Comprehensive Suite to Provide Best-in-Class Solution for Author
Identification
PHILADELPHIA and LONDON, June 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Thomson Scientific, a
business of The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC; Toronto) and leading
provider of research and development information solutions to the worldwide
scientific community, today announced a robust suite of authorship search
tools to simplify the tasks of finding and assessing authors' works.
Thomson Scientific has worked carefully to craft an effective, large-scale
solution to the complex issue of author identification in the world's
largest multidisciplinary citation resource, the Web of Science(R), and
will be rolling out this initiative beginning July through the end of 2006.
"Through discussions with customers, we realized the daily challenges
users face in finding all of an author's works across large
multidisciplinary collections and correctly 'disambiguating' them from
other authors. A simple, quick-fix solution would not meet our users'
needs," said Jim Pringle, vice president, product development, Thomson
Scientific. "Instead, we have worked closely with researchers over several
years to develop a full suite of offerings to address those challenges."
These new tools help researchers find their own works, or those of a
colleague, in a simple, single search. Then, they can analyze and report on
these works using the powerful tools available in the ISI Web of Knowledge.
The suite of Thomson authorship tools in development for ISI Web of
Knowledge includes:
-- Author Finder
Author Finder is a quick process that helps users find papers
published by a specific author by leveraging the expert indexing
within the ISI Web of Knowledge. Enter a name, then choose from a
list of name variants and match the results with subject category
and/or institution of the author for whose works you are searching to
retrieve works specific to a particular author.
-- Author Disambiguation
How do you distinguish one V. Lee, from another? Or J. Smith? A
remarkable new approach solves this problem across a full century of
scholarly information. This key challenge has been the focus of a
multi-year research effort within Thomson Scientific that has
resulted in powerful "disambiguation" algorithms now being applied
across the entire Web of Science. Avoiding the pitfalls of a
simplistic solution, all of the elements in the indexed records and
the full range of citation relationships have been combined with
sophisticated mathematical techniques to organize all records in Web
of Science by "authorships" - groups of papers by the same author.
-- Biographical and Bibliographical Information for Highly Cited Authors
A direct link will be available from these authorship groups to
http://www.ISIHighlyCited.com, a collection of some of the world's
most highly cited researchers. Web of Science users can link to
biographical and bibliographical information from the ISI Web of
Knowledge record.
-- Processing Author Full Names
Our processing centers now capture full author names for all records
that contain them, making it simple to determine whether "J. Smith"
is John, James or Jane.
About The Thomson Corporation
The Thomson Corporation (http://www.thomson.com), with 2005 revenues of
$8.7 billion, is a global leader in providing integrated information
solutions to business and professional customers. Thomson provides
value-added information, software tools and applications to more than 20
million users in the fields of law, tax, accounting, financial services,
higher education, reference information, corporate e-learning and
assessment, scientific research and healthcare. With operational
headquarters in Stamford, Conn., Thomson has approximately 40,000 employees
and provides services in approximately 130 countries. The Corporation's
common shares are listed on the New York and Toronto stock exchanges (NYSE:
TOC; Toronto).
Thomson Scientific is a business of The Thomson Corporation. Its
information solutions assist professionals at every stage of research and
development - from discovery to analysis to product development and
distribution. Thomson scientific information solutions can be found at
http://www.scientific.thomson.com.
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