Who is Citing Your Work? Thursday Topic Series Office of Faculty Affairs 12 November 2009 BERNARD BECKER MEDICAL LIBRARY Washington University School of Medicine
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
Resources Google Scholar SCOPUS Web of Science
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 http://scholar.google.com/
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
Google Scholar Author Search Search by Author Example Query: author: Mae O Gordon
Google Scholar Publication Search Search by Publication Example Query: Baseline visual field characteristics in the Ocular Hypertension Treatment study
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
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 email or RSS feeds http://tinyurl.com/3wzccc
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 email or RSS feeds
SCOPUS Registration Register for a free SCOPUS account
SCOPUS Author Search Search by Author Example: Mae O. Gordon
SCOPUS Author Page
SCOPUS Citation Overview Report
SCOPUS Viewing of Cited-Bys
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
SCOPUS Cited-By Alerts: Author Create author alerts through the Author Page
SCOPUS Cited-By Alerts: Publication Create publication alerts through the Abstract display page of a specific publication
SCOPUS Cited Bys: Patents and Web Sources View citing patents and web sources through the Abstract display page of a specific publication
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 email or RSS feeds http://tinyurl.com/3pkgpw
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 email
Web of Science Registration Register for a free WoS account
Web of Science Author Finder Search by Author Example: Mae O. Gordon
Web of Science Author Page
Web of Science Analyze Results
Web of Science Citation Report
Web of Science Citation Map Generate a Citation Map through the Abstract display page of a specific publication
Web of Science Citation Map
Web of Science Citation Map
Web of Science Cited-By Alerts: Publication Create publication alerts through the Abstract display page of a specific publication
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)
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 http://becker.wustl.edu/impact/assessment/index.html
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
Questions? Contact: Cathy Sarli Scholarly Communications Specialist Bernard Becker Medical Library sarlic@wustl.edu Office: 106 on main floor of Becker Medical Library Link to PPT: http://becker.wustl.edu/pdf/citing.pdf