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Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 2 A very brief history of the citation index The concept of the citation index was first developed by Dr Eugene Garfield and his concept was published in an article in the Journal Science in 1955 In the 1961 Dr Garfield created a Genetics Citation Index at the request of the National Institute of Health. As a consequence of this project Dr Garfield was able to start the product of a multi- disciplinary Science Citation Index (SCI) in SCI Print

Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 3 The Science Citation Index was born and over the years developed from print in the 1960’s, On-line with Dialog in the 1970’s, CD-ROM in the 1980’s and finally a web interface in 1997 At the same time the content was enhanced and the Social Sciences Citation Index was released in 1973 covering journals from 1956, the Arts & Humanities Citation Index was released in 1978 covering journals from 1975 and the Century of Science in 2004 covering science journals back to A very brief history of the citation index SCI-CD Title: EXTRATERRESTRIAL CAUSE FOR THE CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY EXTINCTION - EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS AND THEORETICAL INTERPRETATION Author(s): ALVAREZ LW; ALVAREZ W; ASARO F; MICHEL HV Journal: SCIENCE, 1980, V208, N4448, P ?e cr=alvarez l, 198 Ref Items Index-term E1 1 CR=ALVAREZ L, 1979, V7, P66, GEOLOGY E2 1 CR=ALVAREZ L, 1979, V80, P433, COMM MATH PHYS E3 0 *CR=ALVAREZ L, 198 E4 4 CR=ALVAREZ L, 1980, P1, NONLINEAR DIFFUSION E5 1 CR=ALVAREZ L, 1980, P96, INT C PEDIAT LAB MED E6 1 CR=ALVAREZ L, 1980, V205, P1095, SCIENCE E7 1 CR=ALVAREZ L, 1980, V208, P1078, SCIENCE E8 2 CR=ALVAREZ L, 1980, V208, P1094, SCIENCE E9 2 CR=ALVAREZ L, 1980, V208, P1095, SCIENCE Enter P or PAGE for more Title: EXTRATERRESTRIAL CAUSE FOR THE CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY EXTINCTION - EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS AND THEORETICAL INTERPRETATION Author(s): ALVAREZ LW; ALVAREZ W; ASARO F; MICHEL HV Journal: SCIENCE, 1980, V208, N4448, P ?e cr=alvarez l, 198 Ref Items Index-term E1 1 CR=ALVAREZ L, 1979, V7, P66, GEOLOGY E2 1 CR=ALVAREZ L, 1979, V80, P433, COMM MATH PHYS E3 0 *CR=ALVAREZ L, 198 E4 4 CR=ALVAREZ L, 1980, P1, NONLINEAR DIFFUSION E5 1 CR=ALVAREZ L, 1980, P96, INT C PEDIAT LAB MED E6 1 CR=ALVAREZ L, 1980, V205, P1095, SCIENCE E7 1 CR=ALVAREZ L, 1980, V208, P1078, SCIENCE E8 2 CR=ALVAREZ L, 1980, V208, P1094, SCIENCE E9 2 CR=ALVAREZ L, 1980, V208, P1095, SCIENCE Enter P or PAGE for more SciSearch on Dialog

Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation The Web of Science Story Science Citation Index SciSearch Social Sciences Citation Index SCI-CD ISI Web of Knowledge Century of Science Arts & Humanities Citation Index Web of Science: v3 v4 v5 v6 v7

Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 5 The power of hyperlinks and web navigation made for an intuitive and easy to use interface for citation data. The Web of Science was an instant success and for the first time made citation searching widely available for all types of users. Web of Science

Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 6 More than 2,900 Web of Science customers in 90 countries Europe, Middle East & Africa 1,593 customers in 50 countries North America 739 customers in 2 countries Latin America 243 customers in 12 countries Asia-Pacific 331 customers in 26 countries

Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 7 Analysis Alerting Full text links CrossSearch Multidisciplinary Citation searching Quality content Editorial content Specialized indexing Powerful Search tools Evaluation, Comparison Decision making aids Collate

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10 DiversityQuality Diversity: Truly Multidisciplinary –All fields of research are included in over 200 categories –8,600+ journals total  Over 6,100 titles in the hard sciences alone (SCIe)  Social sciences – 1790 titles  Arts & humanities – 1125 titles Web of Science

Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 11 DiversityQuality Quality: Evaluated, Selected Content –Every Web of Science journal is individually selected for influence within its respective discipline. –Our selection criteria is unbiased, impartial, time-tested.  We are “Publisher-Neutral”, evaluating research – Commercial, Society, Open Access publications, etc. Web of Science

Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 12 A closer look: Journal Selection Process Why be selective? –Economically impractical to cover everything –Analysis of citation data has shown that a core of 2,000 journals account for about 85% of all that is published and 95% of what is cited. –However this core is not static, and additional journals must be included. Thomson Scientific covers this expanded core of journals and enhances it with coverage of hot disciplines that may become main-stream in the future. Additional journals are indexed to provide a broad and even distribution of data across all disciplines and geographic regions.

Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 13 Thomson Scientifics editorial staff review around 2,000 new journals annually % of these journals are added to the collection. Existing database constantly monitored to ensure that journals are maintaining high standards Many factors, are taken into account: –Basic publishing standards Timeliness Follows publishing conventions English language bibliographic information Peer Review –Editorial content Will it enrich the database? Is it a hot topic? –International diversity of authorship –Citation analysis Impact Factor, Immediacy index How the journal compares to other journals in its field Citation analysis of editorial board A closer look: Journal Selection Process

Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 14 DiversityQuality Unique Data Data: unique capabilities –Navigate “Cited References” and “Times Cited” backward and forward in time across decades of research. –Find articles that cannot be found through traditional free-text searching techniques –Gauge the impact of a particular article by measuring the citation counts Web of Science

Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation Cited References Times Cited Related Records  Citing  From just a single record within the Web of Science, expand your search by simply following the links designed to drive discovery. … moving Backward in time via Cited References, Forward in time via Times Cited, and expand your search with Related Records. Citation Navigation

Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 16 Citation Index - The Value Add The language of science is always changing, concepts and terminology continue to evolve Free-text searching alone will never maximize retrieval of critical information… LAV (in Europe) HTLV-III (in USA) Human Immunodeficiency virus HIV (the world) Present For Example, the early research connecting HIV to AIDS actually referred to the virus using two different terms. Neither term was “HIV”

Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 17 DiversityQuality Unique Data Depth Depth! –Coverage back to 1900 in the Sciences, to 1956 in the Social Sciences, to 1975 in Arts & Humanities –All data has been indexed in house using the same systems and techniques so the high quality coverage and selectivity is maintained throughout Web of Science

Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 18 DiversityQuality Unique Data Depth Over 200 disciplines covered in over 8,600 journals Editorial selection of core high impact journals Over 100 years of Author Citation information Coverage back to 1900 in the hard sciences Unmatched Elsewhere No other resource offers the level of selectivity and editorial quality found within Web of Science journal content Unmatched Elsewhere No other resource offers the level of selectivity and editorial quality found within Web of Science journal content Unavailable Elsewhere Access to such a diverse, deep, influential collection with navigable cited reference links across 105+ years Unavailable Elsewhere Access to such a diverse, deep, influential collection with navigable cited reference links across 105+ years Web of Science

Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 19 The capture of Author Cited References for over 100 years of data provides for unique features of searching and navigation -Track research pathways through time -Expand a search using Related Records -Gauge the impact of a paper using citation counts Unique Data

Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 20 Web of Science 7.0 – Home Page Redesign Easy to use and intuitive interface, can use with little or no instruction

Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 21 Web of Science 7.0. New - “Term Lists” provide user- friendly assistance in defining and adding terms to the search. New – General Search “Group Author “ field.

Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 22 Cited Reference Search To be truly comprehensive in your search efforts, the Cited Reference Search is essential in that it can retrieve information often missed through use of Key-words alone.

Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 23 Advanced Search option is available for those comfortable with “command line” style search queries. Search History presents a simple “Combine Sets” option for fine-tuning results. New fields

Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 24 Search Results Search over 34 million records since Easily navigate Thousands of Records, Deep into the Web of Science back file. Enhanced “Mark” features.

Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 25 New -- Results Analysis Tool Recognize trends and access subsets by: Author Document Type Institution Language Publication Years Source Titles Journal Categories Refine results like never before.

Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 26 Complete bibliographic information in an easy to read format.

Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 27 Integration & Navigation, key advantages of the Web of Knowledge Platform. Link to the publisher’s full-text, other external resources

Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 28 Integration & Navigation, key advantages of the Web of Knowledge Platform. Expand your search to other resources available within the ISI Web of Knowledge

Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 29 Go to Current Contents Connect Go to BIOSIS Previews Current Contents Connect CC Connect Table-of-Contents BIOSIS Previews Journal Citation Reports Navigate through citations. Follow the research pathways to get a comprehensive history of a breakthrough. Use related records to expand your search.

Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 30 Go to Current Contents Connect Go to BIOSIS Previews Current Contents Connect CC Connect Table-of-Contents BIOSIS Previews Journal Citation Reports For Related Records; Web of Science 7.0 presents the number of references shared by related papers – a proven method for gauging relevance.

Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 31 New - Citation Alert! The Web of Science includes a vast number of influential papers. Take advantage of the depth of this resource. Should a record seem especially relevant, Web of Science 7.0 allows the user to quickly and Easily create a Citation Alert – receive an automated alert every time this article is cited.

Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 32 Chemical Structure searching is also available

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