Author search in web of science is a guide to finding articles written by a specific author. The citation report provides aggregate citation statistics for a set of search results. Its major subject areas include sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. This data can then be used to calculate all sorts of bibliographic metrics including a h index. Web of science master journal list wos mjl by clarivate. References from the year 1900, citations from 1997. Web of science citation reports impact metrics and. We would like to show you a description here but the site wont allow us. Web of science is the worlds most trusted publisherindependent global citation database. Web of science is a great database to use for public health research or other topics that may be of interest to various disciplines. Evaluate an author, an institution, a set or a single record according to citation performance.
Author records are groups of publications that are likely by one person. Different citation patterns will mean, for example, an average medical researcher will generally have much larger hindex value than a worldclass mathematician. You can create a citation report for any author in this database that will include. The citation report only analyzes the correct citations to an authors articles covered by journals the web of science.
Hirsch as a method for quantifying the relative impact of an author by counting the number of citations to his or her publications. With citation indexes besides searching for articles on a topic or author s you can also find the articles that cite a persons work, i. Web of science citation reports shows how that web of science feature can be used to get information about how an author is being cited, including the authors h index. Criteria for selection of newly submitted titles and reevaluation of existing titles in the web of science are determined by the web. It was originally produced by the institute for scientific information isi and is currently maintained by clarivate analytics previously the intellectual property and science. Citation databases evaluating scholarly publications. Journal citation reports or jcr is a product of isi web of knowledge and is an authoratative resource for impact factor data. Performing an author search using this name in web of science results citations from many disciplines ranging from renaissance studies, marine biology, chemistry and others. The hindex was designed for evaluating authors, but it can also be used as a. Journal citation reports jcr measuring your research. Once the results are retrieved for the author, click create citation report in the upper right corner. Navigate backward in time using cited references to uncover the research that influenced an authors work.
Web of science knowledge wok is a powerful web interface providing access to the citation databases. An author has an index of h if there are at most h papers that have been cited at least h times. Learn how to calculate your hindex using web of science. Science citation index expanded, social sciences citation index, arts and humanities citation index, and proceedings wosp. Author search web of science core collection libguides. Curated by an expert team of inhouse editors, web of science core collection is a trusted, highquality, definitive resource for journals, books and conference proceedings. Items that do not appear on the results page will not be factored into the calculation. The hindex may be less useful in some disciplines, particularly some areas of the humanities. On the citation report page, displayed are a graph for the number of articles or items published by the author left, a graph listing the number of times the author has been cited by year center, and finally the hindex right.
Web of science user interface for searching, journal citation reports index evaluating the impact factor of journals and essential science indicators e. The heart of the platform is the web of science core collection, which indexes over 20,000 scholarly journals. The hindex can be calculated automatically in web of science and scopus or manually in other databases that provide citation information e. The algorithm uses over 40 data features, including name matching, affiliation, citation behavior and coauthorship patterns, combined with web of science researcherid and orcid.
This is the traditional, highly respected citation research source that uses the web of science database from thomson reuters and part of the web of knowledge to search the citation references of scholarly articles in over 10,000 of the highest impact, wellregarded journals worldwide, including open access journals and over 110,000 conference proceedings. Finding your hindex hirsch index in web of science. Enter the name of the author in the top search box e. The views and opinions expressed in any journal are those of the author s and do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of clarivate analytics. Web of science help guide health sciences libraries. Web of science citation tools measuring your research. The following metrics are only available through the web of science interface author search. To find your h index, use web of science and perform an author search, then generate a citation report. Web of science core collection is a painstakingly selected, actively curated database of the journals that researchers themselves have judged to be the most important and useful in their fields. Confused with the citation information of isi web of knowledge. The web of science can be used to demonstrate the impact of particular articles and authors through the cited reference search and also allows. Web of science formerly isi citation indexes citation. Ssci social sciences citation index via the web of. Beneath the graphs, the user may click checkboxes to remove any items.
The web of science collection is particularly good for citation searching, that is, to discover how many times a particular author or article has been cited and by whom, and to locate later works which cite a specific article, allowing one to trace the development of a particular research path. Web of science citation reports shows how that web of science feature can be used to get information about how an author is being cited, including the authors hindex. Web of science is an online index that covers journal articles published in the physical and life sciences, health sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. The conference proceedings citation index, a web of science core collection database, lets you use cited reference searching to see the full impact of conferences and other professional meetings. Scientificandacademicresearchsarticlewebofsciencehindexinformation. Provides access to the social sciences citation index 1956. Please provide the email address that you used when you signed up for your clarivate analytics product or service we will send you an email. The high energy physicists and astrophysicists with hyperauthored papers are excluded. It indexes over 12,000 journals in the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Guided by the legacy of dr eugene garfield, inventor of the worlds first citation index, web of science is the most powerful research engine, delivering your library with bestinclass publication and citation data for confident discovery, access and assessment.
Author search web of science core collection libguides at. If you are uva school of medicine faculty, contact the health sciences library. Ability to create citation report which has a breakdown of times cited by year, h index, average citation per year, and sum of nonself citations for the author. Web of science provides citation counts for articles indexed within it. Results analysis shows how that feature can be used to sort an authors output by various categories. Web of science carefully selects and methodically indexes the worlds most influential scholarly literature across all disciplines. For a thorough analysis of the impact of an author or a publication, one. Ssci social sciences citation index via the web of science databases. Finding your hindex hirsch index in web of science ncar library. They are created with a combination of artificial intelligence and human curated data. An hindex of 25 means the researcher has 25 papers, each of which has been. Web of science previously known as web of knowledge is a website which provides subscriptionbased access to multiple databases that provide comprehensive citation data for many different academic disciplines.
Overview of hindex, eigenfactor, impact factor if, journal citation. The institutional and organizational design of citation indexes for authors and impact factors of journals is associated with the creation in 1960 of the institute for. Web of science indexes leading scholarly journals, books, proceedings, and other formats. Learn how to calculate your hindex using web of science paperpile. Web of science isi citation databases institute for scientific information citation databases isi web of knowledge isi citation indexes web of knowledge publication.
Conference proceedings depict the leading edge of research revealing emerging trends and new ideas before they appear in journals. Conference proceedings citation index web of science. The h index factor is based on the depth of the web of science subscription and the selected timespan. Unfortunately, web of science is not free, but your institution might have a subscription to it. For further assistance in this process, please ask a librarian or call 3034978559. The requested page is not currently available due to visibility settings. Web of science is a database that has compiled millions of articles and citations.
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