FW: FW: ISI Database

Dear Henry,

SRF signed up for a free trial with ISI and made use of the 12 applicants who were in our last global case report to do the publication/citation search. At the same time, we put the scholars' information into Scopus Citation Tracker and Google Scholar. The results were inconsistent and more "hits' came from Scopus and Google Scholar than ISI. From speaking with the SRF staff who took this task, I learned that there were a large number of packages available for the ISI trail subscription and I am thinking that maybe the correct one for this job was not selected.

I would be grateful if you would ask Jeffrey the specific ISI package that he uses. As well, I believe that our trial subscription has expired and it would be great if it were at all possible to use Jeffrey's password - on a temporary basis - to do another round of scholar sampling.

Thanks!

Best,

Jim

Jim Miller III
Executive Director
Scholar Rescue Fund

Institute of International Education (11E)

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I would gladly , however it is not mine, it is harvards and i do not have direct access..

i would like to see the inconsistant results.. I would like to see what srf has done so far. I am convinced that the average level of scholarship is fair at best. taken by country , by field , by any measure . The low level of qulaity university interest , is in an of itself a pretty good indicator.

From: Jeffrey Epstein [mailto:jeevacation@gmall.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 10 20:09
To: Dr. Henry Jarecki
Subject: Re: FW: ISI Database

I would gladly , however it is not mine, it is harvards and i do not have direct access..

i would like to see the inconsistant results.. I would like to see what srf has done so far. I am convinced that the average level of scholarship is fair at best. taken by country , by field , by any measure . The low level of qulaity university interest , is in an of itself a pretty good indicator.

Henry:

In response to Jeffrey’s note about the quality of the universities that host SRF scholars, please find the attached ranking list of the current academic-year SRF hosts.

This is not a complete host list, and, as you realize, the Iraq project’s mandate to keep Iraqi scholars at institutions in MENA would skew the results of an assessment of the overall quality all of the 2009-2010 host universities.

I hope that you find this information of interest, and regarding Jeffrey’s note, please let me know if there is additional follow-up reporting that you would like.

Best,

Jim

Jim Miller
Executive Director
Scholar Rescue Fund

Institute of International Education (IIE)