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Lund University / Presentation 2010
Citation Analysis
lunch seminar, 4 May 2012
LTH Libraries
Lars Andersson, Maria Johnsson
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Agenda
1. Introduction to citation analysis
2. Demonstration of some systems for citation
searching
3. Other tools and applications and further training
4. Discussion
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1. Introduction to citation analysis
”A professor asks you, ”Who is citing my articles? How many times have I been cited? What is my h-index score?”A student asks you, ”How do I know if this article is important?”Another professor asks you, ”Which journal should I publish in for my tenure?”A different students asks you, ”What are the best journals in the field of Anthropology?”
Robin Kear & Danielle Colbert-Lewis 2011, "Citation searching and bibliometric measures: Resources for ranking and tracking", College & Research Libraries News, vol. 72, no. 8
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1. Introduction to citation analysisHistorical background of citation index: • 1873, ”Shepard’s Citations” was the first citation system, created by Frank Shepard (law)
• 1960, Eugene Garfield’s Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) introduced the first citation index for papers published in academic journals called ”Science Citation Index (SCI)”
• During the 1970s and 1980s ”Science Citation Index” developed from print to digital form
• 1997, ISI launched ”Web of Science”, the web-based interface of ”Science Citation Index”
Sources: Stephanie Ballard & Marcia Henry 2006, "CITATION SEARCHING: New Players, New Tools", Searcher, vol. 14, no. 9Robin Kear & Danielle Colbert-Lewis 2011, "Citation searching and bibliometric measures: Resources for ranking and tracking", College & Research Libraries News,
vol. 72, no. 8
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1. Introduction to citation analysis
Definition of citation index: ”A citation index is a kind of bibliographic database, an
index of citations between publications, allowing the user to easily establish which later documents cite which earlier documents”.
Source: WIKIPEDIA. Citation index
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1. Introduction to citation analysis
Cited references • are always retrospective in nature• pointing to documents in the past
Citing references• are always prospective in nature• referring to previously published documents used
by subsequent authors writing at a future time
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1. Introduction to citation analysis
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3. Other tools and applications Examples of applications at SciVerse (Elsevier): ”Co-author analyzer””Co-author visualizer” Read more at: http://www.applications.sciverse.com/action/gallery?
pageOrigin=appGallery&zone=header
Examples of tools at Web of Knowledge (Thomson Reuters): • Citation map• Citation report• ”My Citation alerts” • ”Scientific Web Plus”Read more at: http://apps.webofknowledge.com.ludwig.lub.lu.se/
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3. Further training and tutorials
Sciverse/Scopus (Elsevier): http://hubhelp.sciverse.com/flare/Content/
tutorials/ICS_Hub_menu.html
Web of Knowledge (Thomson Reuters): http://wokinfo.com/training_support/training/
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3. Further reading• HAMMOND, C. C. & BROWN, S. W. 2008. Citation
Searching: Search Smarter & Find More. Computers in Libraries, 28, 10-12.
• ROBIN, K. & DANIELLE, C.-L. 2011. Citation searching and bibliometric measures: Resources for ranking and tracking. College & Research Libraries News, 72, 470.
• STEPHANIE, B. & MARCIA, H. 2006. CITATION SEARCHING: New Players, New Tools. Searcher, 14, 24.
• WIKIPEDIA. Citation index [Online]. Available: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citation_index [Accessed 2012-05-02.
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4. Discussion
Questions:
1. Would you use citation searching in the future? If yes, in what way / for which purpose?
2. What is your impression of the tools and applications? Useful? Not useful?
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Tuesday 15 May at 14-16pm
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maria.johnsson@bibliotek.lth.se
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Thanks for joining in today!
Maria Johnsson, LTH LibrariesE-mail: maria.johnsson@bibliotek.lth.se
Lars Andersson, Library of Chemistry and Chemical EngineeringE-mail: Lars_A_H.Andersson@chemeng.lth.se