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It’s big (coverage & time)
It’s interdisciplinary
It’s free (to you…)
It’s only a click away
It does some “tricks” that
nothing else can do
Web of Knowledge
Web of Science
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MEDLINE
Journal Citation Reports
Other stuff we can’t get to because we didn’t pay for it
Because it’s too pricey
Because we have it in some other platform
Other stuff we don’t want to talk about today
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Web of Science
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MEDLINE
Journal Citation Reports
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astronomy
electronics
communications
ergonomics
computers & computing
computer science
control engineering
electrical engineering
information technology
physics
Intensive care and Wireless
Respiratory Monitoring System on the Basis of
Capacitive Textile Force Sensors
Wireless and batteryless blood pressure sensor
Design of wireless sensor system for neonatal
monitoring
Non-invasive Blood Oxygen Saturation Monitoring
for Neonates Using Reflectance Pulse Oximeter
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Emergency Room Triage
Patient safety management: RFID technology to
improve emergency room medical care quality
Process simulation of triage for emergency
medicine under huge disaster
A Zero-Footprint 3D Visualization System Utilizing
Mobile Display Technology for Timely Evaluation of
Stroke Patients
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Use of neural networks to predict adverse
outcomes from acute coronary syndrome for male
and female patients
RFID in Hospitals
Leveraging complex event processing for smart
hospitals using RFID
No room for error: RFID-enabled smart point-ofcare medication process in hospital wards
Dual-frequency Active RFID Solution for Tracking
Patients in a Children's Hospital
An Activity Theory Analysis of RFID in Hospitals
Stage implementation of RFID in hospitals
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Redesigning the replenishment process of medical
supplies in hospitals with RFID
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MEDLINE
Radio Waves
Equipment Design
Product Labeling
Automatic Data Processing
Patient Identification Systems
Computer Aided Design
Materials Management Hospital
Telemetry
MEDLINE
Social Responsibility
Quality Assurance Health Care
Health Care Reform
Delivery of Health Care
Quality of Health Care
Models Organizational
Managed Care Programs
Primary Health Care
MEDLINE
Patient Centered Care
Models Organizational
Hospital Restructuring
Efficiency Organizational
Total Quality Management
Organizational Innovation
Patient Satisfaction
Delivery of Health Care Integrated
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Cited by…
Times cited…
Which one
is better…?
• Google Scholar’s simplicity may
actually be a boon
• Some institutions cannot afford
Web of Science
• Google Scholar offers some
non-periodical sources
• Google-Scholar is much more
clumsy to use, if you’re going to
collect (download & analyze)
citation data
• Google-Scholar is valuable for
international and different
formats
• Don’t trust Google Scholar to
sort properly, detect duplicates,
etc.
• Google scholar looks at nonscholarly sources, and this can
be useful, or a distraction
• Accuracy of Google Scholar is
lower…
• Web of Science is criticized for
being American-based, Englishlanguage
• Google Scholar is better at
finding citing sources in nonEnglish literature from Africa,
Asia and Central and South
America.
• All three tools yielded unique
material
• There’s no simple solution
1994
1999
2000
A certain
published
paper,
2004
2002
2003
… Time …
2005
2008
2011
2012
ROBIN LARSON
ELLIOTT FISHER
Robin &
Elliott’s
paper,
2004
… Time …
18 papers,
from 2005
to 2011
40
papers,
from
1976 to
2003
Robin &
Elliott’s
paper,
2004
… Time …
18 papers,
from 2005
to 2011
40
papers,
from
1976 to
2003
Robin &
Elliott’s
paper,
2004
… Time …
18 papers,
from 2005
to 2011
Web of Knowledge
Web of Science
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MEDLINE
Journal Citation Reports
Web of Knowledge
Web of Science
• Science Citation Index (1899-present)
• Social Sciences Citation Index (1956present)
• Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975present)
Impact Factor
How many times
were these articles
cited this year
# of articles
published in the
Journal in previous
two years
How many times were
these articles cited
this year
# of articles
published in the
Journal in previous
two years
Impact Factor
How many
times were
these articles
cited this year
# of articles
published in the
Journal in previous
two years
Amim, M and Mabe, M (2007) Impact factors: use and abuse
Amim, M and Mabe, M (2007) Impact factors: use and abuse
Amim, M and Mabe, M (2007) Impact factors: use and abuse
Amim, M and Mabe, M (2007) Impact factors: use and abuse
Eigenfactor Score
• Times articles from a journal have been cited
over past 5 years
– Gives more weight to highly cited journals
– Journal self citations are removed
– The scores of all JCR journals add up to be 100
Article Influence Score
• A weighted 5 year impact factor
– Normalized so the average influence score = 1
See Eigenfactor.org for more information