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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?

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Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI)

Science Citation Index Expanded Conference Proceedings Citation Index

Journal Citation Report (JCR)

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Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)

 Essential data from over 4,500 leading social sciences journals across 50 disciplines  Coverage: 1992-present  Subject disciplines: Anthropology History Industrial Relations Information Science & Library Science Law Linguistics Philosophy Psychology Psychiatry Political Science Public Health Social Issues Social Work Sociology Substance Abuse Urban Studies

Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI)

 Indexes over 2,300 arts and humanities journals  Coverage: 1992-present  Subject disciplines: Archaeology Architecture Art Asian Studies Classics Dance Folklore History Language Linguistics Literary Reviews Radio, Television & Film Literature Religion Music Philosophy Theatre Poetry

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)

SSCI, A&HCI @ Web of Science

      Citation Search Cited Reference Search Save & Output Search Results Citation Analysis Tools Citation Alert Save and run the search periodically

Citation Hierarchy

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2004 2005 2007 cited reference

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1997 2000 2003 cited reference

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both terms either term or both terms first term but not the second terms within a specified number of words (x) of each other exact phrase child, children, chidlhood woman, women color, colour

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Refine & Sorting Results

Sorting options

Record C

A is a “Cited Reference” of C, i.e. A is cited by C

Record A

A is a “Citing Reference” of B, i.e. B is cited by A

Record D

D is a “Related Record” of A, because B is cited by both of them Reference Reference

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Reference Reference

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Found Record

Records with common references Check Journal’s Impact Factor

Exercise

1. Search for topics “social and cognitive development” 2. Refine with keywords “language”, “school” 3. Limit to “Article” document How many records found?

What is the most highly cited record?

How many times this article is cited?

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Save your search results

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Export Search Results

You can export the search 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 = Hong Kong Institute of Education Database = Web of Science

Analysis Tools

Analyze Results  extract citation data from a selected field (e.g. source title, country), 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

Analysis Tools

Analysis tools

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

2. Citation Report

Citation statistics of records found

Most highly cited Article

Exercise

Search for articles with topic “facebook” 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 2011?

Creation Citation Report   How many times these articles have been cited?

What is the average citations per year received by the top article?

Cited Reference Search

• • To discover how the works of an author are being cited How many citations received?

Cited by whom?

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

Who have cited his works?

1 Enter all variant forms of author name 2 3 Select records to search 4

Times cited Most highly cited by

Exercise

• How many times the works of Prof. Cheung Bing-leung Anthony are cited?

• What is the year his articles are mostly cited?

Hints: 1. Use Cited Reference Search 2. Author = Cheung ABL 3. Use Analyze Results

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

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Citation Alert

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

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Citation Alert

View and change the setting of current alerts in My Citation Alerts

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Saved Searches

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

Online Help

Reference Materials

 Quick Reference Card http://thomsonreuters.com/content/science/pdf/ssr/training/wok5_wos_qrc_en.pdf

 Social Sciences Citation Index Source Publications List http://science.thomsonreuters.com/mjl/publist_ssci.pdf

 Online Tutorials http://thomsonreuters.com/products_services/science/training/wos/#tab3 e.g. New Features Update Web of Science Search Tips Cited Reference Searching Citation Report and H-index Saving Search Histories and Creating Alerts

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