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Citation Classics from Social Indicators ResearchCitation Classics: The Idea and the Collection

Citation Classics from Social Indicators Research: Citation Classics: The Idea and the Collection 1. Citation Classics: The Idea and the Collection ALEX C. MICHALOS After about three years in graduate school studying the history of religions, my interests turned to logic and the philosophy of science. My doctoral thesis was on a dispute between Karl Popper and Rudolf Carnap over the construction of quantitative measures of the acceptability of scientific theories (Michalos, 1971). For most of the 40 years that I was a university teacher, I taught courses in the philosophy of science, always including issues related to the evaluation of the activities and products of social and natural scientists. Since there are no generally accepted definitions of such key concepts as science, scientific explanation, scientific laws, scientific theories and scientific acceptability, but there are particular groups of researchers that tend to accept certain concepts while rejecting others (Michalos 1980), I take a fairly pragmatic approach to the construction of my own scientific vocabulary. For present purposes, the only part of that vocabulary that requires explanation concerns the term ‘citation classic’. I first encountered the term some years ago reading something by Eugene Garfield, the founder of the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), the Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Citation Classics from Social Indicators ResearchCitation Classics: The Idea and the Collection

Part of the Social Indicators Research Series Book Series (volume 26)
Editors: Michalos, Alex C.
Michalos, Alex C.
Citation Classics from Social Indicators Research — Jan 1, 2005
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Springer Netherlands
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© Springer 2005
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978-1-4020-3722-1
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1 –56
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10.1007/1-4020-3742-2_1
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1. Citation Classics: The Idea and the Collection ALEX C. MICHALOS After about three years in graduate school studying the history of religions, my interests turned to logic and the philosophy of science. My doctoral thesis was on a dispute between Karl Popper and Rudolf Carnap over the construction of quantitative measures of the acceptability of scientific theories (Michalos, 1971). For most of the 40 years that I was a university teacher, I taught courses in the philosophy of science, always including issues related to the evaluation of the activities and products of social and natural scientists. Since there are no generally accepted definitions of such key concepts as science, scientific explanation, scientific laws, scientific theories and scientific acceptability, but there are particular groups of researchers that tend to accept certain concepts while rejecting others (Michalos 1980), I take a fairly pragmatic approach to the construction of my own scientific vocabulary. For present purposes, the only part of that vocabulary that requires explanation concerns the term ‘citation classic’. I first encountered the term some years ago reading something by Eugene Garfield, the founder of the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), the Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index and

Published: Jan 1, 2005

Keywords: Life Satisfaction; Citation Classic; Multiple Discrepancy Theor; Spurious Causation; Social Indicator Researcher

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