Library Workshop Searching Social Sciences Citation Index

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? … Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science)

Web of Knowledge Databases Web of Knowledge Web of Science Current Contents Connect Biological Abstracts Other Databases BIOSIS Previews Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI) Science Citation Index Expanded Conference Proceedings Citation Index Other Databases Journal Citation Report (JCR)

Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)  Essential data from over 4,500 leading social sciences journals across 50 disciplines  Coverage: 1992-present  Subject disciplines: AnthropologyLawPsychiatrySocial Work HistoryLinguisticsPolitical ScienceSociology Industrial RelationsPhilosophyPublic HealthSubstance Abuse Information Science & Library Science PsychologySocial IssuesUrban Studies

Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI)  Indexes over 2,300 arts and humanities journals  Coverage: 1992-present  Subject disciplines: ArchaeologyDanceLiterary ReviewsRadio, Television & Film ArchitectureFolkloreLiteratureReligion ArtHistoryMusicTheatre Asian StudiesLanguagePhilosophy ClassicsLinguisticsPoetry

How to access 1.Search the Library Catalogue, or 2.HKIEd Library Homepage > E-Resources  Search or Browse by alphabet  A (A&HCI) or S (SSCI) or W (Web of Science)

SSCI, Web of Science  Citation Search  Cited Reference Search  Save & Output Search Results  Citation Analysis Tools  Citation Alert  Save and run the search periodically

Citation Hierarchy cited reference citing reference cited reference

Database Year Operator Search Field Display Option

Search Tips OperatorExampleFind records that contain … ANDtheory AND practiceboth terms ORtheory OR conceptioneither term or both terms NOTtheory NOT hypothesisfirst term but not the second NEAR/xtheory NEAR/5 knowledgeterms within a specified number of words (x) of each other “…”“knowledge economy”exact phrase *child*child, children, chidlhood ?wom?nwoman, women $colo$rcolor, colour

Refine & Sorting Results Sorting options Refine search Narrow results by

Record A Record A Reference Record B Record B Record D Record D Reference D is a “Related Record” of A, because B is cited by both of them Record C Record C A is a “Cited Reference” of C, i.e. A is cited by C A is a “Citing Reference” of B, i.e. B is cited by A

Records with common references Found Record Check for Full Text Check Journal’s Impact Factor

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?

Save your search results

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

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

Analysis Tools Analysis tools

You can rank the search results with different field options e.g. Rank the journals by number of articles on this topic 1. Analyze Results

Citation statistics of records found 2. Citation Report Most highly cited Article

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?

Cited Reference Search To discover how the works of an author are being cited How many citations received? Cited by whom?

How many times the works of Prof. Joshua Ka-ho Mok have been cited in Web of Science? Who have cited his works?

1 Enter all variant forms of author name 2 3 Select records to search 4

Times cited Most highly cited by

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

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

Citation Alert  To receive an alert when an article on the list is cited in a new article

Citation Alert  View and change the setting of current alerts in My Citation Alerts

Saved Searches  Save the search history and re-run as necessary  Setup alert for saved search queries

Online Help

Reference Materials  Quick Reference Card  Social Sciences Citation Index Source Publications List  Online Tutorials 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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