A Pilot Web Environment Implementing Cascading Citations

Abstract

In this paper we present a web environment implementing the cascading citations paradigm. The pilot implementation consists of three components, the Universal Author Identifier system (UAI_Sys), the Cascading Citations Indexing Framework system (c2 IF_Sys) and the c2 IF algorithm. The inner functionality of the c2 IF algorithm lies beyond the scope of this presentation, comprising the topic of a separate paper. In this respect, the focus here is on UAI_Sys and c2 IF_Sys. The two components are implemented as web applications, and they co-function by utilizing web services. In its implementation, c2IF_Sys utilizes citations data from the ISI Science Citation Index Expanded (ISI SCIE) made available from Thomson Scientific (http://scientific.thomson.com/) along the lines of the Cascading Citations Analysis Project (C-CAP, http://www.ccapnet.org/ccap/).