Library Workshop
Advanced Research Skills
Oct 2012
Outline
• Part One: Mastering Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of
Science)
– Search Basics
– Special Functions and Tools (Cited Reference Search, Analyze Tools,
etc)
– Author / Citation Tracking & Alerts
– Journal Impact Factor
• Part Two: Mastering SCOPUS
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Search Basics
Citation Research Functions in SCOPUS
Author / Citation Tracking & Alerts
H-Index
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Part One: Mastering Social
Sciences Citation Index
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Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science)
Help you answer questions like:
 What is the most highly cited article on Education Policy?
 Which journal has the highest number of articles on Sociolinguistics?
 Who are the top researchers in Chinese Politics?
 How many times my journal articles are cited?
…
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Web of Knowledge Databases
Web of Knowledge
Web of Science
Social Sciences
Citation Index
(SSCI)
Current Contents
Connect
Arts &
Humanities
Citation Index
(A&HCI)
Biological
Abstracts
Science Citation
Index Expanded
BIOSIS Previews
Conference
Proceedings
Citation Index
Other Databases
Other Databases
Journal
Citation Report
(JCR)
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Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)
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Essential data from over 4,500 leading social sciences journals across 50
disciplines
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Coverage: 1992-present
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Subject disciplines:
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Anthropology
Law
Psychiatry
Social Work
History
Linguistics
Political Science Sociology
Industrial Relations
Philosophy
Public Health
Substance Abuse
Information Science
& Library Science
Psychology
Social Issues
Urban Studies
Notes: we have an archive of Arts & Humanities Citation Index covering
1992 – Nov 2011 at a dedicated PC in the Library
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How to access
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Search the Library Catalogue, or
HKIEd Library Homepage > E-Resources
Search or Browse by alphabet
S (Social Sciences Citation Index) or W (Web of Science)
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Search Field
Operator
Year Range
Display Option
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Search Tips
Operator
AND
Example
Find records that contain …
theory AND practice
both terms
OR
theory OR conception
either term or both terms
NOT
theory NOT hypothesis
first term but not the second
theory NEAR/5 knowledge
terms within a specified number
of words (x) of each other
“knowledge economy”
exact phrase
*
child*
child, children, chidlhood
?
wom?n
woman, women
$
colo$r
color, colour
NEAR/x
“…”
Refine & Sorting Results
Sorting options
Refine search
Narrow results by
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Detailed View of A Record
Check for Full Text
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Save / Email / Print your search results
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Export Search Results
You can export the search records to different bibliographic management tools:
Export records to RefWorks at Web of Science
• Choose “Save to other Reference Software”
Import records to RefWorks
• Import filter = Hong Kong Institute of Education
• Database = Web of Science
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Cited References
Click "Cited References" to see the
References Cited by this Article
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Cited References of this Article
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Click "Times Cited" for Citing References
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Citing References (Articles that are Citing the Hallinger Article)
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Citation Hierarchy
2008
citing reference
2004
1997
2000
2005
2007
cited reference
citing reference
2003
cited reference
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"Related Records" – Other Articles Using At Least One Cited
References in the Hallinger Article
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Use Related Records to Identify Similar Articles
2,211 articles have at least one
common citation with this
Hallinger 1996 article
The more references the
articles share, the more
related they are
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Record
C
A is a “Cited Reference” of C,
i.e. A is cited by C
Record
A
Reference
Reference
Record
A is a “Citing
Reference” of B,
i.e. B is cited by A
Record
D
Reference
D is a “Related
Record” of A,
because B is cited
by both of them
Reference
B
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Exercise
1. Search for topics “social and cognitive development”
2. Refine with keywords “language”, “school”
3. Limit to “Article” document
How many records found?
What is the most highly cited record?
How many times this article is cited?
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Analysis Tools
Analyze Results
 extract citation data from a selected field (e.g. source title, country), and
produces a report showing the values in ranked order
Create Citation Report
 view aggregate citation statistics for a set of search results
 e.g. breakdown of citations over years, average citations per year
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Analysis Tools
Analysis tools
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1. Analyze Results
You can rank the search results with different field options
e.g. Rank the journals by
number of articles on this
topic
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2. Citation Report
Citation statistics
of records found
Most highly cited Article
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Exercise
Search for articles with topic “facebook”
Analyze Results
 How many articles are found?
 What is the source title with the highest no. of publications?
 How many percentage of articles are published in 2011?
Creation Citation Report
 How many times these articles have been cited?
 What is the average citations per year received by the top article?
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Cited Reference Search
To discover how the works of an author are being cited
• How many citations received?
• Cited by whom?
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How many times the works of Prof. Joshua Ka-ho Mok have been
cited in Web of Science?
Who have cited his works?
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Author Finder
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Go through the author sets and
select the relevant set(s) only
Set 2 seems relevant
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Go through the author sets and
select the relevant set(s) only
Click "View Records" when Finished
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Create Citation Report
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Cited Reference Search
• Important Note: Citation data by Web of Science are
only limited to citations recorded in the Web of
Science indexed publications
• Author Finder only finds the citation data for a
particular researcher’s publications that are indexed by
Web of Science. To include the researcher’s
publications not indexed in Web of Science, we need
to use the Cited Reference Search
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1 Enter all variant forms of author name
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3 Select records to search
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Times cited
Most highly
cited by
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Exercise
• How many times the works of Prof. Cheung Bing-leung
Anthony are cited?
• What is the year his articles are mostly cited?
Hints:
1. Use Cited Reference Search
2. Author = Cheung ABL
3. Use Analyze Results
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Sign In
As a registered user, you can take advantage of these features:
• Save your searches
• Set up search history alerts
• Set up citation alerts
• Access EndNote Web
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Citation Alert
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To receive an e-mail alert when an article on the list is cited in a new article
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Citation Alert
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View and change the setting of current alerts in My Citation Alerts
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Saved Searches
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Save the search history and re-run as necessary
Setup email alert for saved search queries
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Online Help
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Reference Materials
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Quick Reference Card
http://thomsonreuters.com/content/science/pdf/ssr/training/wok5_wos_qrc_en.pdf
 Social Sciences Citation Index Source Publications List
http://science.thomsonreuters.com/mjl/publist_ssci.pdf
 Online Tutorials
http://thomsonreuters.com/products_services/science/training/wos/
e.g. New Features Update
Web of Science Search Tips
Cited Reference Searching
Citation Report and H-index
Saving Search Histories and Creating Alerts
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Journal Impact Factor
Check Journal’s
Impact Factor
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Journal Impact Factor
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Sample Journal Citation Reports Record
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Sample Journal Citation Reports Record
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Journal Evaluation / Ranking
Look for Research Evaluation Metrics under Research
tab of the Library's Home Page for information and
links to resources like Journal Citations Report
(Impact Factors), SCImago (H-Index) and more
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Part Two: Mastering SCOPUS
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What is SCOPUS?
 A comprehensive abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed
literature and quality web sources.
 Over 19,000 titles from 5,000 publishers worldwide (90% peerreviewed journals).
 46 million records
 Broadest coverage
 Life Sciences (>4,300 titles)
 Physical Sciences (>7,200 titles)
 Health Sciences (>6,800 titles)
 Social Sciences and Humanities (>5,300 titles)
 Sources:
 Europe (52%)
 North America (32%)
 Asia, Australia & Pacific (11%)
 South America (3%)
 Middle East & Africa (2%)
 As a Citation Analysis Tool to evaluate:
 Authors, Institutions and Journals.
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Access via Library website: http://www.lib.ied.edu.hk/index_e-resources.php
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Search Interface
Scopus Search
Interface
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Search Basics
- use double quotes to search as phrase
- search for “Keywords” instead of “Article Title, Abstracts, Keywords” for
better precision
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Search Results
Add additional search terms, filter by
year, subjects, etc.
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We can also enter Additional Search Terms, use “Limit to”
Options (by year / document type / subject areas) in the
Search Form
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At the Results Screens: you can also change the Sorting Order
(Default Order is by Date)
Various Output Options like Export,
Print, Email or Create a Bibliography
Check EdLINK for Full Text
Availability
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Ordered by Most Cited
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Like SSCI, Citing
Articles are
Offered
Emails / RSS
Alerts can also
be Set Up
A SCOPUS Detailed Record
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Citing References
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Like SSCI, Related
Articles are Offered; In
addition, you can
choose which shared
references to use
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Related Documents based on
All Cited References
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Or we can Choose Only to Check
Related Documents Based on
Selected References
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A Different Set of Related
Documents based on Selected
References Only
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Export to RefWorks
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Output Records
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Personalization Features and Alerts
Must register own ID and log in to take
advantage of personalization features
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Personalization Features and Alerts
• With your personal SCOPUS Login, you can:
– Save your search history.
– Create your saved lists.
– Set up email keyword search alerts or email citation
alerts.
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Register / Login
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To view or change your
searches / alerts, click Alerts /
Settings
After logging in, you can
save your searches and
set up alerts
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Saved Searches
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Set Search Alert (Email)
A Search Alert is a saved search that you
can schedule to run daily, weekly or monthly.
You will receive an e-mail message with a
link into Scopus to access the new results.
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Set Search Alert (RSS)
You can use RSS readers (like RSSOwl,
Google Reader, etc) or even Outlook to
subscribe to a Scopus RSS feed.
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Citation Analysis of an Author
Citation Analysis of an Author: e.g. Michael Bond
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Citation Analysis of an Author
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Citation Analysis of an Author
112 publications; cited over 3,800
times by over 3,100 documents
Author Evaluator
h-index (23) for articles
published since 1996
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Citation Analysis of an Author
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Definition of h-index
An author has index h if h of his papers have at least
h citations each and the other papers have no more than h
citations each.
e.g. An author with an h-index of 20 means that each of 20 of his or her publications have
been cited for 20 or more times.
For example
The h-index for Bond, Michael Harris
(Considers Scopus articles published after 1996) = 21
(21 out of 82 documents have each been cited at least 21 times)
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Properties of the h-index
 Developed in 2005 by Jorge Hirsch, a condensed-matter
physicist (University of California in San Diego) and peace
activist.
 Easy to determine.
 Age of Author not taken into account.
Both junior and senior authors can have a high or low hindex.
 Ignores the highly & poorly cited papers – ‘one-hit wonders’.
 Dynamic, not a static number – can change as citations increase,
real-time in Scopus.
 Can be used to measure : Authors, Journals, Institutions,
Departments, Faculties, Selection of Papers … etc.
 Details of h-index at:
 http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0508025
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XRkKc-FZPc
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The h-index can be calculated manually by viewing all the
author’s documents in the Citation Tracker. Click on Sort
documents and select Citations in descending. Then scroll
down to where the rank of articles and the number of citedby’s meet: that’s the h-index for that author including
documents published from 1996 onwards.
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H-Index and Similar Analysis can be Applied at
Institution Level too
Institution to be analyzed
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Analyze and Evaluate Institution Output
Institution to be analyzed
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Analyze and Evaluate Institution Output
Click to browse all
documents
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Analyze and Evaluate Institution Output
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Journal Analyzer
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Journal Analyzer
SCImago Journal Rank (SJR indicator) is a measure of
scientific influence of scholarly journals that accounts for both
the number of citations received by a journal and the
importance or prestige of the journals where such citations
come from.
SJR chart weighted citations per document
SNIP = Source normalized impact per paper: corrects for
differences in the frequency of citation across research fields
Citations chart shows the total number of citations received
by a journal in the year, considering all documents.
Documents chart shows the total number of documents
published in the journal in the year.
Double click to select a journal title. A graph will appear on the other side showing citations,
documents, etc. of the title. Up to 10 journal titles could be selected for comparison at a time.
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