Re: [ECOLOG-L] Name change? - summary of responses

2010-02-13 Thread David Inouye
The original query I posted: I'm mentoring a graduate student who has several publications already (including one in Ecology). I looked up the student's name on Web of Science and realized that the name (first and last only) that was used for publication is shared with a large number of resea

Re: [ECOLOG-L] name change?

2010-02-11 Thread Jörn Schmidt
Hi, or you can use: http://www.researcherid.com/ to add all your publications which might be under different names, your affiliations (including former ons) etc... it uses ISI Web of Science as a database and you can check your citations like in Web of Science (it is also a Thomson Reuter

Re: [ECOLOG-L] name change?

2010-02-11 Thread malcolm McCallum
While on the topic of Web of Science, as managing editor of Herpetological Conservation and Biology I figured I'ld do a search on our journal this morning to see how many times our journal has been cited (HCB has qualified for ISI inclusion, but is still waiting for them to start giving us actual r

Re: [ECOLOG-L] name change?

2010-02-11 Thread malcolm McCallum
This student could use Hartzings Publish or Perish to do the same thing. It may give you a slightly different number for h than will ISI but it is close enough for everyday purposes. Both systems make equally signficant, but different, errors in the calculation in that ISI leaves out so many jour

Re: [ECOLOG-L] name change?

2010-02-11 Thread Gary Grossman
Hi David, on some of my early publications I just used my first initials and originally they showed up under a different name in Science Citation Index (yes this was the days when it only was a print index). Since they've gone electronic you can write them and ask them to switch citations into the

[ECOLOG-L] name change?

2010-02-11 Thread David Inouye
I'm mentoring a graduate student who has several publications already (including one in Ecology). I looked up the student's name on Web of Science and realized that the name (first and last only) that was used for publication is shared with a large number of researchers (although not ecologist