Citation Indexing – Workshop for Researchers

Citation Indexing – Workshop for Researchers

Citation Indexing – Workshop for researchers Produced by the Department of Learning and Information Services November 2014 Session coverage • Overview of how Citation Counting & measuring impact can help • Journal Citation Reports • Web of Science • Scopus • Google Scholar Research Development Wheel Citation Counting & Impact in Context Journal/Article Impact Factors • Impact factors can show the effect/influence of a piece of research in a particular area by seeing how many times others have cited it • Knowing the impact of a journal can help in decisions about where to submit an article. High impact journals are seen more • Re articles-Warning – just because an article has been cited a lot does not prove high quality- could be controversial Publishing in Scholarly journals • “I need to publish in high impact journals” • The REF • High Impact journals have a higher reputation Tools JCR for Journal Impact/ Web of Science for Citation Counts • JCR – This tool helps you check impact at journal and discipline level. Available in Science and Social Sciences editions. (Alternatives in Scopus- under Analyze Journals -SJR- SCImago Journal Rank- shows prestige of a journal- & SNIP-Source Normalized Impact per paper- weighs citations ) • WOS – database of articles. Authoritative, multidisciplinary content covers over 12,000 of the highest impact journals worldwide etc. • -Citation Counts -can provide proof of being read, or at least noticed. ( You can also do this in Scopus, & Google Scholar) Journal Citation Reports (JCR) (Journal Impact Factors) • Applied to individual journals and represent the average citation counts of papers published in an individual journal during a specified time (2 years or 5 years) • Where can I find Journal impact factors? • Journal Citation Reports (Web of Science), go through Databases A-Z (http://www.wlv.ac.uk/lib/resources.aspx) – Can search for an individual journal or view a group of journals by subject category (Education & Educational Research, Nursing, Psychology) • Test your skills: Journal Citation Reports • 1. Perform a subject category search in JCR on your specialist subject for 2013 • 2.Sort the results by impact factor • 3.Add them to your marked list • Test your skills: Web of Science • Perform an author search for Jamal Khatib, University of Wolverhampton • How many documents has he published? • Which is his most cited article? • Test your skills: Scopus • Perform an affiliation search for the University of Wolverhampton • Who is our top collaborator? • Which source published most of our articles? Research pages including guidance on- Impact • http://www.wlv.ac.uk/lib/research.aspx e.g. Journal Impact Factors -Journal impact factors are applied to journals and represent the average citation counts of papers published in that journal during a two year time frame. Number of times articles published in Cell during 2007-2008 were cited in indexed journals during 2009 –––––––––-–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Number of “citable” articles published in Cell in 2008 and 2007 That is: Cites in 2009 to items published in 2008 + 2007 = 9533 + 12554 = 22087 Number of items published in Cell in 2008 + 2007 = 343 + 366 = 709 Impact = Cites to recent items …………………………….22087 = 31.152 Factor Number of recent items published……….. 709 Look within subjects/disciplines, or specific journals http://www.wlv.ac.uk/lib/resources.aspx Journal Citation Reports • You can go straight here from our Databases A-Z – choose the letter ‘J’ JCR Journal impact factors- showing which journals have the highest impact- those with highest impact likely to be most read, and cited, therefore spreading your research further See the impact of a specific journal JCR Impact factors of ‘Nature’ Look within subjects/disciplines See the highest impacts in a subject discipline, e.g. ‘Nature’ is ‘Multidisciplinary Sciences Think about which might be the highest impact factor journal in your own disciplines- • Oncology? • Engineering: Chemical? • GeoSciences? Impact of journals in Scopus Web of Science • Select this from our Databases A-Z – choose the letter ‘W’ WOS Citation Reports- seeing the amount of times an author or their work have been cited- provides evidence that you are being read and cited. Find info on an ‘author’ from the ‘University of Wolverhampton’ Create a Citation Report Citation Report Search for specific references As with all useful things you find you can save/send to RefWorks etc. H-Index & Citation Counts see Impact advice from Researchers pages • The H-index is a calculation of how many times a researcher’s papers have been cited. • E.g. an H-index of 27 means that the researcher has published 27 papers which have all been cited at least 27 times by other papers. • The H-index can help to measure the impact of a researchers work and compare individuals within the same discipline, especially relevant to the sciences. • A Citation Count is the number of times an article is cited by other articles. Alternatives to Journal Citation Reports • SJR - SCImago Journal • SNP - Source Rank - based on the belief Normalised Impact per that ‘not all citations are Paper - The SNP measures created equal’. citation impact by weighting • Takes into account the citations based on the total differences in citation behaviour number of citations in a subject between subject fields and is field. weighted by the prestige of the journal, meaning that a citation • Where do I find the SJR? from a journal with a high SJR is worth more than one with a Scopus or low SJR. http://www.scimagojr.com/ Summary • JCR – long established • SJR & SNP – can be used alongside the JCR or when a journal is not included in the JCR (British Journal of Midwifery) • Helpful for – finding where to publish Citation index in Scopus Google Scholar Citations .

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