1. How to Use “Indian Citation Index (ICI)”
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How to Use
“Indian Citation Index (ICI)”

2. INDIAN CITATION INDEX: CURRENT STATUS
Home grown multidisciplinary bibliographic & citation database
Fully matured product with ~935 Journals of all disciplines
Holds 5,35,000+ Source Articles with 100, 00,000+ References Data
Aims to enhance visibility, measurability & evaluation of knowledge productivity appear in
journals published from India.
Only tool for comprehensive analysis and evaluation of journals literature published from India
Data depth is 12 years plus, i.e onwards
Tool for objective & comprehensive analysis of research productivity
User friendly search & analytical features

3. LOGIN PROCESS Login to www.indiancitationindex.com
Create a new account using valid id as the username.
Get the confirmatory along with the password in your account.
Use that username & password to log on the website and access the ICI.

4. Click here for user registration
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5. FILL THIS FORM AND REGISTER IN ‘ICI’ AS USER
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6. MAJOR ACCESS POINTS AT ‘ICI TOOL BAR’ Cited Reference Search
Institution Analyzer
Marked Records
Journal Analyzer
Search History
Simple
Search
Data Comparer
Advanced Search
Cited Reference Search
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7. SEARCH --- General Search Title Topic Author Publication Name
Document Type
Institution
City\State\Country
Advanced Search
User may write his/her own search strategy and may combine different search sets as per need
Institution Analyzer
Place
Subject Category
Top 50 Institution
Data Comparer
Name of Institution
Place
Author
Group of Institution
Top 50 Institution
Journal Analyzer
All Journals
Title word
Name/ISSN
Subject Category
Publisher
Cited Reference Search
Cited Author
Cited Work
Cited Year
Note: Set time span as per need while searching
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8. GENERAL SEARCH
Search
Combine word(s) and phrase(s) to Search across the source records in the Indian Citation Index.
Select AND, OR, NOT to establish the relationship between given search fields.
Use the drop down to select your Search field. Search by Title, Topic, Author, Publication Name, Document Type, Institution or City/State/Country
User may define/select intended ‘Time Span’ 2004 to present
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10. Parameters for further refinement
Link to the article
Citation Count
Link to google scholar
Parameters for further refinement

11. FULL RECORD Titles Times Cited Counts Authors Reference Abstract
Full titles of articles are indexed and searchable.
Times Cited Counts
Times cited counts in Indian Citation Index are displayed on each record. Counts display all received citations irrespective of subscribed/non-subscribed journals, etc.
Authors
All authors are indexed. Search using last name and initials (e.g. Garfield e*)
Reference
Click on the Cited given References number to move to the Cited References, will view the References records/list.
Abstract
All articles abstracts are indexed as provided by the journal .
Author Keywords and Additional Keywords given by Indexer
Author Keywords are indexed and searchable. Additional Keywords are word(s) and phrase(s) harvested from the titles of articles, cited articles, abstract and subject vocabularies.
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12. TIMES CITED
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13. CITED REFERENCES 7-Dec-18 Cited Reference Search
All cited references are indexed and searchable via Cited Reference Search. Click the “References” link on the full record to move to the cited reference view.
Unlinked References
Reference source(s) which are not from Indexed source that are not linked to full records and that will display in plain text.
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14. RELATED RECORDS
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15. VIEW CITATION REPORT
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16. REFINE SEARCH
Left Hand side Panel can be used for further refinement of retrieved result. It is used to narrow down search result on desired parameter.
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17. REFINE WITHIN INSTITUTE
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18. NAVIGATE WITHIN PREVIOUS SEARCH
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19. SPECIAL ANALYTICAL FEATURES
INSTITUTION ANALYZER
DATA COMPARER
JOURNAL ANALYZER

20. 1. INSTITUTION ANALYZER

21. INSTITUTION ANALYZER
Institution Analyzer presents a comprehensive analytical details (through graphs & tables) of an institution, in terms of articles published, citations received, and details of journals in which articles are published, details of the authors in terms of papers published / citation received.
You can search institute using its different attributes, like Institution, Place, Author, Subject Category, and Top 50 Institution.
In this dropdown menu, we can check the hierarchy structure of institutes.
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22. INSTITUTION ANALYZER Step 1
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23. Click on it to get full records
INSTITUTION ANALYZER
Step 2
Click on it to get full records
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24. 2. DATA COMPARER

25. DATA COMPARER
Data Comparer is a tool which offers comparative analysis of more than one contributor(Author), Institution and Place, etc.. This functionality can show how two or more Author/institutions/places varies in the kind of work they do or compare contribution made in a certain field.
Firstly, we can search institute by using following parameter:
Name
Place
Author
Group of Institution
Top 50 Institutions
Then, we get a list of institutes and out of the displayed list of institutes, intended name of institute can be selected for comparison.
Currently, maximum 05 institutions can be compared at a time. User has the option to compare an institution or remove it from the list or can change time span.
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26. DATA COMPARER
Step 1
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27. Get list of institutes by selection on given parameters, add institutes to the comparer list (Max. 5), clicking in corresponding Box of institutes list
Step 2
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28. Click here to show full records
Retrieved result can be seen in tabular & graphical forms, each one can reflect all measureable attributes of comparable entities
Step 3
Click here to show full records

29. 3. JOURNAL ANALYZER

30. JOURNAL ANALYZER
Journal Analyzer provides a quick, easy and transparent view of journal performance.
Search for all journals in a specific subject area and view their current details and performance over time.
Citation and article counts are important indicators of how frequently current researchers are using individual journals.
By tabulating and aggregating citation and article counts of a journal, the Journal Analyzer feature can enable the user to evaluate and compare journals.
Search by: Please choose All Journals/ Title Word / Name or ISSN Search term
Subject Category: Use subject category to filter or narrow down the search results
Publisher: Use publisher to filter search results.
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31. JOURNAL ANALYZER Step 1 (iii) Search by publisher (i) Search by
(ii) Search by subject category
(iii) Search by publisher
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32. JOURNAL ANALYZER
Step 2
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33. JOURNAL ANALYZER
Step 3
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34. SUBJECT CATEGORY
Subject Category feature facilitates novice/expert user to elicit intended information by making use of three level subject categorization, i.e. level I, II and III. Level – I is the main/broad subject category of a discipline, like Agriculture, Chemistry, Physics, etc. ; Level – II is subset/concept of main/broad subject category and Level – III is the article’s based micro level concept of Level – II subset/concept of a main/broad subject category.
This feature is useful even for laymen users as it does not require advance knowledge of terminology used in a subject (s)
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35. HOW TO MAKE USE OF SUBJECT CATEGORY?
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36. 4. CITED REFERENCE SEARCH

37. CITED REFERENCE SEARCH
When scholars/researchers publish scholarly articles, there is a list of references/bibliography of works that were used/referred while developing scholarly article. This list of scholarly works attached thereto is also known as Cited Work or Cited Reference.
Search can be done using Cited Work/Reference as Search String
For searching information using Cited Work, or Cited Reference does not require subject knowledge or search expertise.
How to do a cited reference search?
Enter the name of the Cited Author; the title of a Cited Work, Cited Year then click Search.
Enter Cited Reference as “Search String” in search field and click for search. You will find good number of retrieved records.
The Cited Reference Search gives more exact/relevant search results.
Using Cited Reference search one can go forward and backward for seeing the advancement of the concept and point of primordial research paper from where concept have been germinated.
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38. CITED REFERENCE SEARCH
Step 1
Step One
Search by Cited Author, Cited Work and Cited Year.
Use the full Journal name.
Step Two
Select the references, including variants, to include in your search, then click “Finish Search” to display your search results.

39. FLOW OF CITED REFERENCE SEARCH
Step 2
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40. RESULT OF CITED REFERENCE SEARCH
Step 3
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41. SELECTION OF RELEVANT RECORDS
Click to view the marked list
Mark the records you want to
output and then click submit
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42. EXPORT DATA IN DIFFERENT FORMAT

43. RETRIEVED OUTPUT & ‘EMAIL’ THERETO IN YOUR ACCOUNT
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44. SAVE RETRIEVED OUTPUT IN ‘EXCEL FORMAT’

45. ADVANCE SEARCH
The Advanced Search allows you to create complex queries using field tags, set combinations or a combination of both. Please note that you cannot mix set combinations and field tags in a single search query.
Also searching can be made combining two set of earlier searches. For combining two sets of searches, combine sets using Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT).
Also use time span.
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46. HOW TO MAKE USE OF ADVANCE SEARCH?
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47. HOW TO COMBINE TWO SETS OF SEARCHES?
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48. SEARCH HISTORY
All successful searches are added to the Search History table.
To save time & efforts, you can use this feature and combine earlier done searches sets with Boolean Operators (NOT, AND and OR) and retrieve the results.
Search history feature provide to save their searches for later use.
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49. HOW TO MAKE USE OF SEARCH HISTORY?
Click here to get full records
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