UNDERSTANDING ISI,SCOPUS,GOOGLE AND Q, FOR JOURNAL‘S INDEXES/ABSTRACTS

MUSTAFA MAT DERIS

ATFACULTY OF TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION

OCTOBER 08, 20142.15 pm– 4.30 pm

1. Introduction

2. ISI, Scopus, Google, and Q

2.1. Indexes

2.2. Journal Selection Criteria

2.3 Premier Indexes

3. Examples

4. Q & A

CONTENTSCONTENTS

Introduction• Top Ranking Universities Criteria

– THES Criteria– QS Criteria

• Journal Ranking Criteria

THES Top Ranking University: Methodology, 2012

• Research: volume, income and reputation (30 %)

• Citations: research influence (30 %)

• Teaching: the learning environment (30 %)

• International outlook: people and research (7.5%)

• Industry income: innovation (2.5 %).

Research: volume, income and reputation (30%)

We count the number of papers published in the academic journals indexed by Thomson Reuters per academic staff member to give a clear picture of each institution's ability to get papers published in quality peer-reviewed journals.

This category also looks at university research income, scaled against staff numbers

Citations: research influence (30 %)

In this indicator, we examine a university's research influence by capturing the number of times its published work is cited by scholars around the world.

ACADEMIC REPUTATION 40% 30% 30%

EMPLOYER REPUTATION 10% 10% 20%FACULTY STUDENT 20% 20% 10%

CITATIONS PER FACULTY 20% - -

CITATIONS PER PAPER - 15% 10%

PAPERS PER FACULTY - 15% 10%

INTERNATIONAL FACULTY 5% 2.5% -

INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS 5% 2.5% -INBOUND EXCHANGE

STUDENTS - 2.5% -

OUTBOUND EXCHANGE STUDENTS - 2.5%

QS CRITERIAASIA LATINQS WUR

MIT100% 1

NUS 91.1% 22

ANU 89.7% 25

UNI. OF HONG KONG

88.8% 28

UNI. OF TOKYO 86.7% 31

UM 61.0% 151

UKM 45.4% 259

UTM 41.9% 294

USM 41.0% 309

UPM 36.4% 376

QS WUR

Institution Score Rank

The rankings are, for the third year, led by MIT which increased year-on-year citations per faculty by 14%. Imperial College also reported a 14% increase in this metric compared to 11% by Cambridge and 2% by Harvard. The average increase in this dimension amongst the top 10 was 7%. Caltech remains the world’s top university for research citations.

All the top ten institutions achieve excellence in academic reputation, employer reputation, student faculty ratio or measures of international faculty and students. The performance of Imperial College in citations per faculty has helped it become the biggest climber in the top 10, leapfrogging Harvard, UCL and Oxford to rank second equal in the world, tied with University of Cambridge.

A total of 31 countries are represented in the top 200; where the US is the dominant nation, with 51 institutions, ahead of the UK (29), Germany (13), the Netherlands (11), Canada (10), Japan (10) and Australia (8).

QS WUR 2014

• In academic publishing, a scientific journal is a periodical publication intended to further the progress of science, usually by reporting new research.

• There are thousands of academic and scientific journals in publication (> 23,000), and many more have been published at various points in the past.

Journal Ranking

Journal Ranking• Journal ranking is widely used in academic circles in the evaluation of an academic journal’s impact and quality. Journal rankings are intended to reflect the place of a journal within its field, the relative difficulty of being published in that journal, and the prestige associated with it.

• They have been recently introduced as official research evaluation tools in some countries such as Norway, Australia and France.

• Usually, it is based on indexes/abstracts given by ISI, SCOPUS, DBLP, Google, etc.

What is ISI

ISI is the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) was founded by Eugene Garfield in 1960.

ISI Serves

• ISI offered bibliographic database services and its specialty is on citation indexing and analysis.

• Covering thousands of academic journals, including a continuation of its longtime print-based indexing service the,

Science Citation Index (SCI), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), and Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI).

All of these are available via ISI's Web of Knowledge (part of web of Science) database service.

Other Abstracting and indexing

The ISI Web of Knowledge suite encompasses the following databases:

Biological AbstractsBiosis Citation IndexCurrent Chemical ReactionsCurrent Contents ConnectIndex ChemicusBIOSIS Citation IndexScience Citation Index Expandedhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISI_Web_of_Knowledge#Abstracting_and_indexing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_of_Knowledge

• Arts & Humanities Citation Index®      (Web of Science)• Biological Abstracts• BIOSIS PREVIEWS• Biological Abstracts/RRM• Current Contents® / Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Scien

ces• Current Contents® / Arts & Humanities• Current Contents® / Clinical Medicine• Current Contents® / Engineering, Computing & Technology• Current Contents® / Life Sciences• Current Contents® / Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences• Current Contents® / Social & Behavioral Sciences• Current Contents Collections / Business Collection• Current Contents Collections / Electronics &

Telecommunications Collection• Science Citation Index®• Science Citation Index Expanded™    (Web of Science)• Social Sciences Citation Index®    (Web of Science)• Zoological Record

ISI JOURNAL LISTS FOR SEARCHABLE DATABASES

CHEMICAL INFORMATION PRODUCTS

• ChemPrep™• ISI Chemistry Reaction CenterSM      • Current Chemical Reactions®• Current Chemical Reactions® Database• Index Chemicus®• Reaction Citation Index™

ISI JOURNAL LISTS FOR SEARCHABLE DATABASES

Top Three Indexes

• Science Citation Index Expanded (Larger version of SCI) covers more than 8,400 notable and significant journals

• Arts and Humanities Citation Index, which covers more than 1200 journals, beginning with 1975.

• Social Sciences Citation Index, which covers more than 3000 journals, beginning with 1956.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_Citation_Index

Updated 7/10/2014

(Information Science Institute, ISI).

The evaluation process consists of evaluation of many criteria such as, - Basic Journal Publishing Standards (including Timeliness of publication, adherence to International Editorial Conventions,

- English Language Bibliographic Information (including English article titles, keywords, author abstracts, and cited references.)

- ISI also examines the journal's Editorial Content, the International Diversity of it authors and editors. Citation Analysis using ISI data is applied to determine the journal's citation history and/or

- the citation history of its authors and editors.

Journal Selection Criteria

Known citation in descending order(Engineering, Science & Technology)

• Science Citation Index (SCI, SCI Expanded)• Current Contents (Engineering, Computing, Technology)• CompuMaths Citation Index•… (some ISI indexes)• Scopus• DBLP Bibliography, CompuSci• Cambridge Scientific Abstracts• Computer Abstracts UK,• Mathematics Review USA• Mathematics Abstracts Germany, Zentalbrat Maths• INSPEC

(Social Science)• Social Science Citation Index (SSCI)(Arts and Humanities)• Arts and Humanities Citation Index(AHCI)

Abstract/index Ordering Abstract/index Ordering

Example

http://ip-science.thomsonreuters.com/mjl/

http://science.thomsonreuters.com/cgi-bin/jrnlst/jloptions.cgi?PC=SS

Journal Indexed by ISI-Thomsonhttp://scientific.thomsonreuters.com/cgi-bin/jrnlst/jlsearch.cgi?

PC=MASTER&Error=1

1874-785X

EXAMPLE

EXAMPLE

Cont…..

The ISI also publishes the annual Journal Citation Reports which list an impact factor for each of the journals that it tracks.

The ISI also publishes a list of highly cited researchers, one of the factors included in the Academic Ranking of World Universities

Impact FactorDefinition The JCR provides quantitative tools for ranking, evaluating,

categorizing, and comparing journals. The impact factor is one of these; it is a measure of the frequency with which the "average article" in a journal has been cited in a particular year or period. The annual JCR impact factor is a ratio between citations and recent citable items published. Thus, the impact factor of a journal is calculated by dividing the number of current year citations to the source items published in that journal during the previous two years.

Calculation for journal impact factor. A= total cites in 1992

B= 1992 cites to articles published in 1990-91 (this is a subset of A)C= number of articles published in 1990-91D= B/C = 1992 impact factor

Abstracting/ IndexingSocial Science Citation Index, Journal Citation Reports/Social Sciences Edition, SCOPUS, Google Scholar, EBSCO, Academic OneFile, Current Contents / Social & Behavioral Sciences, Expanded Academic, OCLC, SCImago, Summon by ProQuest, VOCED

IF 1.286ISSN: 1874-785X

Abstracting and IndexingAustralian Educational IndexBritish Education IndexContents Pages in EducationCurrent ContentsEducation Research IndexBibliography of Asian StudiesDatabase of Research on International EducationERICEducation Technology AbstractsGEOBASEResearch into Higher Education AbstractsSocial Sciences Citation IndexSpecial Education Needs AbstractsEducational Management AbstractsMulticultural Education AbstractsSociology of Education AbstractsTechnical Education & Training AbstractsERA (Educational Research Abstracts Online)Scopus

IF 0.841ISSN: 0738-0593

IF : 0.966ISSN: 0251-2513 (print version)

Science Citation Index Expanded (SciSearch), Social Science Citation Index, SCOPUS, PsycINFO, Google Scholar, EBSCO, Academic OneFile, CSA Environmental Sciences, Current Contents / Social & Behavioral Sciences, Current Contents/Clinical Medicine, Educational Research Abstracts Online (ERA), Educational Technology Abstracts, ERIC System Database, ERIH, Gale, OCLC, SCImago, Special Education Needs Abstracts, Studies on Women & Gender Abstracts, Summon by ProQuest, Vocational Education and Training Abstracts, VOCED

Science Citation Index Expanded (SciSearch), SCOPUS, INSPEC, Google Scholar, EBSCO, CSA, Academic OneFile, Academic Search, British Education Index, CSA Environmental Sciences, Educational Research Abstracts Online (ERA), Educational Technology Abstracts, EI-Compendex, ERIC System Database, ERIH, Gale, OCLC, SCImago, Sociology of Education Abstracts, Special Education Needs Abstracts, Studies on Women & Gender Abstracts, Summon by ProQuest, Vocational Education and Training Abstracts

IF = 0.733, JCR 2013ISSN: 0957-7572 (print version)

Abstracting/ Indexing

Abstracting and IndexingMathSciINSPECPASCAL/INIST-CNRSSCISEARCHScience Citation IndexSocial SciSearchUnCoverZentralblatt MATHInside ConferencesGale Group Trade & Industry DatabaseScopus

IF 0.713ISSN: 0378-3758

ISI PROCEEDINGS

ISI Proceedings is an index to the published literature of the most significant conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions in a wide range of disciplines from anthropology to zoology. It enables you to track emerging ideas and new research in specific fields before the material appears in journal literature.