Transcript Who’s citing you? Citation tracking tools. Angela Carritt & Juliet Ralph [email protected] [email protected] In this session • Citation tracking - what it is and why.

Who’s citing you?
Citation tracking tools.
Angela Carritt & Juliet Ralph
[email protected]
[email protected]
In this session
• Citation tracking - what it is and why its important
• Citation tracking and finding out who’s citing you using:
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Web of Science
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Scopus
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Google Scholar.
• Creating citation alerts.
• WISER Bibliometrics and the Black Art of Citation Ranking
- more on measuring research impact and measuring
research impact for individuals, groups and journals
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Later
papers
that cite
“your”
paper
Papers that share
one or more citation
in common - related
2009 2010
2006
2008
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2007
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Earlier
papers
referred to
in “your”
paper
Why bother
• Trace the progress of research backwards, forwards and
sideways
• Identify research papers in your field / stay ahead of
competitors
• Assess the impact of your research – grants / jobs
Web of Science
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Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI)--1945-present
Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)--1956-present
Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI)--1975-present
Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Science (CPCI-S)-1990-present
• Coverage: thousands of journals, conference papers,
review papers, notes of meetings, letters, book reviews, art
exhibits, poetry…but not books
Search example
• Effectiveness of PowerPoint presentations in lectures
• Bartsch, RA & Cobern, KM
• Source: COMPUTERS & EDUCATION Volume:
41 Issue: 1 Pages: 77-86 Published: AUG 2003
• Cited references
• Times cited
General v Cited Reference
• General
• quick and easy but may be incomplete
• can also search for book review
• Cited Reference search
• Thorough – picks up variant citations
• Includes books (cited by papers on WOS)
• Includes publications that pre date the
citation indexes (cited by WOS)
Cited Reference Search
Scopus www.scopus.com
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Huge bibliographic database covering
15,000 journals & conference proceedings in
Science
Medicine
Social sciences
• “Citations” column indicates times the article was cited.
• “View references” displays the article’s bibliography.
Cited references in Google
Scholar
• References include ‘cited by’ data based on articles known
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to Google Scholar
Entries ranked by number of cites
Though not all entries actually cite the article!
Not possible to sort, save sets or analyse
Still useful for picking up citations in journals not covered
by WoS or Scopus (especially non-english language), plus
dissertations/theses, conferences, books, unpublished
items such as Powerpoint shows etc…
How did they compare?
• Web of Science
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42 citing articles; 19 unique to WoS
• Scopus
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45 citing articles; 10 unique to Scopus
• Google Scholar
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117 citations; 79 unique
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Beware of phantom citations
• 19 references in common across the 3 databases.
Other databases
• Citing articles are becoming a feature in many databases
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Historical Abstracts
Medline, Embase, PsycInfo, BIOSIS Previews
…and other life science databases on the Ovid platform
JSTOR
Full-text databases such as ScienceDirect,
WileyInterScience
• Number of times it has been cited in that database.
• Look for links such as “Cited by”, “Citing articles”
Set up Citation Alerts
Here to help
• Your Subject Librarian
• www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/libraries/subjects/librarian
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• Radcliffe Science Library
• www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/science
• [email protected]
Over to you
• Try an online tutorial from the list at
www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/science/training/tutorials
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Web of Science
• Or do your own search on Web of Science or Scopus
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Start at SOLO http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk or OxLIP+
http://oxlip-plus.bodleian.ox.ac.uk and search for
database name