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WISER: Bibliometrics I Who’s citing you?

WISER: Bibliometrics I Who’s citing you? . Angela Carritt & Juliet Ralph angela.carritt@bodleian.ox.ac.uk juliet.ralph@bodleian.ox.ac.uk November 2011. In this session. Citation tracking - what it is and why its important Finding out who’s citing you using: Web of Science Scopus

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WISER: Bibliometrics I Who’s citing you?

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  1. WISER: Bibliometrics IWho’s citing you? Angela Carritt & Juliet Ralph angela.carritt@bodleian.ox.ac.uk juliet.ralph@bodleian.ox.ac.uk November 2011

  2. In this session • Citation tracking - what it is and why its important • Finding out who’s citing you using: • Web of Science • Scopus • Google Scholar. • Creating citation alerts Next session • WISER Bibliometrics II: The Black Art of Citation Ranking - more on measuring research impact

  3. Papers that share one or more citation in common - related Later papers that cite “your” paper } { 2010 2009 2010 2006 2008 2008 1980 } Earlier papers referred to in “your” paper 2007 1870

  4. Why bother • Trace the progress of research backwards, forwards and sideways • Identify research papers in your field / stay ahead of competitors • Assess the impact of your research – grants / jobs

  5. Web of Science • 12,000 referred, high impact journals and conference proceedings • 30,000 books from • Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI)--1945-present • Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)--1956-present • Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI)--1975-present • Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Science (CPCI-S)--1990-present • Book Citation Index (scholarly titles covering original research) 2005-

  6. Search example • Bartsch, R.A. & Cobern, K.M. 2003, "Effectiveness of PowerPoint presentations in lectures", Computers & Education, vol. 41, no. 1, pp. 77. • Effectiveness of PowerPoint presentations in lectures • Bartsch, RA & Cobern, KM • Source: COMPUTERS & EDUCATION    Volume: 41    Issue: 1    Pages: 77-86    Published: AUG 2003 • Cited references • Times cited

  7. WOS: Search

  8. WOS: Results More information including citation history Times cited

  9. WOS: tracking citations Papers which cite this paper Set up an alert for new papers citing this article Papers sharing at least one citation in common with this article Papers cited in this paper (e.g. bibliography)

  10. WOS: Citing articles Where did WOS find the citations? Analyze / Create Citation Report

  11. WOS “Analyze results” Analyse by author, institution, source (journal), grant number etc

  12. WOS: Citation Report Citation data for articles citing Bartsch

  13. General v Cited Reference • General • quick and easy but may be incomplete • can also search for book reviews • Cited Reference search • Thorough – picks up variant citations. Only tool to do this. • Includes publications which are not on WOS but which are cited by items that are on WOS (e.g. pre 1945, books)

  14. WOS cited reference search Look up correct abbreviation – must be exactly right

  15. WOS Cited reference search Picks up variant citations

  16. What about journals not in WoS? http://science.thomsonreuters.com/mjl/ Master List of ISI journals - 12,000 journals which form the basis of Web of Science and Journal Citation Reports (JCR).

  17. Scopus • Huge bibliographic database: • 18,000 scholarly journals & conference proceedings in Science, Medicine, Social Sciences & Humanities. • Some overlap with Web of Science. • Sources tab lists journals included. • www.scopus.com • View references displays the article’s bibliography. • Citations column indicates times the article was cited • by other articles in Scopus • since 1996.

  18. Times cited in Scopus

  19. NB ‘since 1996’

  20. Analysing citing articles 1. Tick box next to article title. 2. Click View Citations.

  21. 3. Tick All box, to select all the citing articles. 4. Click on View Citation Overview.

  22. Citation Overview Citation data for articles citing Bartsch.

  23. Cited references in Google Scholar • ‘Cited by’ data based on articles etc known to Google Scholar. • Entries ranked by number of cites. • Picks up citations in journals not covered by WoS or Scopus (especially non-English language), also conferences, books, dissertations/theses, PLUS unpublished items such as Powerpoint slides, blogs, webpages etc… • Not possible to sort, save sets or analyse.

  24. Items citing Bartsch

  25. Retrieve citations from wider variety of publication types Thesis Blog

  26. Non-English journals  But beware of false hits 

  27. How did they compare? • In October 2010: • Web of Science • 42 citing articles; 19 unique to WoS • Scopus • 45 citing articles; 10 unique to Scopus • Google Scholar • 117 citations; 79 unique • But beware of phantom citations • 19 references in common across the 3 databases.

  28. Other databases • Citing articles are a feature in many databases: • Medline, Embase, PsycInfo, BIOSIS Previews • …and other databases on the Ovid site • Full-text databases such as ScienceDirect, Wiley Online Library, JSTOR • Number of times it has been cited in that database. • Look for links such as “Cited by”, “Citing articles”

  29. Citation Alerts in WoS Create Citation Alert Next time it’s cited get an email (or set up RSS feed)

  30. Also has choice of Email alerts RSS feeds Citation Alerts in Scopus

  31. Quality or quantity? • Meho, L. I.; Yang, K. (2007). "Impact of Data Sources on Citation Counts and Rankings of LIS Faculty: Web of Science vs. Scopus and Google Scholar". • Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology58 (13): 2105–2125. • doi:10.1002/asi.20677

  32. Meho & Yang conclude: • WoSremains an indispensable citation database. • WoS and Scopus complement not replace each other. • Scopus and Google Scholar identify many citations not found in WoS. • GS unique citations not of same quality or weight, but could be useful in showing broader international impact .

  33. WoS/Scopus/G Scholar compared http://www2.hawaii.edu/~jacso/

  34. Bibliometrics • If you want to count or analyse your citations or ‘impact’, the best tools to use are • Web of Science • Scopus

  35. Here to help • Your Subject Librarian • www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/libraries/subjects/librarians • Radcliffe Science Library • www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/science • enquiries.rsl@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

  36. Over to you • Search for citations to your own work! • Start at SOLO http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk or OxLIP+http://oxlip-plus.bodleian.ox.ac.uk and open Web of Science or Scopus. • OR Try Web of Science tutorial – in the list atwww.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/science/training/tutorials

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