Angela Carritt & Juliet Ralph angela.carritt@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
juliet.ralph@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
March 2011

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

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

• 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

• 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
• Coverage: thousands of journals, conference papers, review papers, notes of meetings, letters, book reviews, art exhibits, poetry…but not books (yet!)

• 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

• General
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• quick and easy but may be incomplete
• can also search for book reviews
• Cited Reference search
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Thorough – picks up variant citations
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Includes books (cited by papers on WOS)
Includes publications that pre date the citation indexes (cited by WOS)

• Coming soon…second quarter of 2011
• Initially 25,000 book titles
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Scholarly titles containing original research (not text books etc)
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• back to 2005 for Sciences back to 2003 for Social Sciences / Humanities
• Includes references, footnotes, bibliographies

• Huge bibliographic database covering
• 18,000 scholarly journals & conference proceedings in
• Science, Medicine, Social sciences & Humanities
• www.scopus.com
• “View references” displays the article’s bibliography.
• “ Citations ” column indicates times the article was cited
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• by other articles in Scopus since 1996.

• References include ‘cited by’ data based on articles 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), plus conferences, books, dissertations/theses, unpublished items such as Powerpoint shows etc…
• Not possible to sort, save sets or analyse

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

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

or set up an RSS feed

•Also has choice of
•Email alerts
•RSS feeds

• 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 Technology 58
(13): 2105 –2125.
• doi : 10.1002/asi.20677

•Google Scholar identified more citations than Web of Science and
Scopus combined
• but most of those extra ones were from low-impact journals or conference proceedings.

• Web of Science - strong coverage of journal publications, but poor coverage of high impact conferences.
• Scopus - better coverage of conferences, but poor coverage of publications prior to 1996.
• Google Scholar - best coverage of conferences and most journals (though not all), but like
Scopus has limited coverage of pre-1990 publications.

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

• Your Subject Librarian
• Radcliffe Science Library
• www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/science
• enquiries.rsl@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

• Try an online tutorial from the list at www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/science/training/tutorials
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Web of Science
• Or do your own search on Web of Science or Scopus
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Start at SOLO http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
or OxLIP+ http://oxlip-plus.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
and search for database name