Today I checked out ISI' s products. I started with their Cited Reference Search where a number of articles by N Feamster were cited at least once and a few around ten times. I had a little difficulty with this search because even with the article titles expanded they were still abbreviated in a manner I did not recognize.
I moved on to Journal Citation Reports which is where I was reminded of how huge the field of computer science can be. Under the subject search for computer science there were these subdivisions: Artificial Intelligence, Cybernetics, Hardware & Architecture, Information Systems, Interdisciplinary, Software Engineering, and Theory & Methods. Notice no subcategory for networking which is what category I think of when looking over his work. Under Theory and Methods I did find at # 26 the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking which is where the article Stable Policy Routing with Provider Independence was published.
Somewhat irked by the lack of sources Nick Feamster publishes in I tried another track. Still in Journal Citation Reports I looked under Journal titles and brought up the list. While there are a number of ACM and IEEE publications listed, ACM SIGCOMM or SIGMETRICS (or Proceedings of ....) is not listed. These are where most of his work is published.
I had better luck with Scopus which is weird because I don't have access to it. Just using the Author Preview option (and not expecting to get anywhere) I retrieved a lot of info. Under Nick Feamster I found his author id, his h index (4), his publication range (1999-2008), and affiliation history (MIT and Hewlett Packard Laboratories). Things I could see but would need a subscription to get full access to were:
References 393 (his references)
Cited by 77
Co-authors 37
web search 28 (web results, since I couldn't access this I don't know how accurate a search this was)
I liked both ISI and Scopus. These are great resources if you know of a person working in a specific area. I think the main reason the results were so different for my search was due to the journals these resources track.
2 years ago
That was a very astute observation of Web of Science. I think a lot of the more practical journals in his research area are ignored by Web of Science, but Scopus casts a wider net. A new development is that Web of Knowledge will also be tracking conference proceedings - I think Scopus is forcing this development with their competition.
ReplyDeleteScopus? That is a good idea. I'm not exatly sure how you got to that. Maybe I'm being unusually dense today. Would you mind telling me how you found that?
ReplyDeleteI just Googled 'Scopus'. It was mentioned in the written lecture for this week. This is the link http://www.scopus.com/scopus/home.url and click on author preview.
ReplyDeleteScopus sounds like it could be really helpful, even if we don't have real access. I've been trying to find more affiliation information on Dr. Medina with little luck. An h index would be nice too. Thanks!
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