As if on cue, there appears a fascinating paper by David Mills at Oxford, which drives home the theme of my substack. It begins "This is the story of how a publisher and a citation index turned the science communication system into a highly profitable global industry. Over the course of seventy years, academic journal articles have become commodities . . ." Mills give a succinct account of Robert Maxwell (Pergamon Press) and Eugene Garfield (ISI/Current Contents/Science Citation Index) and how they got the ball rolling on the metrification of science.
As if on cue, there appears a fascinating paper by David Mills at Oxford, which drives home the theme of my substack. It begins "This is the story of how a publisher and a citation index turned the science communication system into a highly profitable global industry. Over the course of seventy years, academic journal articles have become commodities . . ." Mills give a succinct account of Robert Maxwell (Pergamon Press) and Eugene Garfield (ISI/Current Contents/Science Citation Index) and how they got the ball rolling on the metrification of science.
https://www.researchcghe.org/publications/working-paper/an-index-a-publisher-and-an-unequal-global-research-economy/