1. Citation Searching and Journal Rankings
15 Mar 2017

2. Outline Part 1: InCites Journal Citation Reports
Part 2: Web of Science (Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts & Humanities Citation Index)
Part 3: Scopus
Part 4: Q&A

3. InCites Journal Citation Reports

4. InCites Journal Citation Reports
InCites Journal Citation Reports includes citation data drawn from approximately 12,000 scholarly and technical journals and conference proceedings from more than 3,300 publishers in over 60 countries.
It covers almost all specialties in science, technology, and the social sciences and enables the evaluation and comparison of journals to identify the top ranked and highest impact journals in a particular field.
It provides dynamic, interactive features supported by visualizations of JCR indicators that allow researchers to compare, evaluate and inform their decisions on published research in varying fields. 4

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6. Finding a Journal in JCR
Enter your requested journal in the search box, e.g. Learning and Instruction
Select the JCR year and the edition(s) of SCIE / SSCI or other fields 6

8. Key Indicators Provided by JCR
Total Cites
Impact Factor
5-Year Impact Factor
Immediacy Index
Cited Half-Life
Citing Half-Life
Eigenfactor Score
Article Influence Score
and more ……
In this workshop, we shall focus on the meaning of Impact Factor, which has been the most widely used JCR indicator for journal ranking. 8

9. What is Journal Impact Factor?
Journal Impact Factor is a simple statistics intended to reflect the “impact” of a journal. Basically it indicates the average number of times an article published in the particular journal during the past two years was being cited.
Journal Impact Factor is based on the InCites Journal Citation Reports which is updated on annual basis. 9

10. Below is only a simplified explanation of the metrics
Below is only a simplified explanation of the metrics. For definitions and details, click the help in the JCR journal report pages
Total Cites
Total number of citations for this journal in the JCR year
Impact Factor
On average, how many times an article in this journal is being cited – based on articles published in the two previous years
5-Year Impact Factor
On average, how many times an article in this journal is being cited – based on articles published in the five previous years
Immediacy Index
On average, how many times an article in this journal is being cited in the same year – based on last year's data (reflects more about the nature of the subject than journal quality)
Cited Half-Life
Indicates how far back the older articles in this journal are still being cited (reflects more about the nature of the subject than journal quality) 10

11. Below is only a simplified explanation of the metrics
Below is only a simplified explanation of the metrics. For definitions and details, click the help in the JCR journal report pages
Citing Half-Life
Indicates how recent or how old the bibliography referred by articles in this journal are (reflects more about the nature of the subject than journal quality)
Eigenfactor Score
The Eigenfactor Score is some kinds of enhanced 5-year impact factor – by giving higher score for getting cited in more influential journals and eliminates self-citation
Article Influence Score
The Article Influence Score is derived from the Eigenfactor Score based on matching the share of the journal's influence against the share of the journal's share of articles. The neutral influence score is 1.00 – thus a journal with article influence score greater than 1.00 indicates that each article in the journal has above-average influence and vice versa 11

12. Impact Factor for Different JCR Years12

13. No. of items published in 2013 or 2014
Working Example: Impact Factor of Learning and Instruction (JCR SSCI 2015) = 3.692
Impact Factor =
No. of Cites to 2013 or 2014 items in 2015
No. of items published in 2013 or 2014 13

14. Impact Factor Trend of a Journal

15. Journal Ranking by Impact Factor by JCR Subject Category
By default, journals are ranked by its current impact factor by subject
NOTE:
A journal can belong to more than one subject category; and therefore it is possible for a journal to have different ranks

16. The Meaning of Quartiles in JCR 16

17. Journal Ranking by Impact Factor by JCR Subject Category

18. e.g. 231 journals under the category of education & educational research

20. To Save the Journal Data of a List of Journals
Click on the “Customize indicators” button to add more other indicators

21. Export the report to excel

22. Journal Title Change
Covers title changes occurring in the past two years (that is, the JCR year and the preceding year).

23. Hands-on Practice
What is the Journal Impact Factor for the journal Early Childhood Research Quarterly?
What subject categories does the journal Early Childhood Research Quarterly belong to? What are the Impact Factor of these subject categories? What are the respective subject rankings of Early Childhood Research Quarterly in the respective subject categories?
What is the full name of the highest ranked journal under the subject category “family studies" in JCR 2015 Social Sciences Edition? What is its Impact Factor? 23

24. Additional Information
About InCites Journal Citation Reports
InCites Journal Citation Reports Help
Journal Selection Process
Web of Science Training 24

25. Web of Science (Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts & Humanities Citation Index)

26. Web of Science (Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts & Humanities 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? …… 26

27. Web of Science Summary
Web of Science Core Collection include citations from:
• Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-Expanded) • Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) • Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI) • Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) • Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science (CPCI-S) • Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Social Sciences & Humanities (CPCI-SSH) • Book Citation Index– Science (BKCI-S) • Book Citation Index– Social Sciences & Humanities (BKCI-SSH) • Current Chemical Reactions (CCR-Expanded) • Index Chemicus (IC)
Subscribed by the Library 27

28. Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)
A multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the social sciences.
Covers over 2,900 journals across 50 social sciences disciplines and indexes individually selected, relevant items from over 3,500 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals.
Coverage: 1992-present
Examples of Subject categories:
Anthropology
Linguistics
Psychology
Sociology
History
Philosophy
Public Health
Substance Abuse
Industrial Relations
Political Science
Social Issues
Urban Studies
Law
Psychiatry
Social Work
Women's Studies 28

29. Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI)
A multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the of the arts and humanities.
Covers over 1,600 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals and indexes individually selected, relevant items from over 6,000 major science and social science journals.
Coverage: 1975-present
Examples of Subject categories:
Art
Folklore
Literary Reviews
Poetry
Asian Studies
History
Literature
Radio, Television, & Film
Classics
Language
Music
Religion
Dance
Linguistics
Philosophy
Theater 29

30. How to access Search the Library Catalogue, or
EdUHK Library Homepage > E-Resources
Search or Browse by alphabet
W (Web of Science) 30

31. Also available under Research Support at Library Web Site
How to access
Also available under Research Support at Library Web Site 31

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33. Basic Search Search Field Search Tips Boolean Operator
Add Another Field
Year Range 33

34. Find records that contain …
Search Tips
Operator
Example
Find records that contain …
AND
theory AND practice
both terms OR
theory OR conception
either term or both terms
NOT
theory NOT hypothesis
first term but not the second
NEAR/x
theory NEAR/5 knowledge
terms within a specified number of words (x) of each other
“…”
“knowledge economy”
exact phrase *
child*
child, children, childhood ?
wom?n
woman, women $
colo$r
color, colour 34

35. Refine & Sorting Results
Sorting options
Refine search
Narrow results by 35

36. Detailed View of A Record
Check for Full Text via EdLINK or Google Scholar 36

37. Export / Email / Print Your Search Results2 3 1
e.g. directly export the marked records to RefWorks 4 37

38. Click "Cited References" to see the References Cited by this Article38

39. Cited References of this Article39

40. Click "Times Cited" for Citing References
“Times Cited” Counts in Web of Science Core Collection 40

41. Citing References (Articles that are Citing Peisner-Feinberg’s Article)41

42. Citation Hierarchy citing reference cited reference citing reference
2005
2007
2008
citing reference
cited reference
2004
cited reference
citing reference
1997
2000
2003 42

43. "Related Records" – Other Articles Using At Least One Cited References in Peisner-Feinberg’s Article43

44. Use Related Records to Identify Similar Articles
5,398 articles have at least one common citation with this Peisner-Feinberg’s 2001 article
The more references the articles share, the more related they are 44

45. C A D B Record Record Record Record
A is a “Cited Reference” of C, i.e. A is cited by C
Record A
Record D
Reference
A is a “Citing Reference” of B, i.e. B is cited by A
D is a “Related Record” of A, because B is cited by both of them
Reference
Reference
Record B 45

46. Exercise Search for topics: social and cognitive development
Refine with keywords “language” and “school”
Limit to “Article” document
How many records found?
What is the most highly cited record?
How many times this article is cited? 46

47. Category Breakdown Under Refine Results47

48. Analysis Tools Analyze Results
extract citation data from a selected field (e.g. source title, country, author), 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 48

49. Analysis Tools
Analysis tools 49

50. 1. Analyze Results Max number of items to display: top 500 results
You can rank the search results with different field options, e.g. source titles
e.g. rank the journals by number of articles on this topic 50

51. 2. Create Citation Report
Citation statistics of records found
Most highly cited article 51

52. Exercise Search for articles with topic “mobile learning”
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 2016?
Creation Citation Report
How many times these articles have been cited?
What is the average citations per year received by the top article? 52

53. Cited Reference Search
To discover how the works of an author are being cited
How many citations received?
Cited by whom?
It can also cover the variant citation data in your search 53

54. Finding Citation Counts and Create Alerts for Works Not Indexed in Web of Science
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.
If your article is not indexed in Web of Science or may be it is a book, you can still check how many times it has been cited by Web of Science journals and create an alert using the "cited reference search" function. 54

55. Cited Reference Search
E.g. I want to know how many times the following book has been cited:
Bond, M. H. (1991). Beyond the Chinese face: Insights from psychology. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press. 55

56. Click the "Cited Reference Search"
Under the search menu, select Cited Reference Search
Use only Surname and initial(s); Chinese authors should consider using different variant forms (e.g. Cheung ABL or Cheung BL or Leung CB*)
Use abbreviated journal titles only (click the “View abbreviation list” for reference). For books, suggest to leave this blank first 56

57. Select the relevant entries from the result list and then click "Finish Search"57

58. Number of times cited in Web of Science = 322
Click "Create Citation Report" for quick summary of the 322 citing articles 58

59. Most highly cited article59

60. Create Citation Alert Email alerts / RSS feeds
Sign up for your free account first 60

61. Modify the Cited Reference Search for Future Email Alerts
Based on what has been entered for the 322 citations, enter the "cited work" field with what Web of Science uses (Use "*" and "or" as necessary) 61

62. Click "Select All" and "Finish Search"62

63. Use the "Save History / Create Alert" option to set up alerts
Select search history
Use the "Save History / Create Alert" option to set up alerts
Delete unwanted search history
Enter History Name and select desired options. Make sure you have checked the Alerts option 63

64. Hands-on Practice
Try Cited Reference Search or set up a Citation Alert on anything that interest you – a piece of your work, a key paper related to your research topic, etc. 64

65. View Journal Impact Factor via SSCI
Check Journal’s Impact Factor 65

66. Online Help 66

67. Reference Materials
Online Tutorials Web of Science Search Tips: Author Search Citation Report and the H-index Citation Alerts Cited Reference Search Saving Search Histories and Creating Alerts
Quick Reference Guide of Web of Science Core Collection
Journal lists for Web of Science Databases: - Social Sciences Citation Index - Arts & Humanities Citation Index 67

68. Scopus

69. Scopus Search Interface
Search Basics
use double quotes to search as phrase
search for “Keywords” instead of “Article Title, Abstracts, Keywords” for better precision 69

70. Search Results
Add additional search terms, filter by year, author, subject, document type, etc. 70

71. We can also enter Additional Search Terms, use “Limit to” options (by year / document type) in the search form
"environmental education"
"primary school" OR "primary schools" 71

72. Check EdLINK for Full Text Availability
From the results screen: you can also change the sorting order (default order is by date)
Various Output Options like Export, Print, or Create a Bibliography
Check EdLINK for Full Text Availability 72

73. A Scopus detailed record
Like Web of Science, citing articles are offered
s / RSS Alerts can also be set up
A Scopus detailed record 73

74. A Scopus detailed record
Like Web of Science, related articles are offered (a list of all documents that share references with the document you selected)
A Scopus detailed record 74

75. CiteScore Metrics for Serials in Scopus
Search by Source Title 75

76. CiteScore calculates the average number of citations received in a calendar year by all items published in that journal in the preceding three years. 76

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