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Filename: sciam1980.bib
Version: 4.06
Date: 17 May 2023
Time: 09:59:34 MDT
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This is a bibliography of the magazine/ journal Scientific American (CODEN SCAMAC, ISSN 0036-8733 (print), 1946-7087 (electronic)) for the decade 1980--1989.
The companion bibliographies sciam18xx.bib, sciam19xx.bib and sciam20xx.bib cover other decades.
At version 4.06, the year coverage looked like this:
1970 ( 1) 1977 ( 0) 1984 ( 204)
1971 ( 0) 1978 ( 0) 1985 ( 202)
1972 ( 0) 1979 ( 0) 1986 ( 228)
1973 ( 0) 1980 ( 201) 1987 ( 280)
1974 ( 0) 1981 ( 196) 1988 ( 401)
1975 ( 0) 1982 ( 194) 1989 ( 408)
1976 ( 0) 1983 ( 201)
Article: 2514
Book: 2
Total entries: 2516
There is no significant coverage of the Arabic edition (Majallat Al-Oloom), the Chinese edition, the French edition (Pour La Science, l'Edition Francaise de Scientific American), the German translation (Spektrum der Wissenschaft), the Italian edition (Le Scienze), the Japanese edition (Saiensonu), the Polish edition (Swiat Nauki), the Russian edition (V mire nauki), or the Spanish edition (Investigacion Ciencia).
The journal has a World-Wide Web site at
with pointers to incomplete indexes of issues from 1996--date at
http://www.sciam.com/previousissues.html
In some cases, these indexes have pointers to the full text of selected articles. URL values in the bibliography entries below contain pointers to these indexes and/or articles.
There is also a searchable archive of issues from 1993 to date, available for download, in PDF form, for a fee:
Sadly, the sciam.com publication data proved unreliable because titles in tables of contents frequently did not match those on the articles, and other publication data were often incomplete or inaccurate.
Fortunately, there is now a good archive of journal data at
http://www.nature.com/scientificamerican
and those data have been converted automatically to BibTeX form for this bibliography, with additional programmed and manual work to supply the required bracing of proper nouns in title fields, and compound names in author fields, and to repair other typographical errors.
The September 1996 issue of Scientific American carried an announcement of the SciDEX CD-ROM with articles from 1948--1995. I purchased a copy, and have used it to add and/or correct several dozen entries in this bibliography; unfortunately, the index on that CD-ROM contains only initial page numbers (and often, no volume and issue numbers), and there is no way to do batch searching, so it is of limited utility for extending this bibliography.
The initial draft of this bibliography was derived almost entirely from the OCLC Contents1st database. Additions were then made from all of the bibliographies in the TeX User Group collection, from the Uncover library database, from the Compendex databases (1970--1996), from the IEEE INSPEC 1989--1995 CD-ROM database, from bibliographies in the author's personal files, and from the computer science bibliography collection on ftp.ira.uka.de in /pub/bibliography to which many people of have contributed. The snapshot of this collection was taken on 5-May-1994, and it consists of 441 BibTeX files, 2,672,675 lines, 205,289 entries, and 6,375 <at>String{} abbreviations, occupying 94.8MB of disk space.
Regrettably, the OCLC database does not record final page numbers of journal articles, so there are many page ranges of the form 123--?? in this bibliography. Also, the titles and page numbers for this journal in the OCLC database are often inaccurate.
It is also troubling that different databases sometimes list completely different page number lists for the same article. This may arise from confusion between the national and international editions, both of which appear to have the same ISSN values. The SciDEX CD-ROM index sometimes shows separate starting page numbers for the international edition. When both page number ranges are available, they are encoded as ``81--85 (Intl. ed. 40--44)''.
Page ranges that are believed to correspond only to the international edition have entries with the journal value of j-SCI-AMER-INT-ED instead of j-SCI-AMER, but I expect that a number of entries attributed to the latter should be the former, and vice versa.
These defects will be remedied if more reliable sources can be found.
Numerous errors in the sources noted above have been corrected. Spelling has been verified with the UNIX spell and GNU ispell programs using the exception dictionary stored in the companion file with extension .sok.
BibTeX citation tags are uniformly chosen as name:year:abbrev, where name is the family name of the first author or editor, year is a 4-digit number, and abbrev is a 3-letter condensation of important title words. Citation tags were automatically generated by software developed for the BibNet Project.
In this bibliography, entries are sorted in publication order within each journal, using bibsort -byvolume.
The checksum field above contains a CRC-16 checksum as the first value, followed by the equivalent of the standard UNIX wc (word count) utility output of lines, words, and characters. This is produced by Robert Solovay's checksum utility.