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T H O M S O N S C I E N T I F I CThe Web of Science and Citation IndexingThe Web of Science and Citation Indexing

Origins: Dr. Eugene Garfield: a pioneer in the field of information science and scientific communication. His vision: using cited reference searching as a basis for scientific and scholarly discovery.

• Dr. Garfield’s 1955 article in Science introduced citation indexes as a new type of classification tool -- Use a citation as a search term (instead of a keyword) and as a way to follow the “development path” of an idea.


Evolution of the citation index and research evaluation using citations

1960’s -> Science Citation Index Print1970’s -> SciSearch, SocialSciSearch1980’s -> CD-ROM version, A&HCI1997 -> Web of Science2000 -> ISI Web of Knowledge

The introduction of the internet and in particular the hyperlink have released the true power of citations


Diversity Quality

•Diversity: Truly Multidisciplinary– All fields of research are included in over 200 categories– 8,600+ journals total

Over 6,100 titles in the hard sciences alone (SCIe) Social sciences – 1790 titles Arts & humanities – 1125 titles

Web of Science


Diversity Quality

• Quality: Evaluated, Selected Content– Every Web of Science journal is individually selected for influence

within its respective discipline.– Our selection criteria is unbiased, impartial, time-tested.

We are “Publisher-Neutral”, evaluating research – Commercial, Society, Open Access publications, etc.

Web of Science


A closer look: Journal Selection ProcessWhy be selective?

– Economically impractical to cover everything– Analysis of citation data has shown that a core of

2,000 journals account for about 85% of all that is published and 95% of what is cited.

– However this core is not static, and additional journals must be included. Thomson Scientific covers this expanded core of journals and enhances it with coverage of hot disciplines that may become main-stream in the future. Additional journals are indexed to provide a broad and even distribution of data across all disciplines and geographic regions.


Thomson Scientifics editorial staff review around 2,000 new journals annually. 10-12% of these journals are added to the collection. Existing database constantly monitored to ensure that journals are maintaining high standards

Many factors, are taken into account:– Basic publishing standards

• Timeliness• Follows publishing conventions • English language bibliographic information• Peer Review

– Editorial content• Will it enrich the database?• Is it a hot topic?

– International diversity of authorship– Citation analysis

• Impact Factor, Immediacy index• How the journal compares to other journals in its field• Citation analysis of editorial board

A closer look: Journal Selection Process

T H O M S O N S C I E N T I F I CThe Web of Science and Citation IndexingThe Web of Science and Citation Indexing

The Impact Factor can be considered to represent how many times an average article was cited in the previous 2 years

How was the 2003 Impact Factor of “Journal-X” calculated?

A = Total number of times all journals published in 2003 cited articles published in Journal-X in 2001-2002

B = Number of articles published by Journal-X in 2001-2002

Impact Factor = A/B

• Considered by many to be the de-facto method to evaluate journals, but must be used with care as journal citation data should be used in context and other factors taken into consideration.

• Another tool for journal evaluation is the Immediacy Index which represents how many times the average article is cited within it’s year of publication. The Immediacy Index can provide valuable insight to just how cutting edge a journal is

The Impact Factor


Diversity Quality Unique Data

Data: unique capabilities– Capture of Author Cited References over 55 years provides for

methods of discovery that are simply not possible elsewhere. – Navigate “Cited References” and “Times Cited” backward and

forward in time across decades of research.– Find articles that cannot be found through traditional free-text

searching techniques

Web of Science


2004

Cited References

2000 1998

2001

1993

2003Times Cited

Related Records

2003

2004

1999

2002

1994

2004

Citing

From just a single record within the Web of Science,

expand your search by simply following the links designed

to drive discovery.

… moving Backward in time via Cited References, Forward in time via Times Cited,

and expand your search with Related Records.

Citation Navigation


Citation Index - The Value Add• The language of science is always changing, concepts

and terminology continue to evolve

• Free-text searching alone will never maximize retrieval of critical information…

LAV(in Europe)

HTLV-III(in USA)

Human Immunodeficiency virus HIV

(the world)

1983 1987 Present

For Example, the early research connecting HIV to AIDS actually referred to the virus using two different terms. Neither term was “HIV”


Diversity Quality Unique Data Depth

• Depth!– Coverage back to 1945 in the Sciences, to 1956 in the Social

Sciences, to 1975 in Arts & Humanities– 1900-1944 Back files in Development!** Current information is of course critical. However, access to an

archive of influential research is absolutely important.** Impact of previous findings, even decades old, may be very

significant. One must retain the resources necessary to make these assessments.

Web of Science


Navigate through citations to find all the key steps for any discovery.


Five or ten years of backfiles only begins to tap the wealth

of information accessible through General and Cited

Reference search and navigation.

Clearly researchers are still heavily citing papers from more than 20, 30, 40 years ago – and even longer.

Web of Science BackfilesWeb of Science Backfiles


1945 to 2003

Century of Science and eFIRST:Extending foundational resources within the Web of

Knowledge

1900 - 1944 2004--

eFIRST pre-

publication articles

Century of

Science backfiles


Diversity Quality Unique Data Depth

Over 200 disciplines covered in over 8,600 journals

Editorial selection of core high impactjournals

Over 55 years of Author Citation information

Coverage back to 1945 in the hardsciences

Unmatched Elsewhere No other resource offers the level of selectivity and editorial quality found within Web

of Science journal content

Unavailable ElsewhereAccess to such a diverse, deep, influential collection with navigable cited reference

links across 55+ years

Web of Science

T H O M S O N S C I E N T I F I CWeb of Science 7.0 – Home Page Redesign

Easy to use and intuitive interface, can use with little or no instruction

T H O M S O N S C I E N T I F I CWeb of Science 7.0

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New - “Term Lists” provide user-friendly assistance in defining

and adding terms to the search.

New – General Search “Group Author “ field.

T H O M S O N S C I E N T I F I CCited Reference Search

To be truly comprehensive in your search efforts, the Cited Reference Search is

essential in that it can retrieve information often missed through use of Key-words alone.


Advanced Search option is available for those

comfortable with “command line” style

search queries.

Search History presents a simple “Combine Sets”

option for fine-tuning results.

New fields

T H O M S O N S C I E N T I F I CSearch ResultsSearch over 34 million records since 1945.

Easily navigate Thousands of Records, Deep into the Web of Science back file.

Enhanced “Mark” features.

T H O M S O N S C I E N T I F I CNew -- Results Analysis Tool

Recognize trends and access subsets by:

AuthorDocument Type

InstitutionLanguage

Publication YearsSource Titles

Journal Categories

Refine results like never before.

T H O M S O N S C I E N T I F I CComplete bibliographic

information in an easy to read format.

T H O M S O N S C I E N T I F I CIntegration & Navigation,

key advantages of the Web of Knowledge Platform.

Link to the publisher’s full-text, other external resources

T H O M S O N S C I E N T I F I CIntegration & Navigation,

key advantages of the Web of Knowledge Platform.

Expand your search to other resources available within the

ISI Web of Knowledge


Go to Current Contents Connect Go to BIOSIS Previews

Current Contents Connect CC Connect Table-of-Contents BIOSIS Previews Journal Citation Reports

Navigate through citations. Follow the research pathways to get a

comprehensive history of a breakthrough.

Use related records to expand your search.


Go to Current Contents Connect Go to BIOSIS Previews

Current Contents Connect CC Connect Table-of-Contents BIOSIS Previews Journal Citation Reports

For Related Records; Web of Science 7.0 presents the number of references shared by related papers

– a proven method for gauging relevance.

T H O M S O N S C I E N T I F I CNew - Citation Alert!

The Web of Science includes a vast number of influential papers. Take advantage of the depth of this

resource.

Should a record seem especially relevant, Web of Science 7.0 allows the

user to quickly and Easily create a Citation Alert – receive an automated

e-mail alert every time this article is cited.


Chemical Structure searching is also

available


At the end of the search session, there are a number

of options presented for handling of Marked Records.


Export directly to Bibliographic Management

Tools such as EndNote, Reference Manager and

Procite

T H O M S O N S C I E N T I F I C… the ISI Web of KNOWLEDGE

Web Content

LinkingCrossSearching

AlertingPersonalization

T H O M S O N S C I E N T I F I CWeb of Knowledge 3.0 – more intuitive

Simplified CrossSearch multi-database discovery

Access to all of your Web of Knowledge

databases

Menu Navigation

Personalization

Institutional Branding


Check boxes to include resources in

CrossSearch

The Web of Knowledge CrossSearch “Form” search

will also query selected, freely available web resources.

Web of Knowledge 3.0 - CrossSearch

T H O M S O N S C I E N T I F I CChoose the full record you wish to view.

Duplicates are consolidated, not

eliminated!


Click the tab to view results retrieved from

selected freely available web resources

Cumulated results appear on the results

screen, click hyperlinks to view the original

source


ISI Proceedings•Multidisciplinary, international coverage•70% unique (monographic sources not in Web of Science)


Benefits of conference information

– New findings and “ideas-in-progress” are introduced at conferences -- as papers or simply abstracts -- long before they make it into the journal literature

– Particularly important venue for discussion and communication in engineering/physical sciences and biosciences

– To get the complete picture of a particular research area it is essential to look at proceedings literature (part of the journals + proceedings + patents combination)


Benefits of ISI Proceedings

– Brings additional content to ISI Web of Knowledge• 70% is NOT found in Web of Science • Multidisciplinary, comprehensive selection in ~250

categories; • ISI Proceedings is the only proceedings

database with citation information• Cited references (1999 -- present)• Related Records based on those references• Link to “Times Cited” in WoS (for mutual subscribers)


Derwent Innovations Index•Patents are becoming an integral part of the scientific communication process, especially in biotechnology, genetic engineering, drug development, and nanotechnology•


Derwent Innovations Index (DII) is the ideal patent resource for research scientists

•3 million inventions accounting for 23 million patents

•Coverage of 40 world patent-issuing authorities

•Coverage depth back to 1963, updated weekly

•Over 20,000 patent records added each week

•Provides both general key-term and cited patent searching

Derwent Innovations index


• With over 35 years of experience in creating patent resources, Thomson Scientific have the experience and technology to create the most helpful and powerful search tools

• Thomson Scientific's team of specialists add a wealth of valuable information to each record, such as, patent family information, in depth indexing and value added titles and abstracts.

• Split into 3 areas:• Chemical• Electrical and Electronic• Engineering

Derwent Innovations index

Powerful Tools for easy searching

T H O M S O N S C I E N T I F I CDerwent Innovations index

Citation information, including links to cited articles in Web of Science

Informative, concise, English language titles and abstracts for

every record


Current Contents Connect

High quality content, powerful and flexible searching functions, browsing of Tables of Contents and Alerting

Compliments other Web of Knowledge resources, to provide the ideal current awareness tool.


eFirst articles contain bibliographic information for articles before their official inclusion in the latest issue of the

Journal. Typically, these articles appear in the "advance publication" sections of electronic journals.

Complete articles, searchable, linkable and full text is available

1000+ journals available now


Select a Journal, and then a specific issue to view the

Table of Contents.

Table of contents presents articles in a formatted list divided into sections just like the original journal


Personalize your Web of Knowledge home page by

adding links to your favorite journals

With a single click, you can access the Table of

Contents of the latest issue!


Alerting is also available.

Have the latest Table of Contents e-mailed to you

automatically!

Full Text Access is just two clicks away

The most important research – all customized

on ones personalized home page.


Find pre-selected relevant web sites, view brief abstracts of the web sites content.

Quickly and easily find highly relevant web sites.


Your original query is run against the eSearchSM database of full-text web documents.

Because the web-sites are selected using our stringent selection criteria, the content is

trustworthy and search results have far higher relevance than traditional web search engines.


Save your search, or setup an Alert

Search results are e-mailed to you automatically as the database is updated.

Multiple delivery options are available.


Journal Citation Reports 3.0Determine relative influence of journals within their subject categories

Totally unique tool to discover relationships between journals through citation patterns


Explore relationships with other journals through “Cited” and “Citing” data

Now displayed graphically, easy to differentiate self citations

Journal Citation Reports 3.0

T H O M S O N S C I E N T I F I CJournal Citation Reports 3.0

Additional links help put data in context

Link to the Journal Summary List for this JCR

Journal Category

Link to the Scope Note for a description of the

JCR Journal Category


Carefully selected premier databases

Easy to use and intuitive interface

All the power and functionality of ISI Web of Knowledge

LinkingCitation sharingCrossSearching


T H O M S O N S C I E N T I F I CHosted ContentHosted ContentJournals &

Serials

Technical Reports

Conference Proceedings Books

DissertationsPatents

1969

1969

1880

1973

1969


Web of Science1945-

BIOSIS Previews

1969-

CAB Abstracts

1973-

INSPEC1969-

FSTA1969-

PsycInfo 1880-

Additional Resources, carefully selected, will follow.

Medline Late 2004

The Web of Knowledge ArchiveThe Web of Knowledge Archive

To Date: Combined Web of

Knowledge resources provide access to

over 16,000 journals and serials.

Science Social Science Arts & Humanities8,60

09,300

12,342 14,075

14,590

16,000+

Life Sciences

Agriculture and Applied Life Sciences

Physics Electr Eng Computing

Food Science

and Technolog

y

Psychology and

Psychiatry

Journal Coverage

T H O M S O N S C I E N T I F I C Hosted Content – BIOSIS Previews

BIOSIS Previews 4.0

Intuitive, quick and simple to use


The topic search is mapped to multiple fields.

Even novice users can take advantage of the enhanced

indexing.

Hosted Content – BIOSIS Previews


Explore expert indexing simply and easily using the intuitive search aids

“ADD” search terms with the click of a button



Same functionality as Web of Science 7.0


Viewable record limit, increased to 100,000

Open URL links on results summary page

“Analyze” your results


Same functionality as Web of Science 7.0

Create a citation alert, automatic notification

when this article is cited!

Links to full text are enhanced through more extensive use of the DOI.

Link to other subscribed Web of Knowledge products, link

directly to citation information in the Web of Science

“Citing Articles” links even for records not shared with

Web of Science!


Taxonomic and other data fields are displayed in

formatted tables for easy interpretation

T H O M S O N S C I E N T I F I C… the ISI Web of KNOWLEDGE

Web Content

LinkingCrossSearching



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