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Essential Science Indicators

New Features of Version 2.0

Thomson ScientificSeptember 2005


Essential Science Indicators 2.0 (ESI2.0)

New Features– New Look– Usage Reports – Boolean Searches – New Baselines – Navigation Aids– Bidirectional links between ESI and Web of Science

Copyright 2004 Thomson


New Features – Described in Brief• New Look – color & fonts layout

• Usage Reporting – Sub-sessions & queries

• Boolean searching for Hot and Highly-Cited Papers

• Baseline Upgrades: New Field Ranking page; Percentiles page expanded to give 20% & 50%

• Navigation Upgrades: New Paper page links to Field Rankings, Research Fronts, Editorial Commentaries, & Hot Papers; Direct navigation to Field Rankings; Return To List (search results list) from Rankings

• WoS links to ESI ESI-WoS links now bi-directional

• Other – Set Thresholds on Rankings Pages; Paper pages include a secondary sort by publication year; Graph pages link to tabular data display; Country heading changed to Country/Territories



New look

•Old look

•New lookESI was updated on July 1, 2005 to cover a ten-year plus four-

month period, January 1, 1995 - April 30, 2005



ESI Usage Mock Up – (actual samples not yet available)

•New to Usage Reporting: subscribers to ESI will get ESI usage statistics folded into totals in August reports

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Usage Reports – Mock Up of daily use graph

Essential Science Indicators•Usage data includes sub-sessions & queries.

•Most points of navigation to ESI sections/pages register as queries.



Boolean Searching – Capability added to papers sections

• By Name allows access to browse

• Explanatory text provided on page

• Designed along the lines of General Search for ease of use.



Baseline Upgrades – Field Rankings

• Includes sort options and

• access to papers & graphs

• Key comparative data provides new context for Scientist, Country, & Journal Rankings by field.



Baseline Upgrades – Field Rankings, new graphs

• 3 new graphs in 5 yr intervals include:

• by number of papers published

• by citation rates

• by average rate of citations per paper



Baseline Upgrades – Percentiles table expanded

• New Percentiles



Navigation Upgrades – Direct Link to Field Rankings

• Example: Enter by selected scientist

• Click the All Fields link to go that page where the scientist is ranked overall, (in this case at #17,560 at the bottom of p.878 for all fields.)

• Click the scientist link to return.

• Also note new option to set thresholds



New Links on Papers Pages to Field Rankings, Research Fronts,

Editorial Commentaries and Hot Papers

• You will not see every link on every paper, only where applicable.

• Link to editorial on this paper

• Link to papers ranked in this field.

• Sorting by publication year may bring some links to Hot papers to the top.

• The Research Front Link opens a page showing only the associated listing.



Return to List – new toolbar button; sample 1 for papers searches

• Now you can go back from 3 to 2 for additional selections instead of having to reselect options on the menu (1).



• Now you can go back from 3 to 2 for additional selections instead of having to reselect options on the menu (1).

Return to List – new toolbar button; sample 2 for rankings searches



Graph pages link to tabular data display

•Aids legibility for some.



Launch Details & Contact

ContactsJapan – [email protected] – [email protected] – [email protected] of Asia – [email protected]

Launch Date September 3rd together with latest (3rd) 2005 bimonthly update in place

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Documents

new look esi

new percentiles

new graphs

new context

new option

paper slide

field rankings wos links

field rankings example