The New Scientist's study of citation behavior reveals 85% of respondents feel under-citing scientific work is a significant problem. When asked if their own work had been ignored in citations, 72% said yes. The New Scientist's news blog entry didn't reveal how many of them feel that they themselves under-cite their colleagues work, but one imagines the practice goes both ways.

In an interview about the results, Geoffrey Bilder acknowledges the problem and suggests that simplifying citiation formats to include just basic metadata and an article identifier like the CrossRef DOI or even PubMed ID could make room for more comprehensive citation lists.

For more, see the complete article.

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Updated June 22, 2009

Genetics and Molecular Research
Mulberry Technologies, Inc.

Last update June 15, 2009

Steklov Mathematical Institute

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Updated June 22, 2009

Total no. participating publishers & societies 2,809
% of non-profit publishers 57%
Total no. participating libraries 1,491
No. journals covered 20,352
No. DOIs registered to date 37,189,729
No. DOIs deposited in previous month 380,419
No. DOIs retrieved (matched references) in previous month 13,082,811
DOI resolutions (end-user clicks) in previous month 26,782,044

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What does it mean to be "indexed?" Content from 27,000 journal titles, conference proceedings, and books are now available in the CrossCheck database. A CrossCheck user who submits a manuscript for duplicate detection will be comparing the submission to 20 million items from other scholarly publishers as well as to content from the open web.

See the CrossCheck web page for more details.

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Chuck Koscher, CrossRef's Director of Technology, begins his term as Chair of the National Information Standards Organization. Here's an exerpt from NISO's press release:

Chuck Koscher, Director of Technology at CrossRef, who was elected last year and has served as Vice Chair during the current term, will become Chair of NISO for the 2009-10 term.
“NISO has a great deal of opportunity before us,” said Koscher, the incoming Chair.

“With recent successes on the Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI) and Shared Electronic Resources Understanding (SERU), new work on single sign-on authentication and Cost of Resource Exchange (CORE), as well as potential projects on XML structures, physical delivery, and e-resource management, NISO is at the forefront of technology issues facing the information community. Helping to lead the organization in this exciting time will be a great honor.”

Please see the NISO Press release for more information.

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