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I am equally upset by the fact that citations in the supplementary material tend not to get into the citation indices, though it is not quite so bad for SHELX because it tends to be cited in less prestigeous journals that make less use of supplementary material! George Prof. George M. Sheldrick FRS Dept. Structural Chemistry, University of Goettingen, Tammannstr. 4, D37077 Goettingen, Germany Tel. +49-551-39-3021 or -3068 Fax. +49-551-39-22582 On Fri, 9 Jan 2009, Ethan Merritt wrote: > 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 > > -- > Ethan A Merritt > Biomolecular Structure Center > University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742 >