Web of Science Update includingJournal and Highly Cited Data Exercises November/December 2016

Context: Researchers from Newcastle University need to carry out a comprehensive literature search of all research related to ‘Prions and brain diseases”. In order for the search to be comprehensive, the researchers are advised to conduct an ‘All Databases’ search. Use Web of Science to conduct the search as requested:

  1. Go to the ‘All Databases’basic search page and enter the following query in the Topic field search:

prions“brain diseases”

Search in all years. Run the search. How many results are retrieved?

  1. In order to better understand the distribution of records by database, refine the results by database.

How many records are indexed by WoS Core Collection, MEDLINE and BIOSIS Citation Index?

  1. In order to obtain a perspective of the types of literature related to this query, refine the results by document type.Can you identify 3 document types which are not traditional journal literature?
  2. Now refine the results by WoS Core Collection. Once the results are limited to WoS Core Collection, refine the results once again by BIOSIS Citation Index. Now order the results by Publication date, oldest to newest. What is the year of publication of the oldest paper?
  3. Click on the title of the paper to open the record. Now identify in which version of the record your search terms are found. (You will need to use the ‘view record in other databases’ to change the version of the record’)

‘Prions’ is indexed by…………………..in the controlled field(s)of ………….

‘Brain diseases’ is indexed by ………………….in the controlled field(s) of………….

  1. Return the paper to the WoS Core Collection version. Now click on the Times Cited Count for this paper. Is it correct that a paper published in 2013 is citing this paper from 1960?
  2. Now return to the search results (click on return to Search Results). Are there any Highly Cited or Hot Papers related to this query? If so how many?
  3. To find out if this topic is currently of interest, order the results by ‘Usage count, last 180 days’. What is the usage count of the paper with the highest usage –last 180 days?
  4. Now click on the title of paper with the highest usage-last 180 days to open the record. What is the Impact factor of the journal and which quartile is it assigned to?

Context: A funding organization wants to evaluate the performance of a researcher. You have been asked to use their ORCID identifier in order to retrieve publications as indexed in Web of Science Core Collection. The researcher is William Lewis from Nottingham University. The ORCID is 0000-0001-7103-6981.

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  1. Go to the WoS Core Collectionsearch page and clear all previous search queries.

Enter 0000-0001-7103-6981 in search field and select ‘Author Identifier’ from the search menu.

  1. How many papers are retrieved in WoS Core Collection using the ORCID identifier?
  2. Has this researcher published in Open Access?
  1. Now run the Citation Report on the results. What is the Total Times Cited count and Average cites per paper?

Context: A researcher is preparing to submit a paper to an open access journal. In preparation for submission they want to identify which open access journals are the top performers in a field of research. Use the InCitesJCR 2015data to provide information the researcher requests.

  1. Search for journals in the category ‘biology’ and select the ‘Open Access’filter.
  2. How many OA journals are in this category? Which journal has the highest Impact Factor?
  3. Now apply the Quartile 1 filter. How many journals remain?

The researcher now wants to evaluate the performance of a specific journal which is Open Accessand inQ1. View the profile of the journal ‘BMC Biology’ by clicking on its title.

  1. Go to the Rank section for this journal. In which year was the JIF Percentile the lowest value?

UseInCites Essential Science Indicators to identify the following:

  1. A researcher published a paper in 2008 in the journal ‘Food Chemistry’ (ESI= Agricultural Sciences). The researcher wants to know how many citations are currently required in order for the paper to be classified as a ‘Highly cited’paper in this field.Use ‘Citation Thresholds’ to obtain the citations required.
  2. A group of authors want to measure the performance of a paper they published in 2010 in the journal ‘Ecosystems’ (ESI= Environment/Ecology). The paper currently has a total of 28citations.
  3. Use the ‘Citation Rates’ to determine if this papers impact is better than the average (ESI= citation rates) for the field?
  4. Use the ‘Percentiles’ to identify which percentile range this paper is assigned to based on the number of citations received (1%, 10%, 20%, 50%).