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:
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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
2010
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Later
papers
that cite
“your”
paper
Papers that share
one or more citation
in common - related
2009 2010
2006
2008
2008
1980
1870
2007
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Earlier
papers
referred to
in “your”
paper
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
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-
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
WOS: Search
WOS: Results
Times cited
More information
including citation
history
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)
WOS: Citing articles
Where did WOS find the citations?
Analyze / Create
Citation Report
WOS “Analyze results”
Analyse by author,
institution, source
(journal), grant
number etc
WOS: Citation Report
Citation data for
articles citing
Bartsch
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)
WOS cited reference search
Look up correct abbreviation –
must be exactly right
WOS Cited reference search
Picks up variant citations
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).
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
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by other articles in Scopus
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since 1996.
Times cited in Scopus
NB ‘since 1996’
Analysing citing articles
1. Tick box next to
article title.
2. Click View
Citations.
3. Tick All box, to select all
the citing articles.
4. Click on View Citation
Overview.
Citation Overview
Citation data for articles citing Bartsch.
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.
Items citing Bartsch
Retrieve citations from wider
variety of publication types
Thesis
Blog
Non-English journals 
But beware of false hits

How did they compare?
• 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
•
117 citations; 79 unique
•
But beware of phantom citations
• 19 references in common across the 3 databases.
Other databases
• Citing articles are a feature in many databases:
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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”
Citation Alerts in WoS
Create Citation Alert
Next time it’s cited get an
email (or set up RSS feed)
Citation Alerts in Scopus
•Also has choice
of
•Email alerts
•RSS feeds
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 Technology 58
(13): 2105–2125.
• doi:10.1002/asi.20677
Meho & Yang conclude:
• WoS remains 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 .
WoS/Scopus/G Scholar compared
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~jacso/
Bibliometrics
•If you want to count or analyse your
citations or ‘impact’, the best tools to
use are
•Web of Science
•Scopus
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
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 at
www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/science/training/tutorials