IUPWARE VUB27/05/2009

1Brainstorm session on RS

Brainstorm session onWeb of Science

Maher Albhaisi

Table of Content

• Overview.• Search.• Results.• Additional tools.• Conclusion.

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Overview

1. What it delivers• Coverage of over 10,000 journals from 256 categories.• Coverage of over 110,000 proceedings from the most

significant conferences, symposia, seminars, etc.• Journal backfiles to 1900.• Cited reference and chemical structure searches.• Author identification tools.• Analysis capabilities.• Direct links to your full-text collections

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Overview

2. What you can do?• Search multiple disciplines and time spans.• Search comprehensive global and regional

coverage.• Find high-impact articles and proceedings.• Discover research ideas as they are first

presented, before they are included in journals.

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Overview

• See where top researchers are publishing and presenting findings.

• Identify potential collaborators with significant citation records.

• See how conference proceedings influence work in related disciplines.

• Ease searching, writing and bibliography creation into one integrated process.

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Search

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Use quotation marks to find records containing exact phrases, such as “rainfall-runoff model" .This applies only to Topic and Title searches

In one or more search fields, enter words or phrases connected by Boolean search operators (AND, OR, NOT,). Use wildcard operators ( * $ ? ) to search for plurals and variant spellings

Results

• Shows the records retrieved by your search. It provides many features to aid your research, including:

1. Search within Results2. Refine Results3. Sort by4. Output Records5. Analyze Results6. Create Citation Report

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Refine

Analyze results

sort

Full record

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Additional tool

Results

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Additional tools

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Journal Citation Reports

• 5-Year Journal Impact Factor is the average number of times articles from the journal published in the past five years have been cited in the JCR year. It is calculated by dividing the number of citations in the JCR year by the total number of articles published in the five previous years.

• The Immediacy Index is the average number of times an article is cited in the year it is published.

• Cited half-life is the median age of the articles that were cited in the JCR year.

• Cited Journal Graph shows the distribution by cited year of citations to articles published in a journal.

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Journal Citation Reports

• The white/grey division indicates the cited half-life (if < 10.0). Half of the journal's cited items were published more recently than the cited half-life.

• The top (gold) portion of each column indicates Journal Self Citations: citations to items in the journal from items in the same journal.

• The bottom (blue) portion of each column indicates Non-Self Citations: citations to the journal from items in other journals.

• The two lighter columns indicate citations used to calculate the Impact Factor (always the 2nd and 3rd columns).

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Journal Citation Reports

• the Eigenfactor Score is essentially a ratio of number of citations to total number of articles. However, unlike the Impact Factor, the Eigenfactor Score:

1. Counts citations to journals in both the sciences and social sciences.

2. Eliminates self-citations. Every reference from one article in a journal to another article from the same journal is discounted.

3. Weights each reference according to a stochastic measure of the amount of time researchers spend reading the journal.

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Journal Citation Reports

• The Article Influence Score measures the relative importance of the journal on a per-article basis. It is the journal's Eigenfactor Score divided by the fraction of articles published by the journal. That fraction is normalized so that the sum total of articles from all journals is 1.

• A score greater than 1.00 indicates that each article in the journal has above-average influence.

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Additional tools

ISI Highly Cited tool• Identify and honor researchers whose collected

publications have received the highest number of citations across the past two decades. 

• Being acknowledged by Web of Science as a Highly Cited Researcher means that an individual is among the 250 most cited researchers for their published articles within a specific time-period

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Additional tools

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Conclusion

• ISI is a powerful tool.• Saving time and energy.• Gain new techniques and Discover

research ideas as they are first presented.• Ease searching, writing and bibliography

creation into one integrated process.• http://scientific.thomson.com/tutorials/

wos8/index.html

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