1. Who’s citing you? Citation tracking tools. Angela Carritt & Juliet Ralph angela.carritt@bodleian.ox.ac.uk juliet.ralph@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

2. In this session Citation tracking - what it is and why its important Citation tracking and finding out who’s citing you using: Web of Science Scopus Google Scholar. Creating citation alerts. WISER Bibliometrics and the Black Art of Citation Ranking - more on measuring research impact and measuring research impact for individuals, groups and journals

3. 2008 1870 1980 2009 2010 2008 2006 2010 } Papers that share one or more citation in common - related Later papers that cite “your” paper { } Earlier papers referred to in “your” paper 2007

4. Why bother Trace the progress of research backwards, forwards and sideways Identify research papers in your field / stay ahead of competitors Assess the impact of your research – grants / jobs

5. Web of Science Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI)--1945-present Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)--1956-present Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI)--1975-present Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Science (CPCI-S)- -1990-present Coverage: thousands of journals, conference papers, review papers, notes of meetings, letters, book reviews, art exhibits, poetry…but not books

6. Search example Effectiveness of PowerPoint presentations in lectures Bartsch, RA & Cobern, KM Source: COMPUTERS & EDUCATION Volume: 41 Issue: 1 Pages: 77-86 Published: AUG 2003 Cited references Times cited

7. General v Cited Reference General quick and easy but may be incomplete can also search for book review Cited Reference search Thorough – picks up variant citations Includes books (cited by papers on WOS) Includes publications that pre date the citation indexes (cited by WOS)

8. Cited Reference Search

9. Scopus www.scopus.comwww.scopus.com Huge bibliographic database covering 15,000 journals & conference proceedings in Science Medicine Social sciences “Citations” column indicates times the article was cited. “View references” displays the article’s bibliography.

10. Cited references in Google Scholar References include ‘cited by’ data based on articles known to Google Scholar Entries ranked by number of cites Though not all entries actually cite the article! Not possible to sort, save sets or analyse Still useful for picking up citations in journals not covered by WoS or Scopus (especially non-english language), plus dissertations/theses, conferences, books, unpublished items such as Powerpoint shows etc…

11. How did they compare? Web of Science 42 citing articles; 19 unique to WoS Scopus 45 citing articles; 10 unique to Scopus Google Scholar 117 citations; 79 unique Beware of phantom citations 19 references in common across the 3 databases.

12. Other databases Citing articles are becoming a feature in many databases Historical Abstracts Medline, Embase, PsycInfo, BIOSIS Previews …and other life science databases on the Ovid platform JSTOR Full-text databases such as ScienceDirect, WileyInterScience Number of times it has been cited in that database. Look for links such as “Cited by”, “Citing articles”

13. Set up Citation Alerts

14. Here to help Your Subject Librarian www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/libraries/subjects/librarian swww.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/libraries/subjects/librarian s Radcliffe Science Library www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/science enquiries.rsl@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

15. Over to you Try an online tutorial from the list at www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/science/training/tutorials www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/science/training/tutorials Web of Science Or do your own search on Web of Science or Scopus Start at SOLO http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk or OxLIP+ http://oxlip-plus.bodleian.ox.ac.uk and search for database namehttp://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk http://oxlip-plus.bodleian.ox.ac.uk