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1 Who is Citing Your Work? Thursday Topic Series Office of Faculty Affairs 12 November 2009 BERNARD BECKER MEDICAL LIBRARY Washington University School of Medicine

2 Knowing How Your Research Was Used: How Can it Help? Quantify and document research impact Justify future requests for funding Quantify return on research investment Discover how research findings are being used Identify similar research projects Identify possible collaborators Determine if research findings are duplicated, confirmed, corrected, improved or repudiated Determine if research findings were extended (different human populations, different animal models/species, etc.) Confirm that research findings were properly attributed/credited Discover community benefit as a result of research findings Tenure Promotion dossiers

3 Resources Google Scholar SCOPUS Web of Science

4 Google Scholar Freely available from any computer network Retrieves results from a variety of cross-disciplinary sources such peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and gray literature Results do not include regular Google materials (websites, ads, etc.) Search by author or by specific publication Links to some journals subscribed by Becker Medical Library and Danforth Campus Libraries

5 Google Scholar Author Tools Search by author name allows for discovery of publications by the author and number of times cited in Google Scholar Search by title of publication allows for discovery of a specific publication and number of times cited in Google Scholar Results: ranked by how often a publication has been cited view related articles, different versions of the same publication and a web search links to key authors related to the author or publication search

6 Google Scholar Author Search Search by Author Example Query: author: Mae O Gordon

7 Google Scholar Publication Search Search by Publication Example Query: Baseline visual field characteristics in the Ocular Hypertension Treatment study

8 Google Scholar Caveats Common names problematic No reconciliation of author names Duplications of the same work Different versions of the same work Self-publications are included Not a controlled database Need to review each result

9 SCOPUS Over 38 million records dating from 1823 with complete records from 1996 to current Indexes from over 18,000 journals including all journals indexed by Medline, patent records, and other materials Content includes medicine, science, and social sciences Citation tracker tool Free registration to create search alerts, document citation alerts and saved searches Proxy, CITRIX or VPN compliant Links to journals subscribed by Becker Medical Library Alerts via or RSS feeds

10 SCOPUS Author Tools Comprehensive Author Page for authors List of articles, web resources and patents that cite a specific publication or an author since 1996 Articles include those indexed by SCOPUS Web resources include University repositories and theses/dissertations. Patents include US and European Patent Offices and the World Intellectual Property Organization h index graph for authors for publications since 1996 Citation Overview Reports Alerts via or RSS feeds

11 SCOPUS Registration Register for a free SCOPUS account

12 SCOPUS Author Search Search by Author Example: Mae O. Gordon

13 SCOPUS Author Page

14 SCOPUS Citation Overview Report

15 SCOPUS Viewing of Cited-Bys

16 SCOPUS h index Tool h index (applicable to articles published 1996 to current) "A scientist has index h if h of his Np papers have at least h citations each, and the other (Np h) papers have at most h citations each. J.E. Hirsch Charts: H-graph measures the author s output and the number of citations per publication Articles Published shows history of number of publications published per year Total Citations shows total number of citations received per year

17 SCOPUS Cited-By Alerts: Author Create author alerts through the Author Page

18 SCOPUS Cited-By Alerts: Publication Create publication alerts through the Abstract display page of a specific publication

19 SCOPUS Cited Bys: Patents and Web Sources View citing patents and web sources through the Abstract display page of a specific publication

20 Web of Science Coverage dates from 1900 with complete records from 1980 to current Indexes from approximately 10,000 journals Content includes medicine, science, social sciences and arts & humanities Free registration to create search alerts, document citation alerts and saved searches Proxy, CITRIX or VPN compliant Links to journals subscribed by Becker Medical Library Alerts via or RSS feeds

21 Web of Science Author Tools Citation Report Citation Map showing first and second generation citation history h index graph for authors for publications since 1980 Analytic Report Author Document type Institution displays collaborating institutions Alerts via

22 Web of Science Registration Register for a free WoS account

23 Web of Science Author Finder Search by Author Example: Mae O. Gordon

24 Web of Science Author Page

25 Web of Science Analyze Results

26 Web of Science Citation Report

27 Web of Science Citation Map Generate a Citation Map through the Abstract display page of a specific publication

28 Web of Science Citation Map

29 Web of Science Citation Map

30 Web of Science Cited-By Alerts: Publication Create publication alerts through the Abstract display page of a specific publication

31 CINAHL OVID PsycINFO Other Resources for Tracking Your Research PubMed Central PubMed (new version) EMBASE Many publishers offer article-level metrics for electronic journal articles (Examples: PLoS, BMC, etc.) Faculty of 1000 Medicine and Biology (uses ranking factors by reviewers)

32 Taking It One Step Further: Assessment of Research Impact Includes: Model and template for documenting research impact Guidance for locating evidence of research impact Strategies for enhancing research impact

33 Tips for Authors Standardize your input to maximize your output Name Institutional affiliation Review your author page in SCOPUS Create a My ResearcherID profile in Web of Science Register for free accounts on SCOPUS and Web of Science Install the Becker Library Browser Toolbar

34 Questions? Contact: Cathy Sarli Scholarly Communications Specialist Bernard Becker Medical Library Office: 106 on main floor of Becker Medical Library Link to PPT:

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