1. SCIENTIFIC SOLUTIONS Essential Science Indicators New Features of Version 2.0 Thomson Scientific September 2005

2. SCIENTIFIC SOLUTIONS Essential Science Indicators 2.0 (ESI2.0) New Features –New Look –Usage Reports –Boolean Searches –New Baselines –Navigation Aids –Bidirectional links between ESI and Web of Science

3. Copyright 2004 Thomson SCIENTIFIC SOLUTIONS New Features – Described in Brief New Look – color & fonts layoutNew Look Usage Reporting – Sub-sessions & queriesUsage Reporting Boolean searching for Hot and Highly-Cited PapersBoolean searching Baseline Upgrades: New Field Ranking page; Percentiles page expanded to give 20% & 50%Baseline UpgradesNew Field Ranking Percentiles page Navigation Upgrades: New Paper page links to Field Rankings, Research Fronts, Editorial Commentaries, & Hot Papers; Direct navigation to Field Rankings; Return To List (search results list) from RankingsNavigation UpgradesNew Paper page links Direct navigation to Field Rankings WoS links to ESI ESI-WoS links now bi-directional Other – Set Thresholds on Rankings Pages; Paper pages include a secondary sort by publication year; Graph pages link to tabular data display; Country heading changed to Country/TerritoriesSet Thresholds

4. Copyright 2004 Thomson SCIENTIFIC SOLUTIONS New look Old look New look ESI was updated on July 1, 2005 to cover a ten-year plus four- month period, January 1, 1995 - April 30, 2005

5. Copyright 2004 Thomson SCIENTIFIC SOLUTIONS ESI Usage Mock Up – (actual samples not yet available) New to Usage Reporting: subscribers to ESI will get ESI usage statistics folded into totals in August reports Essential Science Indicators ESI

6. Copyright 2004 Thomson SCIENTIFIC SOLUTIONS Usage Reports – Mock Up of daily use graph Essential Science Indicators Usage data includes sub- sessions & queries. Most points of navigation to ESI sections/pages register as queries.

7. Copyright 2004 Thomson SCIENTIFIC SOLUTIONS Boolean Searching – Capability added to papers sections By Name allows access to browse Explanatory text provided on page Designed along the lines of General Search for ease of use.

8. Copyright 2004 Thomson SCIENTIFIC SOLUTIONS Baseline Upgrades – Field Rankings Includes sort options and access to papers & graphs Key comparative data provides new context for Scientist, Country, & Journal Rankings by field.

9. Copyright 2004 Thomson SCIENTIFIC SOLUTIONS Baseline Upgrades – Field Rankings, new graphs 3 new graphs in 5 yr intervals include: by number of papers published by citation rates by average rate of citations per paper

10. Copyright 2004 Thomson SCIENTIFIC SOLUTIONS Baseline Upgrades – Percentiles table expanded New Percentiles

11. Copyright 2004 Thomson SCIENTIFIC SOLUTIONS Navigation Upgrades – Direct Link to Field Rankings Example: Enter by selected scientist Click the All Fields link to go that page where the scientist is ranked overall, (in this case at #17,560 at the bottom of p.878 for all fields.) Click the scientist link to return. Also note new option to set thresholds

12. Copyright 2004 Thomson SCIENTIFIC SOLUTIONS New Links on Papers Pages to Field Rankings, Research Fronts, Editorial Commentaries and Hot Papers You will not see every link on every paper, only where applicable. Link to editorial on this paper Link to papers ranked in this field. Sorting by publication year may bring some links to Hot papers to the top. The Research Front Link opens a page showing only the associated listing.

13. Copyright 2004 Thomson SCIENTIFIC SOLUTIONS Return to List – new toolbar button; sample 1 for papers searches Now you can go back from 3 to 2 for additional selections instead of having to reselect options on the menu (1).

14. Copyright 2004 Thomson SCIENTIFIC SOLUTIONS Now you can go back from 3 to 2 for additional selections instead of having to reselect options on the menu (1). Return to List – new toolbar button; sample 2 for rankings searches

15. Copyright 2004 Thomson SCIENTIFIC SOLUTIONS Graph pages link to tabular data display Aids legibility for some.

16. Copyright 2004 Thomson SCIENTIFIC SOLUTIONS Launch Details & Contact Contacts Japan – ts.support.jp@thomson.comts.support.jp@thomson.com Korea – ts.support.korea@thomson.comts.support.korea@thomson.com China – ts.support.china@thomson.comts.support.china@thomson.com Rest of Asia – ts.support.asia@thomson.com Launch Date September 3rd together with latest (3rd) 2005 bimonthly update in place