Citation Searching and Journal

Rankings

15 Mar 2017
 Outline
• Part 1: InCites Journal Citation Reports

• Part 2: Web of Science (Social Sciences Citation

Index and Arts & Humanities Citation Index)

• Part 3: Scopus

• Part 4: Q&A

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InCites Journal Citation
Reports

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 InCites Journal Citation Reports
• InCites 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.

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http://www.lib.eduhk.hk/research/journalmetrics/

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 Finding a Journal in JCR

Enter
Enter your
your requested
requested
journal
journal in
in the
the search
search
box,
box, e.g.
e.g. Learning
Learning and
and
Instruction
Instruction

Select
Select the
the JCR
JCR year
year
and
and the edition(s) of
the edition(s) of
SCIE / SSCI or other
SCIE / SSCI or other
fields
fields

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 Key Indicators Provided by JCR

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

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 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 InCites Journal Citation

Reports which is updated on annual basis.

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 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 On average, how many times an article in this journal is being
Factor 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)
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 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 The Article Influence Score is derived from the Eigenfactor Score
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

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Impact Factor for Different JCR Years

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Working Example: Impact Factor of Learning and Instruction
(JCR SSCI 2015) = 3.692

No. of Cites to 2013 or 2014 items in 2015

Impact Factor =
No. of items published in 2013 or 2014

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Impact Factor Trend of a Journal

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Journal Ranking by Impact Factor by JCR Subject Category
By
By default,
default, journals
journals
are
are ranked
ranked byby its
its
current
current impact
impact factor
factor
by
by subject
subject

NOTE:
NOTE:
AA journal
journal can
can belong
belong to
to more
more than than one
one subject
subject
category;
category; and
and therefore
therefore itit isis possible
possible for
for aa journal
journal 15
to
to have
have different
different ranks
ranks
 The Meaning of Quartiles in JCR

http://ipscience-help.thomsonreuters.com/incitesLiveJCR/JCRGroup/jcrJournalProfile/jcrJournal
ProfileRank.html
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Journal Ranking by Impact Factor by JCR Subject Category

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e.g.
e.g. 231
231 journals
journals
under
under the
the category
category of
of
education
education & &
educational
educational research
research

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To Save the Journal Data of a List of Journals

Click
Click on
on the
the “Customize
“Customize
indicators”
indicators” button
button to
to add
add
more
more other
other indicators
indicators

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Export
Export the
the
report
report to
to excel
excel

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Journal Title Change

Covers
Covers title
title changes
changes occurring
occurring in
in the
the
past
past two
two years
years (that
(that is,
is, the
the JCR
JCR year
year
and
and the
the preceding
preceding year).
year).

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 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 2015 Social
Sciences Edition? What is its Impact Factor?
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 Additional Information
• About InCites Journal Citation Reports
– http://about.jcr.incites.thomsonreuters.com/

• InCites Journal Citation Reports Help

– http://ipscience-help.thomsonreuters.com/incitesLiveJCR/JCRGroup/jcrOverview.html

• Journal Selection Process

– http://wokinfo.com/essays/journal-selection-process/

• Web of Science Training

– https://www.youtube.com/user/WoSTraining

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Web of Science (Social Sciences
Citation Index and Arts &
Humanities Citation Index)

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Web of Science (Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts & Humanities Citation
Index)

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?

……

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 Web of Science Summary
Web of Science Core Collection include citations from:

• Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-Expanded)

• Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) Subscribed by the Library
• 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/WOKRS520B4.1/help/WOS/hp_database.html

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 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 Linguistics Psychology Sociology
History Philosophy Public Health Substance Abuse
Industrial Relations Political Science Social Issues Urban Studies
Law Psychiatry Social Work Women's Studies

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 Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI)
 A multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the of the arts and humanities.

 Covers over 1,600 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals and indexes
individually selected, relevant items from over 6,000 major science and social
science journals.

 Coverage: 1975-present

 Examples of Subject categories:

Art Folklore Literary Reviews Poetry
Asian Studies History Literature Radio, Television, & Film
Classics Language Music Religion
Dance Linguistics Philosophy Theater

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 How to access
1. Search the Library Catalogue, or
2. EdUHK Library Homepage > E-Resources
 Search or Browse by alphabet
 W (Web of Science)

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

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http://www.lib.eduhk.hk/research/journalmetrics/

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 Basic Search

Search Field Search Tips

Boolean Operator Add Another Field

Year Range

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 Search Tips
Operator Example Find records that contain …

AND theory AND practice both terms

OR theory OR conception either term or both terms

NOT theory NOT hypothesis first term but not the second

NEAR/x theory NEAR/5 knowledge terms within a specified number of

words (x) of each other
“…” “knowledge economy” exact phrase

* child* child, children, childhood

? wom?n woman, women

$ colo$r color, colour

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 Refine & Sorting Results
Sorting options

Refine search

Narrow results by

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Check for Full Text via EdLINK or
Google Scholar Detailed View of A Record

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Export / Email / Print Your Search Results
2 3

e.g. directly export the

4 marked records to RefWorks

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 Cited References

Click "Cited References" to see the

References Cited by this Article

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Cited References of this Article

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Click "Times Cited" for Citing References

“Times Cited” Counts in Web

of Science Core Collection

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

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 Citation Hierarchy
2008
2008
citing reference

2004
2004 2005
2005 2007
2007 cited reference
citing reference

1997
1997 2000
2000 2003
2003
cited reference

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

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Use Related Records to Identify Similar Articles
5,398 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

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 Record
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CC i.e. A is cited by C

Record
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Record D is a “Related
A is a “Citing
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AA Reference” of B,
DD because B is cited
i.e. B is cited by A
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Reference
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 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?

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Category Breakdown Under Refine Results

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 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

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Analysis Tools

Analysis tools

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 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

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2. Create Citation Report

Citation statistics of
records found

Most highly cited article

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 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 2016?

Creation Citation Report

 How many times these articles have been cited?
 What is the average citations per year received by the top
article?

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 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

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 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.

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 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.

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Click the "Cited Reference Search"

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Most highly cited article

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

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Modify the Cited Reference Search for Future
Email Alerts

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Based on on what
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Click
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 Select
Select search
search history
history

Use
Use the
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"Save History
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Create
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option to
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up
alerts
alerts Delete
Delete unwanted
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search history
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checked the
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Alerts option
option

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 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.

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View Journal Impact Factor via SSCI

Check Journal’s
Impact Factor

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Online Help
http://images.webofknowledge.com/WOKR
S523_2R2/help/WOS/index.html

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 Reference Materials
 Online Tutorials
http://wokinfo.com/training_support/training/web-of-science/
Web of Science Search Tips:
Author Search
Citation Report 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

 Journal lists for Web of Science Databases:

- Social Sciences Citation Index
http://science.thomsonreuters.com/mjl/publist_ssci.pdf
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index
http://science.thomsonreuters.com/cgi-bin/jrnlst/jloptions.cgi?PC=H

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Scopus

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 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 69
Search Results

Add additional search terms, filter by year,

author, subject, document type, etc.

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We can also enter Additional Search Terms, use “Limit to”
options (by year / document type) in the search form

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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 EdLINK for Full Text

Availability

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 Like Web of
Science, citing
articles are
offered

Emails / RSS
Alerts can also
be set up

A Scopus detailed record

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 Like Web of Science,
related articles are
offered (a list of all
documents that share
references with the
document you selected)

A Scopus detailed record

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CiteScore Metrics for Serials in Scopus

Search by Source Title

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CiteScore calculates the average number of citations received in a calendar
year by all items published in that journal in the preceding three years.

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