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