Citation Searching and Journal Rankings 15 Mar 2016

Citation Searching and Journal Rankings 15 Mar 2016

Outline • Part 1: In. Cites Journal Citation Reports • Part 2: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) • Part 3: Scopus • Part 4: Q&A 2

In. Cites Journal Citation Reports 3

In. Cites Journal Citation Reports • In. Cites Journal Citation Reports includes citation data drawn from approximately 12, 000 scholarly and technical journals and conference proceedings from more than 3, 300 publishers in over 60 countries. • It covers almost all specialties in science, technology, and the social sciences and enables the evaluation and comparison of journals to identify the top ranked and highest impact journals in a particular field. • It provides dynamic, interactive features supported by visualizations of JCR indicators that allow researchers to compare, evaluate and inform their decisions on published research in varying fields. 4

http: //www. lib. ied. edu. hk/research/journalmetrics/ 5

Finding a Journal in JCR Enter your requested journal in the search box, e. g. Learning and Instruction Select the JCR year and the edition(s) of SCIE / SSCI or other fields 6

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Key Indicators Provided by JCR • • • Total Cites Impact Factor 5 -Year Impact Factor Immediacy Index Cited Half-Life Citing Half-Life Eigenfactor Score Article Influence Score and more …… In this workshop, we shall focus on the meaning of Impact Factor, which has been the most widely used JCR indicator for journal ranking. 8

What is Journal Impact Factor? • Journal Impact Factor is a simple statistics intended to reflect the “impact” of a journal. Basically it indicates the average number of times an article published in the particular journal during the past two years was being cited. • Journal Impact Factor is based on the In. Cites Journal Citation Reports which is updated on annual basis. 9

Below is only a simplified explanation of the metrics. For definitions and details, click the help in the JCR journal report pages Total Cites Total number of citations for this journal in the JCR year Impact Factor On average, how many times an article in this journal is being cited – based on articles published in the two previous years 5 -Year Impact Factor On average, how many times an article in this journal is being cited – based on articles published in the five previous years Immediacy Index On average, how many times an article in this journal is being cited in the same year – based on last year's data (reflects more about the nature of the subject than journal quality) Cited Half-Life Indicates how far back the older articles in this journal are still being cited (reflects more about the nature of the subject than journal quality) 10

Below is only a simplified explanation of the metrics. For definitions and details, click the help in the JCR journal report pages Citing Half-Life Indicates how recent or how old the bibliography referred by articles in this journal are (reflects more about the nature of the subject than journal quality) Eigenfactor Score The Eigenfactor Score is some kinds of enhanced 5 -year impact factor – by giving higher score for getting cited in more influential journals and eliminates self-citation Article Influence Score The Article Influence Score is derived from the Eigenfactor Score based on matching the share of the journal's influence against the share of the journal's share of articles. The neutral influence score is 1. 00 – thus a journal with article influence score greater than 1. 00 indicates that each article in the journal has above-average influence and vice versa 11

Impact Factor for Different JCR Years 12

Working Example: Impact Factor of Learning and Instruction (JCR SSCI 2014) = 3. 585 Impact Factor = No. of Cites to 2012 or 2013 items in 2014 No. of items published in 2012 or 2013 13

Impact Factor Trend of a Journal 14

Journal Ranking by Impact Factor by JCR Subject Category By default, journals are ranked by its current impact factor by subject NOTE: A journal can belong to more than one subject category; and therefore it is possible for a journal to have different ranks 15

The Meaning of Quartiles in JCR http: //ipsciencehelp. thomsonreuters. com/incites. Live. JCR/JCRGroup/jcr. Journal. Profile. Rank. html 16

Journal Ranking by Impact Factor by JCR Subject Category 17

e. g. 224 journals under the category of education & educational research 18

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To Save the Journal Data of a List of Journals Click on the “Customize indicators” button to add more other indicators 20

Export the report to excel 21

Hands-on Practice • What is the Journal Impact Factor for the journal Early Childhood Research Quarterly? • What subject categories does the journal Early Childhood Research Quarterly belong to? What are the Impact Factor of these subject categories? What are the respective subject rankings of Early Childhood Research Quarterly in the respective subject categories? • What is the full name of the highest ranked journal under the subject category “family studies" in JCR 2014 Social Sciences Edition? What is its Impact Factor? 22

Additional Information • About JCR – http: //about. jcr. incites. thomsonreuters. com/ • JCR Brochure – http: //wokinfo. com/media/pdf/JEHCR • Journal Selection Process – http: //wokinfo. com/essays/journal-selection-process/ • Web of Science Training – https: //www. youtube. com/user/Wo. STraining 23

Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) 24

Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science) Help you answer questions like: § What is the most highly cited article on Education Policy? § Which journal has the highest number of articles on Sociolinguistics? § Who are the top researchers in Chinese Politics? § How many times my journal articles are cited? …… 25

Web of Science Summary Web of Science Core Collection include citations from: • Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-Expanded) • Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) • Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI) • Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) • Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science (CPCI-S) • Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Social Sciences & Humanities (CPCI-SSH) • Book Citation Index– Science (BKCI-S) • Book Citation Index– Social Sciences & Humanities (BKCI-SSH) • Current Chemical Reactions (CCR-Expanded) • Index Chemicus (IC) http: //images. webofknowledge. com/WOKRS 520 B 4. 1/help/WOS/hp_database. html 26

Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) § A multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the social sciences. § Covers over 2, 900 journals across 50 social sciences disciplines and indexes individually selected, relevant items from over 3, 500 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals. § Coverage: 1992 -present § Examples of Subject categories: Anthropology Psychology Sociology History Philosophy Public Health Substance Abuse Industrial Relations Political Science Social Issues Urban Studies Law § Linguistics Psychiatry Social Work Women's Studies Notes: we have an archive of Arts & Humanities Citation Index covering 1992 – Nov 2011 at a dedicated PC in the Library 27

How to access 1. 2. § § Search the Library Catalogue, or HKIEd Library Homepage > E-Resources Search or Browse by alphabet S (Social Sciences Citation Index) or W (Web of Science) 28

How to access Also available under Research Support at Library Web Site 29

http: //www. lib. ied. edu. hk/research/journalmetrics/ 30

Basic Search Field Operator Search Tips Add another field Year Range 31

Search Tips Operator AND Example Find records that contain … theory AND practice both terms OR theory OR conception either term or both terms NOT theory NOT hypothesis first term but not the second theory NEAR/5 knowledge terms within a specified number of words (x) of each other “knowledge economy” exact phrase * child, children, childhood ? wom? n woman, women $ colo$r color, colour NEAR/x “…” 32

Refine & Sorting Results Sorting options Refine search Narrow results by 33

Check for Full Text via Ed. LINK or Google Scholar Detailed View of A Record 34

Export / Email / Print Your Search Results 2 3 1 4 e. g. directly export the marked records to Ref. Works 35

Cited References Click "Cited References" to see the References Cited by this Article 36

Cited References of this Article 37

Click "Times Cited" for Citing References “Times Cited” Counts in Web of Science Core Collection 38

Citing References (Articles that are Citing Peisner-Feinberg’s Article) 39

Citation Hierarchy 2008 2004 1997 2000 2005 2003 citing reference 2007 cited reference citing reference cited reference 40

"Related Records" – Other Articles Using At Least One Cited References in Peisner-Feinberg’s Article 41

Use Related Records to Identify Similar Articles 5, 157 articles have at least one common citation with this Peisner. Feinberg’s 2001 article The more references the articles share, the more related they are 42

Record C A is a “Cited Reference” of C, i. e. A is cited by C Record A Reference Record A is a “Citing Reference” of B, i. e. B is cited by A Record D Reference D is a “Related Record” of A, because B is cited by both of them Reference B 43

Exercise 1. Search for topics: social and cognitive development 2. Refine with keywords “language” and “school” 3. Limit to “Article” document How many records found? What is the most highly cited record? How many times this article is cited? 44

Category Breakdown Under Refine Results 45

Analysis Tools Analyze Results § extract citation data from a selected field (e. g. source title, country, author), and produces a report showing the values in ranked order Create Citation Report § view aggregate citation statistics for a set of search results § e. g. breakdown of citations over years, average citations per year 46

Analysis Tools Analysis tools 47

1. Analyze Results Max number of items to display: top 500 results You can rank the search results with different field options, e. g. source titles e. g. Rank the journals by number of articles on this topic 48

2. Create Citation Report Citation statistics of records found Most highly cited article 49

Exercise Search for articles with topic “mobile learning” Analyze Results § How many articles are found? § What is the source title with the highest no. of publications? § How many percentage of articles are published in 2013? Creation Citation Report § How many times these articles have been cited? § What is the average citations per year received by the top article? 50

Cited Reference Search To discover how the works of an author are being cited • How many citations received? • Cited by whom? It can also cover the variant citation data in your search 51

Finding Citation Counts and Create Alerts for Works Not Indexed in Web of Science • Important Note: Citation data by Web of Science are only limited to citations recorded in the Web of Science indexed publications. • Author Finder only finds the citation data for a particular researcher’s publications that are indexed by Web of Science. • If your article is not indexed in Web of Science or may be it is a book, you can still check how many times it has been cited by Web of Science journals and create an email alert using the "cited reference search" function. 52

Cited Reference Search • E. g. I want to know how many times the following book has been cited: Bond, M. H. (1991). Beyond the Chinese face: Insights from psychology. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press. 53

Click the "Cited Reference Search" Under the search menu, select Cited Reference Search Use only Surname and initial(s); Chinese authors should consider using different variant forms (e. g. Cheung ABL or Cheung BL or Leung CB*) Use abbreviated journal titles only (click the “View abbreviation list” for reference). For books, suggest to leave this blank first 54

Select the relevant entries from the result list and then click "Finish Search" 55

Number of times cited in Web of Science = 298 Click "Create Citation Report" for quick summary of the 298 citing articles 56

Most highly cited article 57

Create Citation Alert • Email alerts / RSS feeds • Sign up for your free account first 58

Modify the Cited Reference Search for Future Email Alerts Based on what has been entered for the 298 citations, enter the "cited work" field with what Thomson Reuters uses (Use "*" and "or" as necessary) 59

Click "Select All" and "Finish Search" 60

Select search history Use the "Save History / Create Alert" function to set up alerts Delete unwanted search history Enter History Name and select desired options. Make sure you have checked the Email Alerts option 61

Other than email alerts option, you may subscribe to the feed via your browser, e. g. the URL of this RSS feed is: http: //rss. webofknowledge. com/rss? e=084 b 532 c 67 f 88 a 8 f&c=c b 6668 f 9922294 d 29548 bee 049 db 376 e 62

Hands-on Practice • Try Cited Reference Search or set up a Citation Alert on anything that interest you – a piece of your work, a key paper related to your research topic, etc. 63

View Journal Impact Factor via SSCI Check Journal’s Impact Factor 64

Online Help http: //images. webofknowledge. com/WOKR S 520 B 4. 1/help/WOS/index. html 65

Reference Materials § Online Tutorials http: //wokinfo. com/training_support/training/web-of-science/ e. g. Web of Science Search Tips Author Search Citation Reporting and the H-index Citation Alerts Cited Reference Search Saving Search Histories and Creating Email Alerts § Quick Reference Guide of Web of Science Core Collection http: //wokinfo. com/media/pdf/wos_core_collection_qrc. pdf § Social Sciences Citation Index Source Publications List 2015 http: //science. thomsonreuters. com/mjl/publist_ssci. pdf 66

Scopus 67

Search Interface Scopus Search Interface Search Basics - use double quotes to search as phrase - search for “Keywords” instead of “Article Title, Abstracts, Keywords” for better precision 68

Search Results Add additional search terms, filter by year, subjects, etc. 69

We can also enter Additional Search Terms, use “Limit to” Options (by year / document type / subject areas) in the Search Form 70

From the Results Screen: you can also change the Sorting Order (Default Order is by Date) Various Output Options like Export, Print, Email or Create a Bibliography Check Ed. LINK for Full Text Availability 71

Like SSCI, Citing Articles are Offered Emails / RSS Alerts can also be Set Up A SCOPUS Detailed Record 72

Like SSCI, Related Articles are Offered; In addition, you can choose which shared references to use A SCOPUS Detailed Record 73

Analytics Tools in Scopus Search by Source Title 74

Select “Analyze search results” 75

The analysis shows the number of documents in your search results broken down by year, source, author, affiliation, etc. 76

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