WHY USE IT? It’s big (coverage & time) It’s interdisciplinary It’s free (to you…) It’s only a click away It does some “tricks” that nothing else can do

Web of Knowledge Web of Science Inspec MEDLINE Journal Citation Reports Other stuff we can’t get to because we didn’t pay for it Because it’s too pricey Because we have it in some other platform Other stuff we don’t want to talk about today

Web of Knowledge Web of Science Inspec MEDLINE Journal Citation Reports

Web of Knowledge Web of Science Inspec MEDLINE Journal Citation Reports

Web of Knowledge Web of Science Inspec MEDLINE Journal Citation Reports

Web of Knowledge Web of Science Inspec MEDLINE Journal Citation Reports

Web of Knowledge Web of Science Inspec MEDLINE Journal Citation Reports

Web of Knowledge Web of Science Inspec MEDLINE Journal Citation Reports

astronomy electronics communications ergonomics computers & computing computer science control engineering electrical engineering information technology physics

Respiratory Monitoring System on the Basis of Capacitive Textile Force Sensors Wireless and batteryless blood pressure sensor Design of wireless sensor system for neonatal monitoring Non-invasive Blood Oxygen Saturation Monitoring for Neonates Using Reflectance Pulse Oximeter Intensive care and Wireless Inspec

Patient safety management: RFID technology to improve emergency room medical care quality Process simulation of triage for emergency medicine under huge disaster A Zero-Footprint 3D Visualization System Utilizing Mobile Display Technology for Timely Evaluation of Stroke Patients Use of neural networks to predict adverse outcomes from acute coronary syndrome for male and female patients Inspec Emergency Room Triage

Leveraging complex event processing for smart hospitals using RFID No room for error: RFID-enabled smart point-of- care medication process in hospital wards Dual-frequency Active RFID Solution for Tracking Patients in a Children's Hospital An Activity Theory Analysis of RFID in Hospitals Stage implementation of RFID in hospitals Redesigning the replenishment process of medical supplies in hospitals with RFID Inspec RFID in Hospitals

Web of Knowledge Web of Science Inspec MEDLINE Journal Citation Reports

Radio Waves Equipment Design Product Labeling Automatic Data Processing Patient Identification Systems Computer Aided Design Materials Management Hospital Telemetry MEDLINE

Social Responsibility Quality Assurance Health Care Health Care Reform Delivery of Health Care Quality of Health Care Models Organizational Managed Care Programs Primary Health Care MEDLINE

Patient Centered Care Models Organizational Hospital Restructuring Efficiency Organizational Total Quality Management Organizational Innovation Patient Satisfaction Delivery of Health Care Integrated MEDLINE

Web of Knowledge Web of Science Inspec MEDLINE Journal Citation Reports

Web of Knowledge Web of Science Inspec MEDLINE Journal Citation Reports

Cited by…

Times cited…

Which one is better…?

Google Scholar’s simplicity may actually be a boon Some institutions cannot afford Web of Science Google Scholar offers some non-periodical sources

Google-Scholar is much more clumsy to use, if you’re going to collect (download & analyze) citation data Google-Scholar is valuable for international and different formats

Don’t trust Google Scholar to sort properly, detect duplicates, etc.

Google scholar looks at non- scholarly sources, and this can be useful, or a distraction

Accuracy of Google Scholar is lower… Web of Science is criticized for being American-based, English- language

Google Scholar is better at finding citing sources in non- English literature from Africa, Asia and Central and South America.

All three tools yielded unique material There’s no simple solution

A certain published paper, 2004 … T i m e …

ROBIN LARSON ELLIOTT FISHER

Robin & Elliott’s paper, 2004 … T i m e … 18 papers, from 2005 to 2011

Robin & Elliott’s paper, 2004 … T i m e … 40 papers, from 1976 to papers, from 2005 to 2011

Robin & Elliott’s paper, 2004 … T i m e … 40 papers, from 1976 to papers, from 2005 to 2011

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Web of Knowledge Web of Science Inspec MEDLINE Journal Citation Reports

Web of Knowledge Web of Science Science Citation Index (1899-present) Social Sciences Citation Index (1956- present) Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975- present)

# of articles published in the Journal in previous two years How many times were these articles cited this year Impact Factor

# of articles published in the Journal in previous two years How many times were these articles cited this year

# of articles published in the Journal in previous two years How many times were these articles cited this year Impact Factor

Amim, M and Mabe, M (2007) Impact factors: use and abuse

Eigenfactor Score Times articles from a journal have been cited over past 5 years – Gives more weight to highly cited journals – Journal self citations are removed – The scores of all JCR journals add up to be 100 Article Influence Score A weighted 5 year impact factor – Normalized so the average influence score = 1 See Eigenfactor.org for more information