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Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science)

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Journal Citation Report

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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 Law Psychiatry Social Work

History Linguistics Political Science Sociology

Industrial Relations Philosophy Public Health Substance Abuse

Information Science& Library Science

Psychology Social Issues Urban Studies

Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI)

Indexes over 2,300 arts and humanities journals

Coverage: 1992-present

Subject disciplines:

Archaeology Dance Literary Reviews Radio, Television & Film

Architecture Folklore Literature Religion

Art History Music Theatre

Asian Studies Language Philosophy

Classics Linguistics Poetry

How to access1. Search the Library Catalogue, or2. 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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Search Tips

Operator Example Find records that contain …

AND theory AND practice both terms

OR theory OR conception either term or both terms

NOT theory NOT hypothesis first term but not the second

NEAR/x theory NEAR/5 knowledge terms within a specified number of words (x) of each other

“…” “knowledge economy” exact phrase

* child* child, children, chidlhood

? wom?n woman, women

$ colo$r color, colour

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D is a “Related Record” of A,

because B is cited by both of them

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CA is a “Cited Reference” of C,

i.e. A is cited by C

A is a “Citing Reference” of B,

i.e. B is cited by A

Records with common references

Found Record

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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?

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

You can rank the search results with different field options

e.g. Rank the journals by number of articles on this topic

1. Analyze Results

Citation statistics of records found

2. Citation Report

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 SearchTo 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

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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 Search2. Author = Cheung ABL3. Use Analyze Results

Sign InAs 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

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

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

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

Online Help

Reference Materials Quick Reference Cardhttp://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 Tutorialshttp://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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