Over a 35-year period, Irving H. Sher played a critical role in the development and implementation of the Science Citation IndexT and other ISIT products. Trained as a biochemist, statistician, and linguist, Sher brought a unique combination of talents to ISI as Director of Quality Control and Director of Research and Development. His talents as a teacher and mentor evoked loyalty. He was a par...

This paper employs citation analysis to investigate empirically the influence of top IS journals on both IS and other literature. We assessed the quality of the three top IS journals by comparing their citation indices and examining the distribution of their citations among different disciplines. Some 7429 citations from the Social Science Citation Index and Social Science Index (2003-2009) are...

Information retrieval is the process of searching and retrieval of information from documents that matches user query. The user information requirement is represented by a query or profile that contains one or more search terms. Indexing plays important role to retrieve the information. Researchers have been used indexing techniques only for document indexing and not focused on the speed up the...

The main purpose of the presentation is to outline some alternative approaches on how a superlative annual consumer price index could be constructed using the monthly price information that is presently collected by statistical agencies. The first issue that must be addressed is: how should the monthly price information at the lowest level of aggregation be aggregated up (over months) to form a...

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Finding desired information from large data set is a difficult problem. Information retrieval is concerned with the structure, analysis, organization, storage, searching, and retrieval of information. Index is the main constituent of an IR system. Now a day exponential growth of information makes the index structure large enough affecting the IR system’s quality. So compressing the Index struct...