Library Workshop Searching Social Sciences Citation Index

1. Library Workshop Searching Social Sciences Citation Index

2. 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? …

3. Web of Knowledge Databases Web of Knowledge Web of Science Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI) Current Contents Connect Journal Citation Report (JCR) Biological Abstracts Science Citation Index Expanded BIOSIS Previews Conference Proceedings Citation Index Other Databases Other Databases

4. Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) • Essential data from over 4,500 leading social sciences journals across 50 disciplines • Coverage: 1992-present • Subject disciplines:

5. How to access • 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)

6. Social Sciences Citation Index @ Web of Science Citation Search Cited Reference Search Save & Output Search Results Citation Analysis Tools Citation Alert Save and run the search periodically

7. 2008 citing reference 2005 2007 cited reference citing reference cited reference Citation Hierarchy 2004 1997 2000 2003

8. Search Field Operator Year Range Display Option

9. Search Tips

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

11. 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

12. Found Record Check for Full Text Records with common references Check Journal’s Impact Factor

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

14. Save your search results 3 1 2 4

15. Export Search Results You can export the search records to different bibliographic management tools: Export records to RefWorks at Web of Science Choose “Save to other Reference Software” Import records to RefWorks Import filter = Hong Kong Institute of Education Database = Web of Science

16. Analysis Tools Analyze Results • extract citation data from a selected field (e.g. source title, country), 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

17. Analysis Tools Analysis tools

18. 1. Analyze Results You can rank the search results with different field options e.g. Rank the journals by number of articles on this topic

19. 2. Citation Report Citation statistics of records found Most highly cited Article

20. Exercise Search for articles with topic “facebook” 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 2011? Creation Citation Report How many times these articles have been cited? What is the average citations per year received by the top article?

21. Cited Reference Search To discover how the works of an author are being cited • How many citations received? • Cited by whom?

22. How many times the works of Prof. Joshua Ka-ho Mok have been cited in Web of Science?Who have cited his works?

23. 1 Enter all variant forms of author name 2 3 Select records to search 4

24. Times cited Most highly cited by

25. Exercise How many times the works of Prof. Cheung Bing-leung Anthony are cited? What is the year his articles are mostly cited? Hints: 1. Use Cited Reference Search 2. Author = Cheung ABL 3. Use Analyze Results

26. Sign In As a registered user, you can take advantage of these features: • Save your searches • Set up search history alerts • Set up citation alerts • Access EndNote Web

27. Citation Alert • To receive an e-mail alert when an article on the list is cited in a new article

28. Citation Alert • View and change the setting of current alerts in My Citation Alerts

29. Saved Searches • Save the search history and re-run as necessary • Setup email alert for saved search queries

30. Online Help

31. Reference Materials • Quick Reference Card • http://thomsonreuters.com/content/science/pdf/ssr/training/wok5_wos_qrc_en.pdf • Social Sciences Citation Index Source Publications List • http://science.thomsonreuters.com/mjl/publist_ssci.pdf • Online Tutorials • http://thomsonreuters.com/products_services/science/training/wos/#tab3 • e.g. New Features Update • Web of Science Search Tips • Cited Reference Searching • Citation Report and H-index • Saving Search Histories and Creating Alerts

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