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Nature 415, 732 (14 February 2002) | doi:10.1038/415732a

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Shengli Ren1, Guang'an Zu1 & Hong-fei Wang2

  1. Department of Publication, National Natural Science Foundation of China, 83 Shuangqing Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100085, China
  2. Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No 2, 1st North Street, Zhong Guang Cun, Haidian District, Beijing 100080, China

Your opinion article (Nature 415, 101; 2002) provides timely cautions about the errors of Science Citation Index (SCI) data compiled by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI). As Chinese scientific publishers, editors and researchers, we wish to point out that these errors are far more serious for journals published in non-English-speaking countries.