Transcript Presentation - Bodleian Libraries

Citation Searching with
Web of Knowledge
Roger Mills
Overview of Session
• What is citation indexing
• Why is it useful
• How to use it on Web of Science
• Citation searching on other products
• Getting full text, setting up alerts and organising your
references with RefWorks or EndNote
Citation indexing
• Invented in 1961 by Eugene Garfield at the Institute for
Scientific Information (ISI)
• Scientific abstracting/indexing services began in nineteenth
century, recording author/title/publisher/source etc for
articles and indexing them
• Garfield added details of all references quoted in the article
and indexed them too, publishing results as Science
Citation Index (SCI) – originally only in printed form
• Allowed for many new ways of linking articles
Exciting new ways
• For an article you’ve read:
• Find earlier articles that one was based on
• Find later articles which quoted it
• Find related articles which quote some of the same
references as this one
• So you can trace the progress of ideas backwards,
sideways and, uniquely, forwards in time
And
• You can identify which journals publish most highly-cited
articles – the notorious ‘impact factor’
• Publishing your work in high-impact journals is important in
getting funding!
Originally
• Using the paper Science Citation Index was hard work
• Now, the electronic version is much quicker to use
• But can be complex and confusing – important to
understand what it does and doesn’t do
• Caveat emptor!
• SCI now has competitors, but all work slightly differently –
e.g. Scopus, Google Scholar
• The basic concept of linking documents which cite each
other, and ranking them according to the frequency with
which they do so, underpins search engines like Google
Want to know more?
• Wikipedia is a good source – try
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citation_index
In the real world
• Science Citation Index is now part of Web of Science,
which includes Social Science Citation Index and Arts and
Humanities Citation Index
• Web of Science is a product offered on the platform Web
of Knowledge (WoK), alongside other products including
Journal Citation Reports which gives journal impact factors.
• Direct access available on Oxford network: use Athens
password outside Oxford
• Athens registration: http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/athens/
Cited Reference Search
Sample search
Times cited = citing articles
Cited references
Find related records
Related References
• Moves your research laterally
• Displays a list of articles whose cited reference lists include
at least one of the sources cited by the original (parent)
article
• Ranked by the number of shared references; those sharing
the most references are displayed first
• Excellent for retrieving lots of results, but will require some
sorting to weed out irrelevant articles
Citation Alerts
• Use this feature to register your interest in particular
article(s)
• You will then receive an email every time any of those
articles is cited by a new addition to the database
• One you have located an article you want to add to your
list, click on the Create Citation Alert button
• You can review your list by choosing View My Cited Articles
List from the WoK homepage
Citation alerts – register first
Export to Reference Software
EndNote Web Library
www.myendnoteweb.com
Login with WoK Alerts
username/password
Analyzing results
Journal citation reports (JCR)
• For Sciences and Social Sciences
• This is a measure of the frequency with which the "average
article" in a journal has been cited in a particular year. The
impact factor will help you evaluate a journal's relative
importance, especially when you compare it to others in the
same field
• From within a record you can click on Journal Citation
Reports to view the impact factor of the journal
• Or you can view and compare impact factors of all journals
within your subject area
JCR
Journal search on JCR
Impact factor for the journal “Science”
ISI Highlycited.com
• Allows you to search for a specific researcher and see how
highly cited their work is
• Use the View Publications List button to see details of their
published works, and of articles citing them
• Keep in mind that this feature is quite new and only 250
authors are included fopr each of 21 subject areas
Search for Dwek, R
Not there!
Other services offering citation searching - SCOPUS
• Sciences and Social Sciences
• Results include journal articles and web pages
• Each reference to a paper shows the number of times an
article has been cited
Sample Search in Scopus