Oct 2018

Outline

Part I

• InCites Journal Citation Reports

Part II

• Web of Science Core Collection

Part III

• Scopus

Access Points of Those Databases• Research Evaluation

Metrics

• Database A-Z

• iSearch

Part I

Overview to InCites JCRNumbers 12,000 journals (scholarly and technical journals) + conference proceedings

3,300 publishers

60 countries / territories

Disciplines Editions [Indices]: Science Edition [Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)] & Social Sciences Edition [Social Science Citation Index (SSCI)]

Science

Technology

Social Sciences

FeaturesReview journal titles and key performance in the category

Compare multiple journals based on a chosen indicator

Evaluate performance of journals

Recognise trending journals in key research categories

Identify the ideal journal in which to publish your forthcoming research

Key Indicators in JCR:Evaluating Journals

Journal Impact Factor

• On average, frequency of articles cited from a journal in a JCR year – based on number of articles published of such journal in the TWO previous years

Journal Impact Factor

without Self Cites

• On average, frequency of articles cited from a journal in a JCR year in which times of citations from same journal is omitted – based on number of articles published of such journal in the TWO previous years

5-Year Impact Factor

• On average, frequency of articles cited from a journal in a JCR year – based on number of articles published in the FIVE pervious years

Immediacy Index

• On average, how many times an article in a particular journal is being cited in the same year – based on number of articles in the year

Cited Half-Life• Median age of the citations received by a journal during a JCR year

• Indicates how far back the older articles in this journal are still being cited

Citing Half-Life

• Median age of citations produced by a journal during a JCR year

• Indicates how recent or how old the bibliography referred by articles in this journal are

Eigenfactor®• Enhanced 5-year impact factor – by giving higher score for getting cited in

more influential journals and eliminates self-citation

Article Influence®

• Derived from the Eigenfactor® based on matching the use of the journal’s influence against the use of the all journal’s articles from JCR database

• Natural influence is 1.00 – thus a journal with article influence score greater than 1.00 indicates that each article in the journal has above-average influence and vice versa

• Focus on types of Impact Factor onward

• They are widely used UCR indicator for journal ranking in academic

Key Indicators in JCR:Evaluating Journals

Key Indicators in JCR:Evaluating Subject Categories

Median Impact Factor

• The impact factor of the middle journal within a particular subject category in the calculated previous 2 years for a JCR year

Aggregate Impact Factor

• Takes into account the number of citations to all journals in a category and the number of articles from all journal in a subject category in the previous 2 years

• e.g. if an Aggregate Impact Factor is 1.0 means, on average, the articles in a subject category published in two year period of time have been cited once

Aggregate Immediacy

Index

• Takes into account the citations made for a subject category in the current year and the number of articles from all journal in the same year

Key Indicators in JCR:Evaluating Subject Categories

Aggregate Cited Half-Life

• Median age of the articles were cited by the journals of a particular subject category in a JCR year

Aggregate Citing Half-Life

• Median age of the citations produced by a subject category in a JCR year

More about Journal Impact Factor

• A statistic intended to reflect the “impact” of a journal

• Indicates the average frequency of articles published in a particular journal were being cited during the past two years

• Provides a functional approximation of the mean citation rate per citable item

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𝑵𝒖𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒇 𝒄𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒊𝒕𝒎𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝑻𝑾𝑶 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔

Journal Impact Factor Quartile (JIF Quartile)- Key Additional Indicator• Gives idea of the quality profile of the journals in a specific category

• Calculation: • X = the journal rank in category according to the metric

• Y = the number of journals in the category

• Z = Percentile rank (X/Y)

• Q1 (o.o < Z ≤ 0.25) = Top Positioning Journals

• Q2 (0.25 < Z ≤ 0.5) = Mid-Upper Positioning Journals

• Q3 (0.5 < Z ≤ 0.75) = Mid-Lower Positioning Journals

• Q4 (0.75 < Z) = Bottom Positioning Journals

Practice

• Journal Reports• operation and understanding of journal reports

• comparing journals

• Category Reports• operation and understanding of category reports

• Generating Reports

Find a JournalLogin is required if saving your preference

Journal Report – Current Year

Journal Report – All Year

• A journal can belong to more than one subject category

• Thus, a journal fall into more than one subject category rankings

Journal Report – All Year

Comparing Journals

Finding Categories

Category Report

Generating Reports

• Journal Rankings AND Subject Category

Rankings

• Selecting your evaluated journals or subject

categories

• Selecting your preferred indicators

• CSV or XLS format

• Journal Comparison

• Under the environment of “Compare Journals”

• PDF format only

Let’s Try InCites JCR

• Exercises• What is the Journal Impact Factor for the journal entitled Early Childhood Research Quarterly in

2013 and 2017?

• What subject categories does Early Childhood Research Quarterly fall into?ANDWhat are the respective subject rankings of this journal in the its subject categories in 2017?

• What is the full name and JCR abbreviation of the highest ranked journal under the subject category “Green & Sustainable Science & Technology” in JCR 2016 social science edition.

Know More About InCite JCR

• InCites JCR Helphttp://ipscience-help.thomsonreuters.com/incitesLiveJCR/overviewGroup/overviewJCR.html

• InCites JCR Learning Materialshttp://clarivate.libguides.com/jcr

• Blog Posts from Clarivate Analytics about InCites JCRhttps://clarivate.com/blog/tag/journal-citation-reports/

• Journal Selection Porcess – SCIE, SSCI, and AHCIhttps://clarivate.com/essays/journal-selection-process/

Outline

Part I

• InCites Journal Citation Reports

Part II

• Web of Science Core Collection

Part III

• Scopus

Part II

Overview

• Different from JCR, Web of Science Core Collection focus more on information and analysis at

article level

• Online subscription-based scientific citation indexing service and database

• Provides access to bibliographic information (and links to full-text if the full-text is subscribed by

the institute) of scientific and scholarly literature

• Helps to explore research topics based on citation data

• Gives analytical functions to evaluate articles based within a particular query

Help Answering Questions Like……

• What is the most highly cited article on Education Policy?

• Which journal has the highest number of articles on Sociolinguistics?

• Who are the top researches in Chinese Politics?

• How many times my journal articles are cited?

Citation Indices Coverage

• Science Citation Index

• Social Sciences Citation Index

• Arts & Humanities Citation Index

• Book Citation Index

• Emerging Sources Citation Index

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Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)

Coverage

• Multidisciplinary index to literature of social

sciences

• Over 3,200 journals across 55 social science

disciplines, and

• Selected items from 3,500 of the world’s

leading scientific and technical journals

• Time: 1900 to present

Examples of Subject Categories

Cultural StudiesEducation & Educational

Research

Education, Special

Environmental Studies

Ethics Family Studies

History LinguisticsPsychology,

Applied

Psychology, Educational

Psychology, Social

Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary

Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI)

Coverage

• Multidisciplinary index to literature of arts

and humanities

• Over 1,700 arts and humanities journals

• Over 250 scientific and social sciences

journals

• Time: 1975 to present

Examples of Subject Categories

ArtAsian

StudiesCultural Studies

Folklore HistoryLanguage & Linguistics

Literature, American

Literature, British Isles

Literature, Romance

Music Philosophy Religion

Search Tips – OperatorsOperator Example Find records that contain…

AND theory AND practice all terms separated by the operator

OR theory OR practice any of the terms separated by the operator

NOT theory NOT hypothesis without the word after operator

NEAR/x educational NEAR/10 psychology the terms joined by the operator are within a specified number of words

SAME McGill Univ SAME Quebec SAME Canada all terms separated by the operator in “address field”

“ “ “knowledge economy” such exact phrase

* child* that group of character with the operator; i.e. child, children, childhood

? wom?n the word including any single character placed with the operator; i.e. woman, women

$ colo$r the word including “zero or one “ character placed with the operator; i.e. colour, color

Practice

• Managing functions in:• Search

• Results

• Retrieved Record

• Analyzing Tools• Analyze Results

• Citation Reports

• Cited Reference Search

Getting Started – Basic Search

• Example:

• finding articles related to

Knowledge Management

applied in Educational

Setting

Refining & Sorting Results

e.g. selected “Education Educational Research” & “Education Scientific Disciplines” to narrow down the results within these two categories

Detailed View of a Record• Key Functions:

• Publication Description

• i.e. author(s), article title, journal title, date/year of publication,

abstract, keywords, etc…

• Find more records of the author

• EdLINK and Link to Google Scholar (appearing on results list as

well)

• Citation Network (publication cited by OR citing articles)

• All Times Cited Counts

• Cited Reference & Related Records

• Most Recently Cited by

• Web of Science Usage Count

Citation Network

• From the function on Citing

Articles List:

• Same as results list

• Sorted by Date, Times Cited,

Usage Cournt

• Refine results

• Analyze Results

• Create Citation Report

• Times Cited Counts in different

databases

Related Records

• Identify similar articles

• Ranking of Related Records (Relevance) –

Assumption based on

• subject relations

• the more cited references two articles share (i.e.

Shared References), the closer the subject

relationship

• contain same terms in

• titles

• abstracts

• keywords

Exercise

1. Search for topics: social and cognitive development

2. Refine with keywords “language” and “school”

3. Limit to “Article” document

• How many records found?

• Which is the most highly cited record?

• How many times this most highly cited article is cited?

Analyzing Results• Results can be analyized by:

• Web of Science Categories

• Publication Years

• Document Types

• Organizations-Enhanced

• Funding Agencies

• Authors

• Source Titles

• Countries / Regions

• Languages

• Research Areas

Citation Report of Results

• Report of your search results contains:

• Total Publications per Year

• Sum of Time Cited

• Sum of Time Cited per Year

• h-index

• based on a list of publications ranked in

descending order by the Times Cited count

• Citing articles

• More.....

Exercise

• Search for articles with topic “mobile learning”

1. Analyze Results• How many articles are found?

• What is the source title with the highest no. of publications?

• How many percentage of articles are published in 2017?

2. Creation Citation Report• How many times these articles have been cited?

• What is the average citations per year received by the top article?

Cited Reference Search

• Used to find the articles that

cite a person’s work

• I want to know how many time

Gray, PH has been cited

• and, what are those citing

articles

STEP 1

Cited Reference Search

STEP 2Select References + Click “Finish Search”

Results List

Other Frequently Used Functions

• Search History

• Search Alert

• Marked List

• Export to bibliographic management tools; i.e. RefWorks

• Download Reports

• More……

Know More aboutWeb of Science Core Collection • Search Rules / Tips

http://images.webofknowledge.com/WOKRS530AR16/help/WOS/hs_search_rules.html

• Web of Science Core Collection• http://clarivate.libguides.com/woscc

• Web of Science Core Collection Help – Index• http://images.webofknowledge.com/WOKRS530AR16/help/WOS/index.html

• A&HCI – Journal List• http://mjl.clarivate.com/cgi-bin/jrnlst/jloptions.cgi?PC=H

• SSCI – Journal List• http://mjl.clarivate.com/cgi-bin/jrnlst/jloptions.cgi?PC=SS

Outline

Part I

• InCites Journal Citation Reports

Part II

• Web of Science Core Collection

Part III

• Scopus

Part III

Overview

• Largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature

• Coverage:• Data from over 5,000 publishers

• Types: journals, books, conference proceedings, patents

• Over 69 million records

• 62.4+ million records post 1969 with references

• 6.6+ million records pre-1970, with the oldest record dating back to 1788

• Over 39 million patent records

• Over 12 million author profiles

• Over 70,000 main intuitional profiles

Basic Search

Add more search field here

Refine and Sorting Results on Results List

Record Details

• Key Functions

• Publications data

• EdLINK

• Download / Save to PDF (if full-

text provided)

• Add to List

• Citing Reference

• Cited by

• Related Documents

• Metrics

Metric Details

CiteSore Metrics for Serials

CiteSore Metrics for Serials

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Web of Science Core Collection –Key Coverage

Types of Material

• Significant journals

• Books

• Proceedings

Disciplines

• Sciences

• Social Sciences

• Art & Humanities

Number of Items

• Over 71 million article records

• More than 94,000 books

• Over 10 million conference papers

Time period

• Sciences: 1990-Present

• Social Sciences: 1900-Present

• Arts & Humanities: 1975-Present

• Proceedings: 1990-Present

• Books: 2005-Present

Author / Institution Indexing

• All authors from all publications are indexed

• All author affiliations are indexed

Web of Science Core Collection –Key Coverage