Citation Searching and Journal Rankings

1. Citation Searching and Journal Rankings 15 Mar 2017

2. 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

3. InCites Journal Citation Reports

4. 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. 4

5. http://www.lib.eduhk.hk/research-evaluation/ 5

6. 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

8. 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

9. 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. 9

10. Below is only a simplified explanation of the metrics. For definitions and details, click the help in the JCR journal report pages 10

11. Below is only a simplified explanation of the metrics. For definitions and details, click the help in the JCR journal report pages 11

12. Impact Factor for Different JCR Years 12

13. 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 13

14. Impact Factor Trend of a Journal

15. 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

16. The Meaning of Quartiles in JCR http://ipscience-help.thomsonreuters.com/incitesLiveJCR/JCRGroup/jcrJournalProfile/jcrJournalProfileRank.html 16

17. Journal Ranking by Impact Factor by JCR Subject Category

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

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

21. Export the report to excel

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

23. 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? 23

24. 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 24

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

26. 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? …… 26

27. 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/WOKRS520B4.1/help/WOS/hp_database.html Subscribed by the Library 27

28. 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: 28

29. 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: 29

30. How to access EdUHK Library Homepage > Database A-Z List • Search or Browse by alphabet • W (Web of Science) 30

31. How to access Also available under Research Support at Library Web Site 31

32. http://www.lib.eduhk.hk/research-evaluation/ 32

33. Basic Search Search Tips Search Field Boolean Operator Add Another Field Year Range 33

34. Search Tips 34

35. Refine & Sorting Results Sorting options Refine search Narrow results by 35

36. Detailed View of A Record Check for Full Text via EdLINK or Google Scholar 36

37. Export / Email / Print Your Search Results 2 3 1 e.g. directly export the marked records to RefWorks 4 37

38. Cited References Click "Cited References" to see the References Cited by this Article 38

39. Cited References of this Article 39

40. Click "Times Cited" for Citing References “Times Cited” Counts in Web of Science Core Collection 40

41. Citing References (Articles that are CitingPeisner-Feinberg’s Article) 41

42. 2008 citing reference 2005 2007 cited reference citing reference cited reference Citation Hierarchy 2004 1997 2000 2003 42

43. "Related Records" – Other Articles Using At Least One Cited References in Peisner-Feinberg’s Article 43

44. 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 44

45. Record C A is a “Cited Reference” of C, i.e. A is cited by C Record A Record D A is a “Citing Reference” of B, i.e. B is cited by A D is a “Related Record” of A, because B is cited by both of them Reference Reference Reference Reference Record B 45

46. Exercise Search for topics: social and cognitive development Refine with keywords “language” and “school” Limit to “Article” document How many records found? What is the most highly cited record? How many times this article is cited? 46

47. Category Breakdown Under Refine Results 47

48. 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 48

49. Analysis Tools Analysis tools 49

50. 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 50