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Essential Science Indicators
New Features of Version 2.0
Thomson ScientificSeptember 2005
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Essential Science Indicators 2.0 (ESI2.0)
New Features– New Look– Usage Reports – Boolean Searches – New Baselines – Navigation Aids– Bidirectional links between ESI and Web of Science
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New Features – Described in Brief• New Look – color & fonts layout
• Usage Reporting – Sub-sessions & queries
• Boolean searching for Hot and Highly-Cited Papers
• Baseline Upgrades: New Field Ranking page; Percentiles page expanded to give 20% & 50%
• Navigation Upgrades: New Paper page links to Field Rankings, Research Fronts, Editorial Commentaries, & Hot Papers; Direct navigation to Field Rankings; Return To List (search results list) from Rankings
• WoS links to ESI ESI-WoS links now bi-directional
• Other – Set Thresholds on Rankings Pages; Paper pages include a secondary sort by publication year; Graph pages link to tabular data display; Country heading changed to Country/Territories
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New look
•Old look
•New lookESI was updated on July 1, 2005 to cover a ten-year plus four-
month period, January 1, 1995 - April 30, 2005
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ESI Usage Mock Up – (actual samples not yet available)
•New to Usage Reporting: subscribers to ESI will get ESI usage statistics folded into totals in August reports
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Usage Reports – Mock Up of daily use graph
Essential Science Indicators•Usage data includes sub-sessions & queries.
•Most points of navigation to ESI sections/pages register as queries.
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Boolean Searching – Capability added to papers sections
• By Name allows access to browse
• Explanatory text provided on page
• Designed along the lines of General Search for ease of use.
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Baseline Upgrades – Field Rankings
• Includes sort options and
• access to papers & graphs
• Key comparative data provides new context for Scientist, Country, & Journal Rankings by field.
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Baseline Upgrades – Field Rankings, new graphs
• 3 new graphs in 5 yr intervals include:
• by number of papers published
• by citation rates
• by average rate of citations per paper
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Baseline Upgrades – Percentiles table expanded
• New Percentiles
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Navigation Upgrades – Direct Link to Field Rankings
• Example: Enter by selected scientist
• Click the All Fields link to go that page where the scientist is ranked overall, (in this case at #17,560 at the bottom of p.878 for all fields.)
• Click the scientist link to return.
• Also note new option to set thresholds
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New Links on Papers Pages to Field Rankings, Research Fronts,
Editorial Commentaries and Hot Papers
• You will not see every link on every paper, only where applicable.
• Link to editorial on this paper
• Link to papers ranked in this field.
• Sorting by publication year may bring some links to Hot papers to the top.
• The Research Front Link opens a page showing only the associated listing.
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Return to List – new toolbar button; sample 1 for papers searches
• Now you can go back from 3 to 2 for additional selections instead of having to reselect options on the menu (1).
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• Now you can go back from 3 to 2 for additional selections instead of having to reselect options on the menu (1).
Return to List – new toolbar button; sample 2 for rankings searches
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Graph pages link to tabular data display
•Aids legibility for some.
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Launch Details & Contact
ContactsJapan – [email protected] – [email protected] – [email protected] of Asia – [email protected]
Launch Date September 3rd together with latest (3rd) 2005 bimonthly update in place