Transcript Introduction to the Web of Science

Evaluation of Scholarship
using
Web of Science
Gayle Baker
Electronic Services Coordinator
UT Libraries
Overview
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Web of Science
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Source record
Citation alerts
Times cited in source record
Analyze results feature
Cited reference searching
Essential Science Indicators of UTenn and
AAU membership
Citation Index Database
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Allows one to search cited references, like
searching for an author or subject
Different types of searches:
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Who is citing one’s work
Track research based upon an earlier paper
Identify sources of information used by
competitors
Who is working in the same area of a given paper
Source Record: Citation Alerts
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Receive e-mail whenever someone cites
a “source” paper in Web of Science
Must be registered
Source Record: Times Cited
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Links to other source records that have
correctly cited this paper
May not cover every citation of a paper
in the WoS database
Search for Dept. Output
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Quick
General search
Address field
SAME
univ SAME tennessee SAME dept SAME
(knoxville or 37996)
Look at abbreviations
May not cover all publications by a
department
Analyze Results Feature
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Search results summary
Limit to 2,000
Cited Reference Searching
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Cited Author
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To be safe, use 1st author
Cited Work
Cited Year
Look for variations
No citations from references in books,
reports and journals that are not Web
of Science sources
Suggested Methodology
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Detail (Tenure/promotion or departmental
output)
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Use list of publications
Cited reference search for 1st author and
variations for each publication
May limit references retrieved by Year
Quick (Departmental publication counts)
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Evaluation of departmental output
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General search
SAME operator in Address field
May miss some publications
Caveats
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Citation Analysis: Some Caveats
(http://www.lib.utk.edu/~elecserv/citcaveat.htm)
Essential Science Indicators
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Another ISI product
Am. Assoc. of Universities
Trial
Institutional data covered several
campus sites
Data from Jan. 1, 1994-June 30, 2004
Questions?
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Contact:
Gayle Baker
[email protected]
974-3519