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Schui, Gabriel; Krampen, Gunter – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2010
The article presents 30-year bibliometrical results on trends in the scope, internationality, and impact of the "International Journal of Behavioral Development" ("IJBD") from its inception in 1978 to 2007. Bibliometric data were collected using the databases PsycINFO and Social Science Citation Index (SSCI), and the "IJBD" itself. In comparison…
Descriptors: Developmental Psychology, Longitudinal Studies, Bibliometrics, Indexes

Diodato, Virgil; Gandt, Gretchen – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1991
Describes a study that examined back of book indexes produced by 37 authors and 27 nonauthors to see whether differences between the 2 groups of indexers could be discerned by counting the occurrence of 3 characteristics in their indexes: number of index pages, modified headings, and cross-reference use. (27 references) (LRW)
Descriptors: Authors, Automatic Indexing, Comparative Analysis, Indexes

Poyer, Robert K. – Special Libraries, 1982
Describes a comparative study conducted at the Medical University of South Carolina of time lag in the indexing of 51 major biomedical journals by four information services: Current Contents, Science Citation Index, SDILINE/Medline, and Index Medicus. Data are presented in three tables and a 10-item reference list is attached. (JL)
Descriptors: Citation Indexes, Comparative Analysis, Indexes, Indexing
Delong, Linwood – Acquisitions Librarian, 2007
This paper compares the subject indexing on articles pertaining to Immanuel Kant, agriculture, and aging that are found simultaneously in Humanities Index, Academic Search Elite (EBSCO) and Periodicals Research II (Micromedia ProQuest), in order to show that there are substantial variations in the depth and quality of indexing in these databases.…
Descriptors: Indexes, Databases, Indexing, Humanities

Veenema, Fred – Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science, 1996
Describes an experiment comparing the performance of an automatic full-text indexing software for personal computers (i.e., the Quick-Finder facility in WordPerfect 6.1 for Windows) with the human intellectual assignment of indexing terms to each document in a collection. Results are discussed in terms of ease of use, the time factor, and recall…
Descriptors: Automatic Indexing, Comparative Analysis, Computer Software Evaluation, Indexes

Wiberley, Stephen E., Jr. – Library Quarterly, 1988
Explores differences in precision of terms used in subject access in the humanities, differentiating by the exactness with which the phenomena designated can be located in space and time. Samples of 200 terms from seven indexes in the humanities are classified according to five categories of terms. Six tables present results of data analyses. (22…
Descriptors: Classification, Comparative Analysis, Humanities, Indexes

Svenonius, Elaine – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1986
The issue of free-text versus controlled vocabulary is examined. The history of the issue, which is seen as beginning with the debate over title term indexing in the nineteenth century, is reviewed and questions not satisfactorily addressed by previous research are raised. (Author/EM)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, History, Indexes, Indexing
Ma, Yan; Diodato, Virgil – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1999
Compares the indexing structure of icons with principles used for traditional indexing. A sample of 15 library homepages was drawn from the total population of the United States library homepages. Semiotics theory was used to study the icons. Analysis and results are outlined. (AEF)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Indexes, Indexing, Knowledge Representation

Dunn, Ronald G. – Online Review, 1983
Discusses strengths of abstracting and indexing services (subject coverage, resolution of language problems, systematic indexing) and summarizes sources, countries of origin, languages, total coverage, and indexing of four scientific and technical services--Biosis, Engineering Information, Inspec, Chemical Abstracts Service. Characteristics of…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Comparative Analysis, Databases, Indexes

Weinberg, Bella Hass – Library Resources and Technical Services, 1990
Compares and evaluates the indexes to the 1978 and 1988 editions of AACR2. The index format is examined, national and international standards are cited, syndetic structure is discussed, examples of missing entries and cross-references are provided, the chain index structure is described, and recommendations for future editions are presented.…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Comparative Analysis, Evaluation, Futures (of Society)

Markey, Karen – Library Trends, 1988
Describes four approaches to art historical scholarship, including iconography, and identifies the common characteristics of several iconographical research collections. Topics discussed include the reasons for the limitation of some collections to secondary subject matter, and future directions in subject access to iconographic research…
Descriptors: Art History, Classification, Comparative Analysis, Indexes

Giral, Angela; Taylor, Arlene G. – Library Resources and Technical Services, 1993
Examines the overlap of article coverage and the consistency of indexing between the "Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals" and the "Architectural Periodicals Index." The historical backgrounds of the two indexes are described, possibilities for collaboration between them are considered, and implications for users are…
Descriptors: Architecture, Comparative Analysis, Cooperation, Indexes

Julian, Charles A. – 1978
This study examines the differences in subject approaches found between two secondary services in education: Education Index and ERIC's Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE). A sample of 30 journal articles was taken from each tool in the areas of educational psychology, school administration, and special education; after an investigation…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Education, Educational Psychology, Indexes

Diodato, Virgil – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1994
Discusses the results of a survey of 255 librarians and college professors that was conducted to determine their preferences regarding three back-of-the-book index features: word-by-word versus letter-by-letter alphabetizing; line-by-line versus run-on subheading arrangement; and see references versus duplicate entries. (Contains 25 references.)…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, College Faculty, Comparative Analysis, Filing
Saba, Virginia Kathleen Joseph – 1981
Intended to provide the nursing community with a comparative analysis of four major computerized document retrieval systems and one manual system providing coverage of the nursing literature, this study compares the indexing vocabulary, database coverage, and retrieval performance of the Educational Resource Information Center (ERIC),…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Comparative Analysis, Databases, Indexes
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