CAS LAUNCHES FREE WEB SERVICE CONNECTING SCIENTISTS TO HIGH INTEREST RESEARCH IN CHEMISTRY

SCIENCE SPOTLIGHT(SM) Delivers View of Most Highly Cited and Requested Chemistry Documents

16-Aug-2001

A new web service from Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), a division of the American Chemical Society, reveals the most highly cited and requested chemistry-related research publications as reflected by the citations included in the CAS databases and the full-text documents requested by scientists through the ChemPort Connection. CAS Science Spotlight will provide not only lists of highly cited and requested documents, but also the bibliographic and abstract information along with the full text, where available, all free of charge. Most Cited Journal Articles, Journals and Patent Families in CAS databases 1999-2000 CAS Science Spotlight lists the documents most cited, for the last two publication years, in the patents, conference proceedings, Web preprints or one of the 8,000 journals covered by CAS, producer of the world's largest collection of scientific information. Most Requested Documents of the Quarter CAS Science Spotlight identifies the scientific papers and chemistry-related patents for which researchers have most frequently requested the full text via the CAS ChemPort Connection, available through STN, SciFinder and SciFinder Scholar. In its initial release Spotlight lists the Most Requested documents for a five-week period during the most recent quarter. Future updates will be offered quarterly. CAS began adding citations to its CAplus database in 1999. Science Spotlight provides a unique report on citation activity in chemistry research by: listing the most frequently cited patent families providing summaries of concepts and substances covered in the document presenting links to the electronic full text of the document or a pdf copy when electronic full text is not available. "In 1999, CAS began adding citations to our bibliographic database at a rate of nearly 20 million per year," said CAS Director, Robert J. Massie. "This growing collection of citations is valuable in itself, but even more so in terms of their links within the CAS databases, the world's most valuable compendia of indexed and edited chemical and related information. Science Spotlight is a first step in analyzing this collection and deriving insights into the direction and focus of scientific research today. We thank our colleagues in primary publishing for their cooperation in launching Spotlight, and look forward to working with them and individual researchers to evolve this program in the years to come."

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