Permuterm Subject Index
Permuterm index is a kind of indexing used by Institute for Scientific Information in their citation indexes. It is pretty much the same as KWIC indexing.
Permuterm Subject Index is a system which permits users to find papers by providing all possible permuted pairs of title words.
Literature:
Garfield, E. (1976). Permuterm Subject Index: Autobiographical review. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 27(5-6), 288-291. Also available from: http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v3p070y1977-78.pdf
Birger Hjørland
Last edited: 28-01-2006