The 50 most cited chemists during the period 1981-1997
According to ISI, the following list gives the 50 most cited chemists; http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/citation.html Interesting that the top 10 includes many computational chemists, and that crystallographers feature highly. It is claimed that this list almost certainly includes the names of 6-10 Nobel laureates-to-be! I wonder what this list says about a) what citations mean anyway (and even more controversially, what the "impact factor" of cites per paper means) b) Does it say anything about what people consider the important areas of chemistry have been, or will be? c) Is it worth drawing any demographic conclusions from these names? d) I wonder when/if the ISI will consider hyperlinked citations on the Web to qualify for their count!! Dr Henry Rzepa, Dept. Chemistry, Imperial College, LONDON SW7 2AY; mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk; Tel (44) 171 594 5774; Fax: (44) 171 594 5804. URL: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/ chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To post to list: mailto:chemweb@ic.ac.uk Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message; (u)nsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk)
At 13:30 29/10/1997 +0100, you wrote:
According to ISI, the following list gives the 50 most cited chemists;
http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/citation.html
Interesting that the top 10 includes many computational chemists, and that crystallographers feature highly. It is claimed that this list almost certainly includes the names of 6-10 Nobel laureates-to-be!
Who care about Nobel Laureates-to-be except the Laureates-to-be ? The non-Laureates-to-be are more numerous and ISI has understood that the 627.871 Chemists would like to know if at least they are among the 10858 which were cited 500 times or more and at which rank they are. The very intelligent ISI analysts have fixed the cost of this information at 1000 US $...... Are we 1000 Chemists in this list ? I can send 1 $ :-). Armel Le Bail, Laboratoire des Fluorures, CNRS UPRES-A 6010 Faculte des Sciences, Universite du Maine, 72085 Le Mans Cedex 9, FRANCE Web : http://fluo.univ-lemans.fr:8001/ Tel : (33) 02 43 83 33 47 chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To post to list: mailto:chemweb@ic.ac.uk Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message; (u)nsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk)
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