On Friday 09 January 2009 10:11:55 Lucas Bleicher wrote:
> I've been compiling a reference database and I've just noticed that it's
> quite difficult to automatically retrieve references for most articles on
> crystallographic software. Has anyone noticed that?
> It seems that, for some reasons, articles on the "Computer programs"
> section on Journal of Applied Crystallography (where the "official reference"
> for most of the software we use gets published) is not indexed on databases
> such as ISI Web Of Science, Pubmed, etc, but all other sections from that
> magazine are.
I have not noticed that, although I have noticed a related problem.
Citations made in supplementary material often do not get collected into
the citation indices, and since some high profile journals are pushing
methodological details into supplementary material, this means the
citations are "lost" to electronic searches.
If it helps, I have a collection of crystallographic references in bibtex
format collected from people in the lab and from an earlier query here
on ccp4bb. It's certainly not complete, nor fully up to date, but
it may contain the citations you are looking for.
http://www.bmsc.washington.edu/CrystaLinks/bibtex/bibtex.html
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Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742
