Measuring research impact citation metrics handout

Measuring Research Impact: Introduction to Citation Metrics 2013Sheryl Adam | Dean Giustini | UBC reference librarians | February 19th, 2013 | K216: 11am-noon

AGENDAI. Introductions ~ our names ~ your names

II. Overview of issues | toolsIII. Practice time for Google scholar | Web of ScienceIV. Discussion

Resources, powerpoints & links from this presentation can be found near the top of this wiki: http://hlwiki.ca

Databases & Tools (see also page 2)• ImpactStory Tell the full story of your research impact is an experimental tool that is co-

authored by a UBC postdoctorate researcher Heather Piwowar that combines internet metrics with traditional scholarly metrics

• Thomson Reuter's Web of Science (WoS) provides access to articles that cite other articles; impact factors; separate sections for social sciences, arts and humanities, and science. 23 million source papers. Companion tool is InCites (new to UBC Library)

• Google scholar citations - keep track of your citations; check who is citing your publications, graph citations over time, and compute several citation metrics

• Wikipedia Cite-o-Meter, Top 100 publishers by citations in Wikipedia # of times journal articles from particular publishers are cited in 100 largest Wikipedias

Articles to read later• Abbott A. Do metrics really matter? Nature. 2010;465:860-862.• Bergstrom C. Eigenfactor: measuring the value and prestige of scholarly journals. College &

Research Library News. 2007.• Bollen J, Van de Sempel H, Hagberg E. A principal component analysis of 39 scientific impact

measures. PLoS ONE. 2009;4(6):e6022.• Bornmann L. Citation impact of papers published from six prolific countries: a national

comparison based on InCites data. arXiv. 3 May 2012. • Harzing Anne-Wil. The publish or perish book: your guide to effective and responsible citation

analysis. Tarma Software Research Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Australia, 2010.

• Kousha K, Thelwall M. Google book search: citation analysis for social science & the humanities. JASIST. 2009;60(8):1537-1549. doi: 10.1002/asi.21085

• Li X, Thelwall M, Giustini D. Validating online reference managers for scholarly impact measurement. Scientometrics. 2011;91(2):461-471.

• Vanclay JK. Impact factor: outdated artefact or stepping-stone to journal certification? Scientometrics. 2012;92(2):211-238.

http://hlwiki.ca/

http://toolserver.org/~dartar/cite-o-meter/?lang=vi

http://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/citations.html

http://scientific.thomson.com/products/wos/

http://impactstory.org/

Citation metrics – Where can I find them?

Databases Subject(s) Tips for searching UBC Access Link

ABI/Inform Global

International business information; US-mostly

No citing references but bibliographies are searchable

http://resources.library.ubc.ca/4

Academic Search Complete

Journals in 99% of disciplines

Use "Cited References" feature, top blue tab (main search page)


Business Source Complete

Thousands of business journals from 1965 to present

Use "Cited References" feature, top blue tab (main search page)


Elsevier ScienceDirect

Journals published by Elsevier

Select “SummaryPlus” or “Full Text + Links” & then “Cited By”


Google Scholar & Google Books

Books, journals, proceedings, more in most disciplines; coverage unclear

Narrow by discipline and/or date in advanced search

http://scholar.google.com

Historical Abstracts

Books, essays, journal articles on European & World history (1955-)

Use "Cited References", top blue tab (main page)


IEEE Xplore Digital Library

Journals, proceedings, books, standards, engineering, compsci

"Cited by" feature is in brief display


JSTOR

Full text from most disciplines; esp. social sciences & humanities 1800 -

Full display, see Items citing this item; results from GS


MathSciNet Mathematical sciences See full display for http://resources.library.ubc.ca/90





http://scholar.google.com/





literature citations, listed upper right

PubMed Central Open access biomedical research

Click citation check box & “Cited in PMC” from display pull-down menu

http://pubmedcentral.gov

PsycINFO Books, book chapters, journals & more

Use "Find Cited Articles", and then Cited by


Sociological Abstracts

Books, book chapters, journals & more

“Cited By” buttons are available in full records


Web of Science

& InCites

Science (1900-present) | Social Sciences (1956-present) | Arts & Humanities (1975-present)

Times Cited; use "Cited Reference Search" tab for most complete search


Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

International journal literature in political science & related fields

“Cited By” buttons in full records; see documents with shared references






http://pubmedcentral.gov/

EVALUATION OF THIS SESSION – ADAM/GIUSTINI

I. How useful was this session?

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II. On a scale of 1 to 5, how important are future library sessions on the following:Google scholar searchingVery important Important Neutral Not Important Don’t knowWeb of Science (author impact-journal impact)Very important Important Neutral Not Important Don’t knowInCites (institutional impact)Very important Important Neutral Not Important Don’t knowComments: _________________________________________________________

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