Transcript Citation Searching Isabel Holowaty [email protected] Juliet Ralph [email protected] Aim • • • • • • What is it How does it work Features & Pitfalls Demonstrations Hands-on Questions.

Citation Searching
Isabel Holowaty
[email protected]
Juliet Ralph
[email protected]
Aim
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What is it
How does it work
Features & Pitfalls
Demonstrations
Hands-on
Questions
Citation indexing
• Invented in 1961 by Eugene Garfield at the Institute for
Scientific Information (ISI)
• Scientific abstracting/indexing services began in 19th
century, recording author/title/publisher/journal for articles
and indexing them
• Garfield added details of all references quoted in the article
and indexed them too, publishing results as Science
Citation Index (SCI) – originally only in printed form
• Allowed for many new ways of linking articles
Many new ways?
• For an article you’ve read:
• Find the earlier articles it refers to
• Find later articles which quoted it
• Find related articles which quote some of the same
references as this one
• So you can trace the progress of ideas backwards,
sideways and, uniquely, forwards in time
Why bother?
• Discover who is citing your research, or that of a colleague,
or noted authority
• Identify sources of information that competitors are
consulting for their research
• Assess the impact of an article
Originally
• Using the paper Science Citation Index was
hard work
• Now, the electronic version is much quicker
• But can be complex and confusing – important
to understand what it does and doesn’t do
• The basic concept of linking documents which
cite each other, and ranking them according to
the frequency with which they do so, underpins
search engines like Google
Want to know more?
• Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citation_index
What is the Web of Science?
• Indexes to the journal literature across all subjects
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Science Citation Index
Social Science Citation Index
Arts and Humanities Citation Index
Conference Proceedings
• Web of Science (WoS) is a product offered on the platform
Web of Knowledge (WoK), alongside other products
including Journal Citation Reports which gives journal
impact factors.
• Direct access available on Oxford network; outside Oxford
log in using Single Sign-On
Searching options
1. To find journal articles or book reviews (Search)
2. To find articles citing a particular work (Cited Reference
Search)
General search
General search
Cited Reference search
(Reverse look-up)
Cited Reference search
Features
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All content of a journal is indexed, not just articles
Find illustrations of artistic or musical works
Citation reports & analysis
Author affiliation searches
Alerts
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New articles on your subject
Citation alerts
Pitfalls
• Foreign language titles are translated!
• Cited works are heavily abbreviated, inconsistently
referenced and frequently wrong
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Check for Cited Reference Variants
• Remember to save results per page
Cited Reference links everywhere
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Scopus (science, medicine and social sciences)
Historical Abstracts
Medline, Embase, PsycInfo, BIOSIS Previews
…and other life science databases on the Ovid platform
• Each reference to a paper shows the number of times it
has been cited in that database
• Look for links such as “Cited by”, “Citing articles”
Cited references in Google Scholar
• References include ‘cited by’ data based on articles known
to Google Scholar
• Entries ranked by number of cites
• Not possible to save sets or analyse
• Still useful for tracking research
Related records
• Find similar articles based on shared references.
• Links now appear in databases such as
• Web of Science
• Databases on Ovid platform
• PubMed
• Google Scholar
Questions
• Web of Science tutorial
• www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/rsl/training/tutorials
• For further help contact your subject librarian – see
http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/collections/librarians