Gauging Research Output and Influence

Gauging Research Output and Influence Using Traditional Citation Tools and Unique Analytical Solutions.

ALA 2010 Midwinter MeetingJan 15-19, Boston

Paul TorpeyJeff Dougherty

Today’s Discussion

Web of Science Data

• Foundational strengths and what this provides

• Unleashed -- unique presentation and utilization in multiple resources

Origins: The Web of Science and Citation Indexing Dr. Eugene Garfield, the concept: A citation index

approach to scientific and scholarly discovery – unique methods for identifying associations and connections between published works on a multidisciplinary scale.

The Web of Science Foundation

Web of Science Content Quality

– Carefully managed , ongoing Collection Development . Every Journal is individually selected for influence within its respective discipline .

– Unique Data - Thomson Reuters captures available author cited references for all published papers back to 1900

Diversity -- Truly Multidisciplinary Journal Coverage

– All fields of study are included, 250+ categories – 12,000+ unique titles

– Science Citation Index Expanded – 8,160 titles

– Social Sciences Citation Index – 2,780 titles

– Arts & Humanities Citation Index – 1,500 titles

Depth -- Great Depth of Coverage is Available

– To 1900 in the Sciences – To 1900 in the Social Science– To 1975 in the Arts & Humanities


Web of Science Conference Proceedings

Proceedings literature is an essential component of international scholarly communication.

Web of Science Conference Proceedings Citation Indexes:• Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Science (CPCI-S)

• Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Social Science & Humanities (CPCI-SSH) 1990-present

• CPCI files are fully integrated into Web of Science, behaving exactly as the SCIE, SSCI and A&HCI files.

– Weekly updates

– Coverage of approximately 12,000 conferences annually

– Proceedings in book or book series form, monographic sources, account for approximately 70% of content.





– All fields of study are included, 250+ categories – 11,300 unique titles







Web of Science – More than “Science” Social Sciences Citation Index – 2,700+ TitlesAnthropology Gerontology Psychology

Area Studies Health Policy & Services Public Administration

Business History Public, Environmental & Occupational Health

Communication Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism

Rehabilitation

Criminology & Penology Industrial Relations & Labor Social Issues

Demography Information Science & Library Science

Social Sciences

Economics International Relations Social Work

Education Law Sociology

Environmental Studies Linguistics Substance Abuse

Ergonomics Management Transportation

Ethics Nursing Urban Studies

Ethnic Studies Planning & Development Women’s Studies

Family Studies Political Science

Geography Psychiatry Diversity – Web of Science Supports All Academic Programs

Arts & Humanities Citation Index – 1,500 Titles

Archaeology Folklore Medieval & Renaissance Studies

Architecture History Music

Art Humanities Philosophy

Asian Studies Language & linguistics

Poetry

Classics Literary Reviews Religion

Dance Literary Theory Theater

Film, Radio, Television

Literature

Web of Science – More than “Science”

Diversity – Web of Science Supports All Academic Programs

One of the truly powerful features of Web of Science is the Cited Reference Search

Retrieves information often missed through use of Keywords alone -- essential for truly comprehensive searching. AND…

The ability to enter a wide range of items in the Cited Work field – not only a Journal but a Film, a notable Book or Report, Novel, or even Work of Art, and retrieve articles that have cited these works – is a way to gather relevant information that may not have been found in any other way.

A True Citation Index – Unmatched in Depth and Diversity Displaying all cited works, whatever the form – Journal Articles, Books, Conference Papers, etc. Browse – Discover Select Precise Works on which to search, or to eliminate from a search.

Web of Science Forward Citation Map

Psychology, Experimental

Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence

Business

Religion

Business




– Consistent indexing• All author names and all address are indexed for every Web of

Science record


Web of Science – Consistent Indexing

Faculty and Institutional Publication Output and Evaluation

• Analyze Results– View trends and access subsets of data

• Citation Report– Quickly produce an overview of a topic or one’s published

works, as well as an indication of the collective influence of those works.

• Citation Map– Visualize two generations of forward and backward

citations

Wright State UniversityTop 10 Cited Papers 1900-2008

Web of Science Citation Report: Ronald Glaser

Citation Report: Influenza Topic Search

Web of Science – powerful “Analyze Results” features

Analyze Results features are present in all ISI Web of Knowledge databases

– as well as All Databases search results.

Web of Science – Citation Map

Web of Science – Backward Citation Map

2nd generation citations reveal citation pathways

Web of Science®

Web of Science is an extremely valuable “intelligence” resource – a tool for characterizing and gauging published

output and influence for institutions, individuals, countries, etc. – indispensible for basic comparisons.

Journals

Papers

Authors

InstitutionsDisciplines

Web of ScienceWeb of Science

Web of Science®

Appalachian State University

A comparison of output and citation of Economics papers.

Western Illinois University

Appalachian State University

A comparison of output and citation of Economics papers.

Western Illinois University



Web of Science®

Using Web of Science to compare five faculty researching and publishing within Materials Science, we know which produces the more

influential work on average.

Using Web of Science to compare five faculty researching and publishing within Materials Science, we know which produces the more

influential work on average.

But, how “good” is this?

Avg. Cites Per Paper

3.2

5.7

7.8

10.5

13.3



Web of Science®

Comparison of “averages” to gauge performance is valuable, but only within the appropriate context, within

some definitive or authoritative group.

Web of Science®

For serious assessment activities it is essential to take a more sophisticated approach to the data.

Bibliometrics Scientometrics InfometricsCitation

Metrics

Evaluation of Research

• Self-Assessment – understanding where you’ve been, where you are today, and where you want to be in the future.

• Use your precious resources more effectively – Strategic planning

– Assist in measuring ROI

– Researcher-level assessments- tenure review, etc.

– Report progress to government bodies, boards of directors/ trustees, funding agencies, etc.

– Recruiting

Of Key Importance -- the Establishment of Baselines…

Essential in order to provide comparative capabilities

From established Baselines, we can normalize the influence of published works and present real metrics to reflect research performance.

Customer defined data sets providing article-

level source records and related detail. This is

most typically comprised of papers associated

with a particular Institution, but can also

be “topic” defined.

Summary information and metrics on published output and performance at the the institution and

country level.

Average citations specific to Category, year of article, and document type.

For Your Institution – Papers

Percentile position specific to field and year. -- The closer to zero, the more highly cited.

For Your Institution – Papers

Relative Performance

At-a-Glance

With a baseline of 1.0 for each, you immediately have a gauge of the level of influence of an author’s collective

works compared other published work in the field.

For Your Institution – Authors

For Your Institution – Authors

For Your Institution – Disciplines

The published intellectual output of a university presented by discipline.

Here too, gauge relative influence at a glance.

For Your Institution – Disciplines

The published intellectual output of a university presented by discipline.

Here too, gauge relative influence at a a glance.

For Your Institution – Peer Institution Comparisons

Country Level Analytics

Citation Analysis is Objective in nature -- a key piece of the overall Research Evaluation puzzle.

Citation Metrics

Awards/Honors

Funding data

Peer review

American Documentation, Vol. 14, No.3 , p. 195-201 1963

Eugene GarfieldEugene Garfield Derek J. de Solla PriceDerek J. de Solla Price

Price, DJDArchives Internationale d'histoire Des SciencesNo 14, p 85, 1951

Thomson Reuters Research Analytics Solutions

Gauging Research Output and Influence Using Traditional Citation Tools and Unique Analytical Solutions.

ALA 2010 Midwinter MeetingJan 15-19, Boston

Jeff DoughertyPaul Torpey

Gauging Research Output and Influence

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