1. WISER: Bibliometrics I Who’s citing you? Angela Carritt & Juliet Ralph angela.carritt@bodleian.ox.ac.uk juliet.ralph@bodleian.ox.ac.uk November 2011

2. In this session Citation tracking - what it is and why its important Finding out who’s citing you using: Web of Science Scopus Google Scholar. Creating citation alerts Next session WISER Bibliometrics II: The Black Art of Citation Ranking - more on measuring research impact

3. 2008 1870 1980 2009 2010 2008 2006 2010 } Papers that share one or more citation in common - related Later papers that cite “your” paper { } Earlier papers referred to in “your” paper 2007

4. Why bother Trace the progress of research backwards, forwards and sideways Identify research papers in your field / stay ahead of competitors Assess the impact of your research – grants / jobs

5. Web of Science 12,000 referred, high impact journals and conference proceedings 30,000 books from Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI)--1945-present Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)--1956-present Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI)--1975-present Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Science (CPCI-S)- -1990-present Book Citation Index (scholarly titles covering original research) 2005-

6. Search example Bartsch, R.A. & Cobern, K.M. 2003, "Effectiveness of PowerPoint presentations in lectures", Computers & Education, vol. 41, no. 1, pp. 77. Effectiveness of PowerPoint presentations in lectures Bartsch, RA & Cobern, KM Source: COMPUTERS & EDUCATION Volume: 41 Issue: 1 Pages: 77-86 Published: AUG 2003 Cited references Times cited

7. WOS: Search

8. WOS: Results More information including citation history Times cited

9. WOS: tracking citations Papers sharing at least one citation in common with this article Papers cited in this paper (e.g. bibliography) Papers which cite this paper Set up an alert for new papers citing this article

10. WOS: Citing articles Where did WOS find the citations? Analyze / Create Citation Report

11. WOS “Analyze results” Analyse by author, institution, source (journal), grant number etc

12. WOS: Citation Report Citation data for articles citing Bartsch

13. General v Cited Reference General quick and easy but may be incomplete can also search for book reviews Cited Reference search Thorough – picks up variant citations. Only tool to do this. Includes publications which are not on WOS but which are cited by items that are on WOS (e.g. pre 1945, books)

14. WOS cited reference search Look up correct abbreviation – must be exactly right

15. WOS Cited reference search Picks up variant citations

16. What about journals not in WoS? Master List of ISI journals - 12,000 journals which form the basis of Web of Science and Journal Citation Reports (JCR). http://science.thomsonreuters.com/mjl/

17. Scopus Huge bibliographic database: 18,000 scholarly journals & conference proceedings in Science, Medicine, Social Sciences & Humanities. Some overlap with Web of Science. Sources tab lists journals included. www.scopus.com View references displays the article’s bibliography. Citations column indicates times the article was cited by other articles in Scopus since 1996.

18. Times cited in Scopus

19. NB ‘since 1996’

20. Analysing citing articles 1. Tick box next to article title. 2. Click View Citations.

21. 3. Tick All box, to select all the citing articles. 4. Click on View Citation Overview.

22. Citation Overview Citation data for articles citing Bartsch.

23. Cited references in Google Scholar ‘Cited by’ data based on articles etc known to Google Scholar. Entries ranked by number of cites. Picks up citations in journals not covered by WoS or Scopus (especially non-English language), also conferences, books, dissertations/theses, PLUS unpublished items such as Powerpoint slides, blogs, webpages etc… Not possible to sort, save sets or analyse.

24. Items citing Bartsch

25. Retrieve citations from wider variety of publication types Thesis Blog

26. Non-English journals But beware of false hits 

27. How did they compare? In October 2010: Web of Science 42 citing articles; 19 unique to WoS Scopus 45 citing articles; 10 unique to Scopus Google Scholar 117 citations; 79 unique But beware of phantom citations 19 references in common across the 3 databases.

28. Other databases Citing articles are a feature in many databases: Medline, Embase, PsycInfo, BIOSIS Previews …and other databases on the Ovid site Full-text databases such as ScienceDirect, Wiley Online Library, JSTOR Number of times it has been cited in that database. Look for links such as “Cited by”, “Citing articles”

29. Citation Alerts in WoS Create Citation Alert Next time it’s cited get an email (or set up RSS feed)

30. Citation Alerts in Scopus Also has choice of Email alerts RSS feeds

31. Quality or quantity? Meho, L. I.; Yang, K. (2007). "Impact of Data Sources on Citation Counts and Rankings of LIS Faculty: Web of Science vs. Scopus and Google Scholar". Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 58 (13): 2105–2125.Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology doi:10.1002/asi.20677doi10.1002/asi.20677

32. Meho & Yang conclude: WoS remains an indispensable citation database. WoS and Scopus complement not replace each other. Scopus and Google Scholar identify many citations not found in WoS. GS unique citations not of same quality or weight, but could be useful in showing broader international impact.

33. WoS/Scopus/G Scholar compared http://www2.hawaii.edu/~jacso/

34. Bibliometrics If you want to count or analyse your citations or ‘impact’, the best tools to use are Web of Science Scopus

35. Here to help Your Subject Librarian www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/libraries/ subjects/librarianswww.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/libraries/ subjects/librarians Radcliffe Science Library www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/science enquiries.rsl@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

36. Over to you Search for citations to your own work! Start at SOLO http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk or OxLIP+ http://oxlip-plus.bodleian.ox.ac.uk and open Web of Science or Scopus.http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.ukhttp://oxlip-plus.bodleian.ox.ac.uk OR Try Web of Science tutorial – in the list at www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/science/training/tutorials www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/science/training/tutorials