library 19 september 2012 web of science econlit google scholar
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19 September 2012
Web of ScienceEconLit
Google Scholar
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Web of Knowledge(Institute for Scientific Information)
• Web of Science top tab default
• Reference guide 11 languages
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Bibliography-buildingSearching & Citations
• Topic• Author• Cited references• Breakout (eg. by year)
• Export• Times cited
• Citation report• Search history• Alerts• Mapping citations• Scientific Web
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Phrase definition & authors
• Phrase Searching
eg. “Outright Monetary Transactions” finds this exact phrase
• Parentheses
Use parentheses to group compound statements. For example:
(Eurozone OR Euro) AND (“inflation targeting”)
• Author Name
Enter the last name first, followed by a space and up to five initials.
- Artis M* finds: Artis M, Artis JM, Artis Michael &c.
- Artis finds all authors with the last name Artis
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Connecting
• Web of Science
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Institutional Data
• Times Higher Education– 2012 World University Rankings (3 October)
• Using 'Advanced Search'• OG= Organisation
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World University RankingsTimes Higher Education
• The Learning Environment (30%)• Citations / Research Influence (30%)• Research volume, income, reputation (30%)• International outlook: people, research (7.5%)• Industry Income: innovation (2.5%)
pp.28-29, Times Higher Education rankings supplement, 6 October 2011
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Some Caveats: international coverage
• The journal selection process– "Many excellent regional journals target a local,
rather than an international, audience. Therefore, the emphasis on extensive international diversity is less than for internationally focused journals."
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Caveats…• Emphasis on articles not books
– (TR developing Book Citation Index)
• ‘Main’ articles sometimes mis-classified as ‘reviews’• Language coverage – diacritic errors in citation • 'Web of Science' does not correct/change metadata• Abstracts only since 1992• Not all series are indexed – eg. NBER
• Author names – variations• Citation because of ‘controversial’ or ‘bad science’
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Google Scholar
• http://scholar.google.com/
• eg: "social inequality"
• Link → EUI full text journals
• Advanced Scholar search
• Preferences
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Scholar Citations
• Google Scholar Citations– http://scholar.google.ca/intl/en/scholar/citations.html
• Details and corrections
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Text Analysis
• Ngram Viewer– http://books.google.com/ngrams/info
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Pros. & Cons.• Google Scholar not by 'relevance' but by
metadata
• Not limited to 'published' documents
• Google keeps algorithms, metrics and definions of 'scholarly publication' secret
• Control is less rigid: a pro or a con?
• July upgrade: 'top publications' list.
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EconLit
• EconLit – e-bibliography of economics literature,
compiled by the AEA with abstracts, indexing and chapter lists of edited works.
– 1,200,000 records (1886-2012)
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RePEc• Research Papers in Economics
– RePEc database of Economics literature and references, founded in 1993
– RePEc blog
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19 September 2012
Web of ScienceEconLit
Google Scholar