1. Bibliometrics toolkit: Thomson Reuters products
Thomson Reuters’ product set for bibliometrics and their range of products is very widely used
•The product suite includes Web of Science, Journal Citation Reports, Essential Science Indicators, InCites, ResearcherID and others – this poster covers the key resources
All Thomson Reuters products are subscription based and can be accessed at
Key facts
Thomson Reuters’ Web of Science includes several individual databases:
Web of Science Core Collection, includes:
Science Citation Index
Arts and Humanities Citation Index
Conference Proceedings Citation Index (Science & SSH)
Book Chapter Citation Index (Science & SSH)
Chemical Indexes
BIOSIS Citation Index & Previews
Current Contents Connect
Data Citation Index
Derwent Innovations Index (Patents)
Medline
Zoological Record
Korean Journal Database
SciELO Citation Index (Latin America, Spain, Portugal, Caribbean, South Africa)
Databases can be searched individually or together.
Cited Reference Search for an author or group – Find the articles that cite a person's work, analyse citing material by geography, discipline, document type. Includes citations found in indexed materials to any of the author’s work in any formats, not just to those journals and works picked for inclusion in the index .
Key facts
We have access to Citations date back to 1970 at the University of Southampton
12,000+ active journals covered; 64% in Science, 23% in Social Sciences, 13% in Arts & Humanities
Covers also 160,000+ Conference Proceedings in Science and 50,000+ selected books
Supports 256 disciplines
Some points and limitations to note
A highly selective range of high impact journals are included in this dataset
Open Access journals are poorly covered, despite some additions.
Edited books are included, but monographs are not
Strong English language and US and Western bias
Lack of standard author names – all result sets must be checked and pruned – tools are provided to help pick all variant forms of an author name
Lack of standard affiliation details, and only three organisations can be attributed to each individual author which is not always enough for a whole career
Main alternative citation data sources for comparison
Scopus from Elsevier.
Google Scholar with Publish or Perish software application or Scholarometer add-on for Firefox/Chrome
Subject specialist databases with citation information, available in some fields - Life Sciences get better coverage in Medline for example, Computer Science in CiteseerX or ACM
Create a citation report for an author – Includes publications and citations per year, and h-index for the author. These reports use only citations to materials in the select titles indexed in the product itself for the calculations.
Check citations for an individual article – Get a count of cites for an individual article, view the citing articles, obtain a citation map.
InCites is a citation-based evaluation tool to analyze research output by individual authors, groups of authors or institutions and benchmark against peers in a national or international context.
InCites analytics are based on Web of Science data back to 2004.
Cited Reference Search for a journal – Find all the articles citing materials in a particular journal title, limiting to a date range of publication if desired, and obtain a citation report for the journal content including publications and citations per year, and h-index for the journal. (Note: This is limited to 10,000 records)
For information about this product check the datasheet Journal Ranking Tools
Provides a compilation of Top Papers, Highly Cited Papers and Hot Papers for individual authors, institutions, journals or within a specific research field extrapolated from counts of articles published in scholarly journals and the citations to those articles.
Showing top 1% and 5% of research in the various fields
Covers 22 fields of science
Uses a rolling 10 year trend analysis and updates every 2 months to progressively expand the current year
Tracks trends and performance in basic research using select data from Essential Science Indicators.
Creates Global Research Reports for selected countries or regions
Website: Last edited: 25 May 2015 (Edited for University of Southampton Nov 2016)