Renee Reagon

Professional Services Manager

Thomson Reuters: Africa

29 July 2014

SciELO SA User Group Meeting

50 years of innovation

Science Citation Index is 50!

The innovative thinking of Dr. Eugene Garfield, an early founder of

bibliometrics and scientometrics, made us the first and the best in

scientific indexing. His unique way of making connections between

scientific research was the precursor to what is now Thomson

Reuters Web of Science™.

Used by over 7000 organizations around the world

and Thomson Reuters is recognized as the leading

provider of citation based research information.

100% of Top 50 & 96% (96/100) of Top 100 Ranked

Institutions subscribe to the Web of Science.

Web of Science ~7,000 subscribing institutions worldwide

Providing access to >30 million users

SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF

BOTANY 1,959 3,937 YES

SAMJ SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL

JOURNAL 1,951 5,638 YES

SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF

SCIENCE 1,049 3,795 YES

HTS TEOLOGIESE STUDIES

THEOLOGICAL STUDIES 864 320 NO

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF

PSYCHOLOGY 825

28 YES

Approximately 700 titles

Over 4 million cited references

Open access with links to full text through the SciELO site

Weekly updates from the SciELO Brazil data feed

Simplified discovery process for local information in a regional

database

An easy search experience with local language interface

•SciELO maintains their own indexing standards.

•SciELO Indexing Criteria is based on:

•Only titles from SciELO certified collections that are active,

publishing on time, and with appropriate XML files will be included in

the SciELO Citation Index on Web of Knowledge.

•Journals indexed in SciELO are not automatically evaluated for

inclusion in the Web of Science.

• Scientific content

• Peer Review

• Editorial Board

• Frequency

• Lifetime (must have published at least 4 issues)

• Timeliness

• Article titles, abstracts and

keywords in English

• Standardization

• Author affiliation

COUNTRIES

•Argentina

•Brazil

•Chile

•Columbia

•Costa Rica

•Cuba

•Spain

•Mexico

•Portugal

•South Africa

•Venezuela

SUBJECT CATEGORIES

Agricultural Sciences

Applied Social Sciences

Biological Sciences

Engineering

Exact and Earth Sciences

Health Sciences

Human Sciences

Linguistics, Letters and Arts

Mathematics

Physics

Social Sciences

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Searches Sessions Record Views Citation Events

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Publishing Standards

• Peer review, Editorial conventions

Editorial content

• Addition to knowledge in specific subject field

Diversity

• International, regional influence of authors, editors, advisors

Citation analysis

• Editors and authors’ prior work

Chinese Science

Citation Index

SciELO Citation Index

KCI Korea Journal

Database

Russian citation

database

The launch of the SciELO Citation Index is part of our commitment to

regional content expansion.

Focusing specifically on BRICK regions, we will continue to partner

with local academic and government organizations to deliver

regionally relevant, multidisciplinary resources that will increase the

discoverability of content from the most rapidly developing regions.

Incorporate African contents into WoK framework

• Regional partner(s) delivers a set of data from the African content as a

baseline and periodically delivers ongoing records in XML format

• Thomson Reuters uploads the source data (article records including cited

references) supplied from regional partners via processing it in WoK data

center

• Results from the African Citation Index would be included in Web of

Knowledge “All Databases” search.

Possible Implementation - Database connection

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Web of Science

African Citation Index

B-database C-database

A-database

D-database

Regional partners

African content

Web of Knowledge

Figure: database connection from African database to WoK platform

Advantage of hosting African Citation Index on WOK

To increase visibility of African research output

• Web of Knowledge(WoK) is the premier global research platform for the

area of Sciences, Social Sciences, and Arts & Humanities with over 7000

customer worldwide.

• Showcasing the African Citation Index in WoK platform will extend the

visibility of African Citation Index to international research communities.

To improve quality of African research

• Associating African Citation Index with WoK, African researchers who want

their papers to be shown in African Citation Index have to ensure they

meet minimum standards defined by the local partners.

• This can motivate African researchers to enhance their research output

quality and such process can help to upgrade overall African research

quality in the future.

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Advantage of hosting African Citation Index on WOK cont.

Use the African Citation Index to gain insight into

research in the region:

• The Global impact of African research

• Collaborations between Africa and the rest of the world

• Research focus, trends and hot topics in Africa

Extended coverage from the fastest growing and

increasingly important research region

• Identify leading researchers and institutes

• Find out who is being cited in Africa

• Find out which journals are being published and used in

African research