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n

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\n CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 17.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In my experience Google Scholar already shows more counts than ISI Web of Science. A new paper in first monday highlights another search engine that allows even truncation of search terms*: Exalead is a European (Paris) based search engine which does allow truncation and has a nice interface too. Addendum A new series of papers … Continue reading An alternative to ISI’s impact empire<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2949,13,791,787,786,790,789,788],"class_list":["post-748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-software","tag-computer-software","tag-history-insights","tag-exalead","tag-google_scholar","tag-isi_web_of_science","tag-search_engine","tag-truncation","tag-web_of_science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}