Describes the production, application and limitation of Science Citation Index (SCI) and Journal Citation Reports (JCR), two major databases of the Institute of Scientific Information (ISI), especially focusing on the usage of citation data for author and institution assessments. Moreover, the critiques of citation analysis, such as self-citation, citation error, citation equality, indirect citation as well as problems of citation data are discussed. The validity of citation analysis and its relationship with academic evaluation are also investigated. Original article in Chinese. (Author abstract)
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Journal of Library and Information Science (USA/Taiwan),31.1 , 45-53