THOMSON REUTERS INCITES Marta Plebani Country Account Manager
THOMSON REUTERS INCITES Marta Plebani – Country Account Manager – Italy, Slovenia, Croatia 12 May 2011
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE CITATION INDEX • Concept first developed by Eugene Garfield – Science, 1955 • The Science Citation Index (1963) – – SCI print (1960’s) On-line with Sci. Search in the 1970’s CD-ROM in the 1980’s Web interface (1997) Web of Science • Content enhanced: – – – Science Citation Index – Expanded (SCI-E) Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) Arts & Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI) Book Citation Index (BKCI) – coming soon!
WHY NOT INDEX ALL JOURNALS? 40% of the journals: • 80% of the publications • 92% of cited papers 4% of the journals: • 30% of the publications • 51% of cited papers
HOW DO WE DECIDE WHICH JOURNALS TO INDEX? • Approx. 2. 500 journals evaluated annually – 10 -12% accepted • Thomson Reuters editors – Information professionals – Librarians – Experts in the literature of their subject area Web of Science Journals under evaluation Journal ‘quality’
THOMSON REUTERS JOURNAL SELECTION POLICY • 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
GLOBAL RESEARCH REPRESENTATION WEB OF SCIENCE COVERAGE Region # Journals from Region in Web of Science Europe 5, 573 49% North America 4, 251 38% Asia-Pacific 965 9% Latin America 272 2% Middle East/Africa 200 1% Language # Journals in Web of Science English 9114 81% Other 2147 19%
WEB OF SCIENCE SUMMARY • World’s largest citation index – >49 millon papers (75% with citations) – Approx. 800 million citations • Multidisciplinary – 252 categories covering Science, Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities • 110 years consistent coverage – Publishers, societies, open access and electronic journals • Content derived from – 12, 000 scholarly journals – 120, 000 conferences • Updated weekly • Exclusively hosted on ISI Web of Knowledge platform
GLOBAL RESEARCH COMMUNITY USING WEB OF SCIENCE North 760 institutions America 2 countries Europe, Middle 2, 500+ institutions East and 50 countries Africa Asia- 353 institutions Pacific 26 countries Latin 244 institutions America 12 countries Ø 4. 000 Research institutions Ø 91 countries 8
GOVERNMENTS AND INSTITUTIONS USING TR DATA FOR EVALUATION (INCL. ) • Germany: DFG-IFQ, Max Planck Society • United Kingdom: King’s College London; HEFCE • France: Min. de la Recherche, OST - Paris, CNRS • Russia: Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR), St. Pete State U • European Union: EC’s DGXII(Research Directorate) • US: National Science Foundation (since 1974), NASA • South Africa: Ministry Sci & Tech, Univ Pretoria, Natl Research Foundation • Canada: NSERC, FRSQ (Quebec), Alberta Research Council • Australian Academy of Science, gov’t lab CSIRO • Japan: Ministry of Education, Ministry of Economy, Trade & Industry • People’s Republic of China: Chinese Academy of Science • University rankings agencies (THE, Shanghai, etc. ) 9
JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR All Previous Years 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2009 Impact Factor Citations Source paper – published in 2009 Cited reference – published in 2007 or 2008
JOURNAL CITATION REPORTS - JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR 11
CONSISTENCY IS THE KEY TO VALIDITY Ø Authoritative data from the world’s leading provider of research evaluation data Ø Strict selection policy applying consistent criteria over the last 50 years Ø This has created a large set of journals containing comparable papers and citations Ø One consistent editorial policy Ø Unique set of multi-disciplinary comparable data
GLOBAL COMPARISONS 13
PRODUCTIVITY CROATIAN PAPERS IN WEB OF SCIENCE 14
PERFORMANCE CROATIAN PAPERS IN WEB OF SCIENCE 15
CROATIA’S BEST PERFORMING RESEARCH AREAS 16
CROATIA’S PHYSICS PAPERS PERFORMANCE 17
SUBJECT AREAS 18
SELECT FIELDS FOR DEEPER ANALYSIS 19
DETECT EMERGING & DECLINING FIELDS 20
GLOBAL COMPARISONS 21
UNIV ZAGREB’S PHYSICS PERFORMANCE COMPARED GLOBALLY 22
SAVING AND SHARING REPORTS 23
RESEARCH PERFORMANCE PROFILES 24
JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR USE AND LIMITATIONS Journal Impact Factor = 2, 011 Source: Thomson Reuters In. Cites 25
BENCHMARK YOUR PAPERS AGAINST GLOBAL AVERAGES – IS THIS A HIGHLY CITED PAPER? Articles published in ‘Blood’ from 2004 have been cited 34, 30 times This paper has received 40/34, 30=1, 17 times the expected citations for this journal Hematology articles from this year have been cited 18, 83 times This article is ranked in the 12, 92 nd percentile in its field by citations This paper has received 40/18, 83=2, 12 times the expected citations for this subject category 26
ALL WEB OF SCIENCE PAPERS FROM UNIVERSITY 1981 - 2011 27
WHICH AUTHORS’ PAPERS HAVE PERFORMED BEST IN THEIR FIELD? Computer Science Medicine 28 Source: Thomson Reuters In. Cites
OVERVIEW OF A RESEARCHER 29
PRODUCTIVITY BY UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT
DEPARTMENTAL COMPARISON Cardiovascular Division Computer Science 31
DEPARTMENTAL ANALYSIS 32
DEPARTMENTAL ANALYSIS 33
SELF-CITATIONS 34
WITH WHOM DOES OUR FACULTY COLLABORATE? 35
WHICH OF THOSE COLLABORATIONS ARE THE MOST VALUABLE? 36
IN WHICH JOURNALS DO OUR PHYSICISTS PUBLISH? 37
AND THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY INFLUENCED BY OUR RESEARCH? 38
WHO IS CITING US IN THE FIELD OF PHYSICS? 39
THOMSON REUTERS INCITES THE FUTURE 40
INSTITUTIONAL PROFILES A WIDER LOOK AT RESEARCH EVALUATION
VIEW AN INSTITUTIONAL PROFILE
CREATE A CUSTOMISED RESEARCH FOOTPRINT …
… COMPARE CHARACTERISTICS OF DIFFERENT UNIVERSITIES Better reputation Better citation score
CREATE A TREND GRAPH …
… COMPARE SELECTED PARAMETERS NATIONALLY & GLOBALLY
CREATE A SCATTER PLOT …
… COMPARE SELECTED INSTITUTIONS WITH 500 GLOBAL PEERS
THOMSON REUTERS INCITES Marta Plebani – Country Account Manager – Italy, Slovenia, Croatia 12 May 2011
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