1. Introduction to citation analysis

Citation Analysis lunch seminar, 4 May 2012

LTH Libraries

Lars Andersson, Maria Johnsson

Lund University / Presentation 2010

Agenda

1. Introduction to citation analysis

2. Demonstration of some systems for citation searching

3. Other tools and applications and further training

4. Discussion


1. Introduction to citation analysis

”A professor asks you, ”Who is citing my articles? How many times have I been cited?

What is my h-index score?”

A student asks you, ”How do I know if this article is important?”

Another professor asks you, ”Which journal should I publish in for my tenure?”

A different students asks you, ”What are the best journals in the field of Anthropology?”

Robin Kear & Danielle Colbert-Lewis 2011, "Citation searching and bibliometric measures: Resources for ranking and tracking", College & Research Libraries News, vol. 72, no. 8



Historical background of citation index:

• 1873, ”Shepard’s Citations” was the first citation system, created by

Frank Shepard (law)

• 1960, Eugene Garfield’s Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) introduced the first citation index for papers published in academic journals called ”Science Citation Index (SCI)”

• During the 1970s and 1980s ”Science Citation Index” developed from print to digital form

• 1997, ISI launched ”Web of Science”, the web-based interface of

”Science Citation Index”

Sources:

Stephanie Ballard & Marcia Henry 2006, "CITATION SEARCHING: New Players, New Tools", Searcher, vol. 14, no. 9

Robin Kear & Danielle Colbert-Lewis 2011, "Citation searching and bibliometric measures: Resources for ranking and tracking", College & Research Libraries News, vol. 72, no. 8



Definition of citation index:

”A citation index is a kind of bibliographic database, an index of citations between publications, allowing the user to easily establish which later documents cite which earlier documents”.

Source: WIKIPEDIA. Citation index



Cited references

• are always retrospective in nature

• pointing to documents in the past

Citing references

• are always prospective in nature

• referring to previously published documents used by subsequent authors writing at a future time




3. Other tools and applications

Examples of applications at SciVerse (Elsevier):

”Co-author analyzer”

”Co-author visualizer”

Read more at: http://www.applications.sciverse.com/action/gallery?pageOrigin=app

Gallery&zone=header

Examples of tools at Web of Knowledge (Thomson Reuters):

• Citation map

• Citation report

• ”My Citation alerts”

• ”Scientific Web Plus”

Read more at: http://apps.webofknowledge.com.ludwig.lub.lu.se/


3. Further training and tutorials

Sciverse/Scopus (Elsevier): http://hubhelp.sciverse.com/flare/Content/tutorials

/ICS_Hub_menu.html

Web of Knowledge (Thomson Reuters): http://wokinfo.com/training_support/training/


3. Further reading

• HAMMOND, C. C. & BROWN, S. W. 2008. Citation

Searching: Search Smarter & Find More. Computers in

Libraries, 28, 10-12.

• ROBIN, K. & DANIELLE, C.-L. 2011. Citation searching and bibliometric measures: Resources for ranking and tracking.

College & Research Libraries News, 72, 470.

• STEPHANIE, B. & MARCIA, H. 2006. CITATION SEARCHING:

New Players, New Tools. Searcher, 14, 24.

• WIKIPEDIA. Citation index [Online]. Available: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citation_index [Accessed

2012-05-02.


4. Discussion

Questions:

1. Would you use citation searching in the future? If yes, in what way / for which purpose?

2. What is your impression of the tools and applications? Useful? Not useful?


Next researchers’ seminar:

Publish via open access

Tuesday 15 May at 14-16pm

Suggestions/ideas for new seminars?

Let us know, send an e-mail to: maria.johnsson@bibliotek.lth.se


Thanks for joining in today!

Maria Johnsson,

LTH Libraries

E-mail: maria.johnsson@bibliotek.lth.se

Lars Andersson,

Library of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

E-mail: Lars_A_H.Andersson@chemeng.lth.se


1. Introduction to citation analysis

Citation Analysis lunch seminar, 4 May 2012

Agenda