Citation Metrics Workshop (Web of

Science) for NUS Staff

by the NUS Libraries Cited Reference Team

23rd April 2013

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Outline

1. Advantages and Disadvantages of Using Web of

Science

2. Demo: Basic Level

3. Demo: Advanced Level

4. Break

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Advantages of Using Web of Science

Authoritative

Journal backfiles to 1900

Use of Researcher’s ID to identify authors

Which Bhajan Singh

Which Jane Smith

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Unique number

Click here for citation metrics

ResearcherID

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ResearcherID

Handout on ResearcherID available online

# citations; h-index, etc.

Disadvantages of Using Web of Science

Limited coverage:

Document type: mainly journals and conference

proceedings

Range of titles: only high impact journals

Geographic: mainly American and British

Cannot generate:

H-index without self-citations

List without self-citations of Author and co-authors

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Things Web of Science Cannot Generate

# Author/s

1 Brenda Yeoh and Researcher A

2 Any of Brenda Yeoh’s other co-authors in her publication

history (e.g. Researcher A)

3 Researcher B

4 Researcher C

5 Researcher D

6 Researcher E

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Can’t generate h-index of remaining 5 works

List of publications that cite Brenda Yeoh

Can’t generate list of citing articles that excludes this

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Difference between Basic and

Advanced Levels

Level Basic Advanced

What Indexed Works: high impact

journals and conference

proceedings

Non-Indexed Works : books,

non-high impact journals, etc.

See p. 9 of handout for

Advanced Level

How Use Author Search tab Use Cited Reference Search

tab: searches reference lists

of indexed works

See p.10 of handout for

Advanced Level

Author Used in Demo and Handout

Professor Brenda Yeoh S.A. (Saw Ai)

Professor of Geography, Dean FASS

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Yeoh BSA

Yeoh SA

Yeoh B

Ai

DEMO for Basic Level

Why Click 11

Author Tan ba

120 hits

Don’t click

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Why Click

Click

9 hits only because the search is restricted to just those author initials, not all variants

DEMO CONT.

Author with Name Shared by Many

Other Researchers (p. 9-10)

Brown, J (Researcher in Botany) who publishes from

1980 onwards only in a few journals

Plant Disease

Plant Physiology

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DEMO

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Advanced Level

Level Basic Advanced

What Indexed Works: high impact

journals and conference

proceedings

Non-Indexed Works : books,

non-high impact journals, etc.

See p. 9 of handout for

Advanced Level

How Use Author Search tab Use Cited Reference Search

tab: searches reference list of

indexed works

See p.10 of handout for

Advanced Level

Advanced Level 15

We search under:

a. Her name, Yeoh b*

b. Co-author’s name when the co-author is the first author

Reason for (b):

If she is not the first author and the work is not indexed by

Web of Science, sometimes it WILL NOT be retrieved if we

search using Brenda Yeoh’s name. It will be retrieved ONLY

if we search under her co-author who is the first author

Work Not Indexed by Web of Science and Prof

Yeoh is not the 1st Author

Book Singapore: a Developmental City-State

by Martin Perry, Lily Kong and Brenda Yeoh.

New York : Wiley, 1997

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DEMO for Advanced Level

Do not close session

Why Use * after Singapore 17

If we type in Singapore we are telling Web of

Science the title of the source is just one word,

Singapore which is not what we want

Type in Singapore * to indicate the title has other

words after Singapore

Do not close session