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1 1 e-Resources on Social Sciences: Social Sciences Citation Index

2 Help you answer questions like:  Which 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? … Web of Science

3 Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) 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 Index Chemicus Other Databases Journal Citation Report (JCR)

4 Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)  Includes 2,697 social sciences journals across 55 disciplines  Subjects covered  Coverage: 1992 - present AnthropologyLawPsychiatrySocial Work HistoryLinguisticsPolitical ScienceSociology Industrial RelationsPhilosophyPublic HealthSubstance Abuse Information Science & Library Science PsychologySocial IssuesUrban Studies

5 Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI)  Includes 1,470 arts and humanities journals  Subjects covered  Coverage: 1992 - present ArchaeologyDanceLiterary ReviewsRadio, Television & Film ArchitectureFolkloreLiteratureReligion ArtHistoryMusicTheatre Asian StudiesLanguagePhilosophy ClassicsLinguisticsPoetry

6 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)

7 SSCI, A&HCI @ Web of Science  Citation Search  Cited Reference Search  Save & Output Search Results  Citation Analysis Tools  Citation Alert  Save and run Searches

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

9 Database Year Operator Search Field

10 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 SAMEtheory SAME knowledgeboth terms in the same sentence “…”“knowledge economy”exact phrase *child*child, children, chidlhood ?wom?nwoman, women $colo$rcolor, colour

11 Refine & Sorting Results Sorting options Refine options

12 This article is cited by 4 other articles Journal’s impact factor Records with common references Found Record Check Library Catalogue

13 Record A Record A Reference Record B Record B Record D Record D Reference B is a “Related Record” of A, because D 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 D, i.e. D is cited by A

14 Exercise 1.Search for topics “social and cognitive development” 2.Refine with keywords “language”, “school” 3.Refine for “Article” document How many records found? What is the most highly cited record? How many times this article is cited?

15 Analysis Tools  Analyze Results  extract data values from a selected field (e.g. country), and produces a report showing the values in ranked order  Create Citation Report  view aggregate citation statistics for a set of search results  Citation Map  view graphical representation that shows the citation relationships (cited references and citing articles) of an article Installation of the most current version of Java and necessary browser plug-in required

16 Save your search results 1 2 3 4

17 Export Search Results You can export the serach 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 = ISI (Institute for Scientific Information)  Database = Web of Science

18 Analysis Tools Analysis tools

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

20 2. Citation Report citation statistics of records found

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

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

23 Enter all variant forms of author name 1 2 3 4 Select records to be searched

24 Times cited Mostly cited in this journal

25 Exercise How many times the works of Prof. Cheung Bing-leung Anthony are cited? Who cited his works most? Hints: 1. Use Cited Reference Search 2. Author = Cheung ABL 3. Use Analyze Results

26 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

27 Citation Alert To receive an e-mail alert when an article on the list is cited in a new article

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

29 Online Help

30 HKIEd Library Homepage > Library Instructions > Online Tutorial http://www.lib.ied.edu.hk/is/tutorial/fp/index.htm Online Tutorial

31 31 Thank You!


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