The first issue of Mathematical Review was published in June 1940 1. The first issue contains 2 120 comments, which are divided into 1 1 categories: history, foundation, algebra, number theory, group theory, analysis, topology, geometry and so on. At present, the collected literature has been applied to mathematics, statistics, engineering, physics, economics, biology, operational research, computer science and other fields. The data come from periodicals, books, meeting records, collections and preprints. Nearly12,000 commentators from all over the world directly hired by the Journal Editorial Department of the American Mathematical Society commented on more than 2 100 periodicals, more than 500 books and related academic conferences from more than 250 professional publishing houses around the world.
At present, MathSciNet contains more than 3 million records, and the database will add more than 65,438+10,000 new records every year. MathSciNet has become the most important tool to search the literature of mathematics and related disciplines in the world. More than 2,000 academic institutions around the world use MathSciNet through group subscription.
[1] Comparative analysis of citation retrieval in Longxi. SCIE and Mathematical Network Database [J]. Journal of Library Science, 2009,01:112.
MathSciNet's help to researchers
With high-quality citations and article reviews, MathSciNet has far surpassed other full-text foreign language databases and become the most used database for researchers in mathematics and related disciplines. According to the interview conclusion that the librarians in Tsinghua University once made use of documents by researchers, MathSciNet has extremely remarkable characteristics and advantages for researchers:
The collected literature on mathematics and related disciplines is very comprehensive.
Many articles have peer review, which can help you quickly and conveniently understand the value of a large number of articles.
You can learn the comments of your peers on your published articles.
[2]? Zeng, a person. Practice of Subject Service Based on Effective Information Behavior of Subject —— Taking Tsinghua University Mathematics as an Example [J]. Journal of academic libraries, 20 14, 03:85-90.
MathSciNet's help to librarians
Taking mathematics as an example, when librarians evaluate the highest H index of scientific researchers, they need to call out the papers of each scientific researcher in SCIE. Because SCIE can't distinguish the authors of the same name, it is inevitable that there will be misjudgments and omissions. MathSciNet's MR Author ID can help librarians quickly determine mathematicians' SCIE papers.
The authors in MathSciNet are unique. It creates an author profile for each author, including the number of MR author IDs, articles published by authors, papers published by collaborators, statistics of cited articles, etc. MathSciNet includes all journals in the field of mathematics, while SCIE only includes core journals in the field of mathematics, so MathSciNet's paper covers the field of mathematics in SCIE.
[3]? Wang. MathSciNet database and its application in H index [J]. Science and technology information development and economy, 2013,06:126-127.