Journals, Databases, and

Data sourcesEssential Resources for

Environmental Health Research

Objectives

Introduce the Informatics Concepts of Bibliometrics and Citation Analysis

Illustrate how Bibliometrics and Citation Analysis May Be Used In Search Strategies

Demonstrate Bibliometric and Citation Analysis Tools for Identifying Prominent Journals for Environmental Health Research

Review Boolean Operator functions and Illustrate Their Application for Data Retrieval

Bibliometrics Used to Rank Journals

Impact Factor (Used by Web of Science)

Cites to Articles Published in Previous 2 years / Number of Articles Published in Previous 2 Years

h5-index (Used by Google Scholar)

A journal has an h5-index of X when it has at least X articles published in the last 5 years with at least X citations in the last 5 years

Viewing Ranked Lists in JCR

Locate Journal Citation Reports on the Library’s

List of Databases

Viewing Ranked Lists in JCR

Select the edition you

want to view. Public and

Environmental Health are in

the Social Sciences Edition

Viewing Ranked Lists in JCR

Select the Category

View Journal Data by Impact Factor and “Submit”

Viewing Ranked Lists in JCR

Viewing Ranked Lists in Google Scholar

View the Metrics

Viewing Ranked Lists in Scholar

Select Categories and Subcategories from the Menu on the Left. Environmental & Occupational Medicine is a

Subcategory of Social Sciences.

Viewing Ranked Lists in Scholar

Depending on your topic, you may find useful subcategories in other major categories. For example, the Mycology subcategory in Life Sciences is relevant for researchers

investigating the topic of mold infestations.

Viewing Ranked Lists in Scholar

Click on the h5 index number to view the most highly cited

articles in that journal.

Citation Analysis

Subject Categories in Web of Science are Based Upon

Citation Networks

Boolean Searching

Can Break Out of Citation Networks

Can be Used to Retrieve Data as well as Literature

Three Basic Operators AND

OR

NOT

Parenthesis Can Often be Used to Control Order of Operations

Boolean Searching In NYC Open Data

Boolean Searching In NYC Open Data

“Match Any Condition” Corresponds to Boolean OR. “Match All Conditions”

Corresponds to Boolean AND. Each Filter Group is essentially bounded by

parenthesis.