1. Citation Searching and Journal Rankings
16 Mar 2015

2. Outline Part 1: Journal Citation Reports (JCR)
Part 2: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)
Part 3: Scopus
Part 4: Q&A

3. Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

4. 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 Journal Citation Reports which is updated on annual basis.

5. Journal Citation Reports
"Journal Citation Reports® offers a systematic, objective means to critically evaluate the world's leading journals, with quantifiable, statistical information based on citation data. By compiling articles' cited references, JCR Web helps to measure research influence and impact at the journal and category levels, and shows the relationship between citing and cited journals. Available in “Science” and “Social Sciences” editions. "
JCR is part of based on citation data from the Science Citation Index Expanded and the Social Sciences Citation Index. In the past, SCI, SSCI and JCR were the only tools providing verifiable measurement tools of journal impact based on citation statistics. Therefore they have been and still are the most widely recognized journal ranking / measuring tools.

7. Finding a Journal in JCR
HKIEd has JCR
Social Sciences Edition (1998 – 2013) &
Science Edition (2008 – 2013)
Browse by Subject / Publisher / Country; or
Search by Title or ISSN; or
View all Journals

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

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
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)

12. 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

13. Impact Factor Calculation

14. No. of items published in 2011 or 2012
Working Example: Impact Factor of Early Childhood Research Quarterly (JCR SSC 2013) = 2.058
Impact Factor =
No. of Cites to 2011 or 2012 items in 2013
No. of items published in 2011 or 2012

15. Impact Factor Trend of a Journal

16. Impact Factor Trend of a Journal

17. Journal Ranking by Impact Factor by JCR Subject Category

18. 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

19. The Meaning of Category Box Plot

20. Journal Ranking by Impact Factor by JCR Subject Category
Click "View Journal Summary List" for a list of all journals in this category

21. Journal Summary List

22. Journal Ranking by Impact Factor by JCR Subject Category
Click "View Category Data " for the average values of impact factor and other indicators for all journals combined in this subject category

23. Category Summary Data

24. To Browse and Sort by Subject Categories
Subject category selection

25. To Save the Journal Data of a List of Journals
Mark All

26. To Save the Journal Data of a List of Journals
Click Marked List

27. To Save the Journal Data of a List of Journals
or display the whole list in one page
for print or paste to Excel
You can Save to a Text File
which can be imported to Excel

28. Hands-on Practice
What is the Journal Impact Factor for the journal addictive behaviors?
What subject categories does the journal addictive behaviors belong to? What are the Impact Factor of these subject categories? What are the respective subject rankings of addictive behaviors in the respective subject categories?
What is the full name of the highest ranked journal under the subject category "women's studies" in JCR 2013 Social Sciences Edition? What is its Impact Factor?

29. Additional Information
Using Journal Citation Reports Wisely
JCR Help Pages
JCR Subject Category Scope Notes

30. Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)

31. Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science)
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? ……

32. Web of Science Summary
Citation Counts in Web of Science include citations from:
Web of Science Core Collection • Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-Expanded) • Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) • Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI) • 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)
BIOSIS Citation Index
Chinese Science Citation Database
Data Citation Index
SciELO Citation Index

33. 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:
Area Studies
History
Psychiatry
Social Work
Cultural Studies
Linguistics
Psychology
Sociology
Economics
Management
Public Adm.
Urban Studies
Education & Educational Research
Political Science
Social Issues
Women’s Studies
Notes: we have an archive of Arts & Humanities Citation Index covering 1992 – Nov 2011 at a dedicated PC in the Library

34. How to access Search the Library Catalogue, or
HKIEd Library Homepage > E-Resources
Search or Browse by alphabet
S (Social Sciences Citation Index) or W (Web of Science)

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

37. Basic Search Search Tips Search Field Operator Add another field
Year Range

38. 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

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

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

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

42. Click "Cited References" to see the References Cited by this Article

43. Cited References of this Article

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

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

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

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

48. Use Related Records to Identify Similar Articles
4,946 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

49. 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

50. 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?

51. Category Breakdown Under Refine Results

52. 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

53. Analysis Tools
Analysis tools

54. 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

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

56. 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 2013?
Creation Citation Report
How many times these articles have been cited?
What is the average citations per year received by the top article?

57. 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

58. 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.

59. 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.

60. 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

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

62. Number of times cited in Web of Science = 290
Click "Create Citation Report" for quick summary of the 290 citing articles

63. Most highly cited article

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

65. Modify the Cited Reference Search for Future Email Alerts
Based on what has been entered for the 290 citations, enter the "cited work" field with what Thomson Reuters uses (Use "*" and "or" as necessary)

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

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

68. Other than alerts option, you may subscribe to the feed via your browser, e.g. the URL of this RSS feed is:

69. 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.

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

71. Online Help

72. Reference Materials Online Tutorials
e.g. Web of Science Search Tips
Author Search Citation Reporting and the H-index
Citation Alerts Cited Reference Search
Saving Search Histories and Creating Alerts
Quick Reference Guide of Web of Science Core Collection
Social Sciences Citation Index Source Publications List 2015

73. Scopus

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

75. Search Results
Add additional search terms, filter by year, subjects, etc.

76. We can also enter Additional Search Terms, use “Limit to” Options (by year / document type / subject areas) in the Search Form
"environmental education"
"primary school" OR "primary schools"

77. Check EdLINK for Full Text Availability
At the Results Screens: 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

78. A SCOPUS Detailed Record
Like SSCI, Citing Articles are Offered
s / RSS Alerts can also be Set Up
A SCOPUS Detailed Record

79. A SCOPUS Detailed Record
Like SSCI, Related Articles are Offered; In addition, you can choose which shared references to use
A SCOPUS Detailed Record

80. Analytics Tools in Scopus
Search by Source Title

81. Select “Analyze search results”

82. Various citation data will be provided in charts & table format and you may also compare it with other journals

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