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ISI users tracking research evolution.(Thomson Corp. Thomson Scientific)(Survey)(Brief article)

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| March 06, 2006 | COPYRIGHT 2006 Incisive Media, published with the permission of Incisive Media. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Tracey Caldwell

Scientific researchers are increasingly looking to track the evolution of research to decide how to proceed with their own research, according to usage surveys of the ISI Web of Knowledge service.

Thomson Scientific has reported a huge increase in the number of people accessing its ISI Web of Knowledge service; each user is also accessing the resource for longer.

More than 54 million user sessions were recorded in 2005, an increase on the 33 million user sessions for 2004. The number of times each user accessed the resource rose by 27%.

Back issues within the Web of Science go back more than 100 years, enabling researchers to trace ideas forwards and backwards in time via cited reference searching, and to learn who has cited their work.

Peggy Dominy, information service librarian for sciences at Drexel University in Philadelphia, said: "The Web of Science Analyze tool lets users track the evolution of research. Before, determining seminal papers and tracking the evolution of research ...

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