citations and journal rankings for pbrf september 2011

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CITATION SEARCHING AND JOURNAL RANKINGS:

A WORKSHOP FOR AUT RESEARCHERS

Prepared by Robyn RamageSeptember 2011

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Contents

1. Citation searching: Who has cited your published work? ...................................... 11.1 Scopus Document Search ................................................................................ 2

Example 1 ..................................................................................................... 2Example 2 ..................................................................................................... 4Example 3 ..................................................................................................... 6

1.2 Scopus Citation Overview ................................................................................ 7Example 4 ..................................................................................................... 7

1.3 Find all the works in Scopus by one author - Author Identifier ....................... 8Example 5 ..................................................................................................... 8

1.4 Web of Science Cited Reference Search ....................................................... 11Example 1 ................................................................................................... 11

Example 2 ................................................................................................... 13Example 3 ................................................................................................... 14

1.5 Analyse the articles in Web of Science by one author - Citation Report ...... 15Example 4 ................................................................................................... 15

1.6 Google Scholar finding items that cite your work ........................................ 17Example 1 ................................................................................................... 17

2. Journal rankings and impact factors ...................................................................... 192.1 Journal Citation Reports ................................................................................... 19

Example 1 ................................................................................................... 19Example 2 ................................................................................................... 20

2.2 SJR and SNIP ..................................................................................................... 23

2.3 Scopus Analyzer ................................................................................................ 23Example 1 ................................................................................................... 24

2.4 SCImago Journal & Country Rank database ................................................... 25

2.5 ERA 2010 Journal Ranking ................................................................................ 26

2.6 Finding out about journals ................................................................................ 27


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Citation searching and journal rankings September 2011Page 1

1. Citation searching: Who has cited your published work?

Citation information is relevant to the Nominated Research Outputs (NROs), Peer Esteem(PE) and Contribution to the Research Environment (CRE) sections of your PBRFevidence portfolio.

The 2012 PBRF round will focus on your research publications in the period 2006 to 2011but you may also provide information about earlier publications that have been cited duringthis PBRF period. This can be an indication of the ongoing influence of your research.

There are three big tools you can use to find out who has cited your published work andwhere. We recommend you use all three. Although they may return identical results, there isa good chance that at least one tool will find something the others do not find. Each of thesecan be accessed from the AUT Library Database list.

Web of Science- the original tool for this technique (starting back in the 1950s with the Science Citation

index in hardcopy) and for many years unchallenged

Scopus- can be easier to use than Web of Science

Google Scholar- easy to use but coverage is hard to determine and does not have the analytical

functions of the other two

Several other databases on the Librarys databases list, as well as some scholarly journalpublishers websites, also provide information about where an article has been cited.Generally this will be less comprehensive than the Big 3 but is still worth looking at.

Typical wording to look out for in databases:- Times cited- Cited by- Citation tracker- Citation report
http://www.aut.ac.nz/library/search/databaseshttp://www.aut.ac.nz/library/search/databases/web-of-sciencehttp://www.aut.ac.nz/library/search/databases/scopushttp://www.aut.ac.nz/library/search/databases/google-scholarhttp://www.aut.ac.nz/library/search/databases/google-scholarhttp://www.aut.ac.nz/library/search/databases/scopushttp://www.aut.ac.nz/library/search/databases/web-of-sciencehttp://www.aut.ac.nz/library/search/databases


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September 2011 Citation searching and journal rankingsPage 2

1.1 Scopus Document Search

AUT Library homepage>> Databases >> S >> Scopus

About this database- provides coverage of 18,500 peer-reviewed journals (inc. >1,800 open access journals)

and 4.4 million conference papers

-broad coverage of disciplines but significant bias towards scientific, technical and medicalliterature

- incomplete citation information for articles published before 1996- more than half of Scopus content originates in Europe, Latin America and the Asia Pacific

region- references can be exported easily to an EndNote library

There are two ways to search Scopus for citations of your work, depending on the type ofpublication.

Method-1

This method works onlyif your work is a journal article that is included in the Scopusdatabase. It finds other journal articles in Scopus that cite your article.

Example 1 Find out if this article has been cited:

Smythe, E.A., Ironside, P.M., Sims, S.L., Swenson, M.M., & Spence, D.G. (2008). DoingHeideggerian hermeneutic research: A discussion paper.International Journal ofNursing Studies, 45(9), 1389-1397. doi:10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2007.09.005

(i) Use Document Search(ii) Search for the article of interest using a combination of keywords from the title and the

authors family name(iii) Title words use a reasonably long or distinctive phrase from the title and put doublequotation marks around the phrase

(iv) Click Add search fieldto add a second search box in which to enter authors family name;change drop-down box to search in Authorsfield

Search like this:

The result shows this article has been cited 7 times by other journal articles.

Click the number to see a list of these 7 articles:
http://www.scopus.com.ezproxy.aut.ac.nz/search/submit/author.url?author=Smythe%2c+E.A.&authorId=7004238298&origin=recordpagehttp://www.scopus.com.ezproxy.aut.ac.nz/search/submit/author.url?author=Ironside%2c+P.M.&authorId=7004034216&origin=recordpagehttp://www.scopus.com.ezproxy.aut.ac.nz/search/submit/author.url?author=Sims%2c+S.L.&authorId=7101651308&origin=recordpagehttp://www.scopus.com.ezproxy.aut.ac.nz/search/submit/author.url?author=Swenson%2c+M.M.&authorId=7006553183&origin=recordpagehttp://www.scopus.com.ezproxy.aut.ac.nz/search/submit/author.url?author=Spence%2c+D.G.&authorId=7103023529&origin=recordpagehttp://www.scopus.com.ezproxy.aut.ac.nz/source/sourceInfo.url?sourceId=28137&origin=recordpagehttp://www.scopus.com.ezproxy.aut.ac.nz/source/sourceInfo.url?sourceId=28137&origin=recordpagehttp://www.scopus.com.ezproxy.aut.ac.nz/source/sourceInfo.url?sourceId=28137&origin=recordpagehttp://www.scopus.com.ezproxy.aut.ac.nz/source/sourceInfo.url?sourceId=28137&origin=recordpagehttp://www.scopus.com.ezproxy.aut.ac.nz/source/sourceInfo.url?sourceId=28137&origin=recordpagehttp://www.scopus.com.ezproxy.aut.ac.nz/search/submit/author.url?author=Spence%2c+D.G.&authorId=7103023529&origin=recordpagehttp://www.scopus.com.ezproxy.aut.ac.nz/search/submit/author.url?author=Swenson%2c+M.M.&authorId=7006553183&origin=recordpagehttp://www.scopus.com.ezproxy.aut.ac.nz/search/submit/author.url?author=Sims%2c+S.L.&authorId=7101651308&origin=recordpagehttp://www.scopus.com.ezproxy.aut.ac.nz/search/submit/author.url?author=Ironside%2c+P.M.&authorId=7004034216&origin=recordpagehttp://www.scopus.com.ezproxy.aut.ac.nz/search/submit/author.url?author=Smythe%2c+E.A.&authorId=7004238298&origin=recordpage


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To exclude self-citations from the results list, use the AuthorName list on the left of the screen:

First click View more to see a longer list of authors of theciting articles

Tick all appropriate variations on the author name Click Exclude

The results list will now comprise 4 journal articles, none of whichis authored by Liz Smythe.

As with any citation results, each of the citing documents shouldbe checked to ascertain the nature of the citation (is itfavourable?) before quoting it in a PBRF portfolio.

Another step you may take from the initial results screen is to click the title to get to thearticle record.


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The article record display gives you two options for investigating citations of the article:

A link to the 7citing articles ishere.

The article hasalso been cited14 times byweb sources(universityrepositories,theses &dissertations).Note: this listoften includesduplicate items.

Note: once you have found your journal article in Scopus, it is a good idea to set up an emailalert or an RSS feed so you will be kept informed of any future citations to your article linksfor this are on the right of the journal article record:

For an email alert, you must first register with Scopus for a personal account.

For an RSS feed, you must first subscribe to an RSS reader.

For help, consult your Liaison Librarian or our online guide:http://aut.ac.nz.libguides.com/rss

Method-2This method will enable you to find journal articles in Scopus that cite your work when it is a publication that is not itself in Scopus. This method works by searching through the referencelists of Scopus journal articles to find a citation of your work. It is not quite asstraightforward as Method-1 but is the only option for tracking down citations of books,chapters, reports, conference papers, theses, etc. in Scopus.

Example 2 - Find out if this book has been cited by any journal articles in Scopus:

Moon, P. (2008). This horrid practice: The myth and reality of traditional Maori cannibalism.Auckland, New Zealand: Penguin Books.

(i) Use Document Search(ii) Search for the publication of interest using a combination of keywords from the title and

the authors family name(iii) Title words use a reasonably long or distinctive phrase from the document title and put

double quotation marks around the phrase(iv) Click Add search fieldto add a second search box in which to enter authors family name;

change drop-down box to search in Authorsfield
http://aut.ac.nz.libguides.com/rsshttp://aut.ac.nz.libguides.com/rsshttp://aut.ac.nz.libguides.com/rsshttp://aut.ac.nz.libguides.com/rss


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Search like this:

In this case, the result is at first confusing as it looks like no hits:

Ignore the Scopus tab and click on the More... tab to get this result:

Note: the grey text and the symbol indicate that this document (i.e. the book) is not in theScopus database so we cannot obtain any further information about it in Scopus.

One more step...now click the number in the Citationscolumn to find details of the Scopusarticles that cite this book:


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For your PBRF portfolio, if your research output was published prior to the PBRFassessment period (2006-2011) but is still being cited within the PBRF assessment period,you can include this information in your Evidence Portfolio as an indication of Peer Esteem(PE).

Example 3: Look for 2006-2011 citations of this book:

Norris, S. (2004). Analyzing multimodal interaction: A methodological framework. London,England: Routledge.

Search like this:

Click the More...tab:

The results list shows 3 items, one of which is a citation that includes an incorrect date:

Initially there is no way to combine the citations in these three results; you need to click each

number in turn to get the lists of citing articles. For each list in turn, you can use the RefineResults section on the left of the screen to exclude self-citations (as we did for Example 1,page 2). You can also use it to refine the date range to 2006-2011. Select all the remainingitems in the list and click Add to My List (above the results).

Finally, click My List at the top of the Scopus screen, to view all the citing articles.

Notes about this method:1. The results list may include variants of the publication if citing authors have made errors

in the citation (e.g. if date or volume are incorrect).2. Consider refining the results to excludeself-citations and/or to includea date limit so that

citations are those published in the PBRF assessment period, 2006-2011.

3. This type of search does not appear in the Scopus search historyin a useable way socannot be combined with other parts of a search strategy. This also means that searchalerts and RSS feeds are not feasible with this type of search.


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1.2 Scopus Citation Overview

This feature of Scopus generates a tablefor one article or for a list of articles, showing howthe articles have been cited over a range of years.

Example 4: Search for this article co-authored by Kate Kearins:

Livesey, S. M., & Kearins, K. (2002). Transparent and caring corporations? A study ofsustainability reports by the body shop and Royal Dutch/Shell. Organization andEnvironment, 15(3), 233-258.

Search like this:

Result:

It has been cited 40 times by articles in the Scopus database. Select the article on the resultslist (use tick box on left) and click View citation overviewto see how often this article hasbeen cited each year from the publication date until the present. Change the date range to2006 to 2011 and exclude self-citations of all authors:


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1.3 Find all the works in Scopus by one author - Author Identifier

The Scopus Author Identifierassigns each author a unique number and groups together allworks by an author despite variations in formatting of the name in different publications. It isespecially useful for distinguishing between authors who share very common names likeSmith or Wang or Lee. The authors institutional affiliation can be used to narrow down thesearch. A Citation Overview can be generated for the completed list of publications.

Example 5: Look for articles by John Bitchener from AUT.

Method:(i) Click Searchthen the Author Searchtab; enter the last name and first initial(ii) Enter the affiliation to narrow the search (optional) as well as selecting a broad

subject area (optional)(iii) Click Search

(iv) On the Author resultsdisplay, tick all the name variations that you consider relevant.There may be a list or only one, as in this case.

Note: sometimes there are errors in the Scopus author results: e.g. there may be more thanone entry for the same person and/or documents may be attributed to the wrong person. Thewhole point of the author identifier scheme is that all the works of one author are correctlyassigned to one unique identifier, so if you find any discrepancies in the results for your ownpublications you should contact Scopus to request a correction. Use the Request to mergeauthors link or contact your Liaison Librarian or the Research & Postgraduate Coordinatorfor help.

(v) Having selected the relevant author name(s), click Show documentsto retrieve the list ofall the authors articles or click Viewcitation overviewto see the citation data for thearticles. You may wish to change the date range and exclude self-citations.


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Included on the Citation overview is the h-index: a measure of a researcher's impact on his/her discipline.The value of h is equal to

the number of papers (N) in the list that have N or more citations.

also known as the Hirsch index or Hirsch number (developed by J.E. Hirsch in 2005)

The h-index for John Bitchener (based on these 12 articles) is 4 because there are 4 articleswith 4 or more citations.

(vi) Use the browser back button to return to the Author resultsdisplay. Click the authorsname to open the author details page. Things to note on this page - especially if youare the author:

- Author ID number the unique number assigned by Scopus- Link to send a request to Scopus for author detail corrections- Links to set up email alerts/RSS feeds to inform you when this author publishes a

new document or is cited by new documents in Scopus

-Find potential author matches: check to see if there are other author names inScopus that are really you. You can then generate and view merged publicationlists and citation data for all author name variants. Remember to contact Scopusto get this merging done permanently.


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1.4 Web of Science Cited Reference SearchAUT Library homepage >> Databases >> W >> Web of Science

About this database- a huge multi-disciplinary research-focussed database providing coverage of over 10,000

high impact journals in 3 citation indexes: Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1,160 journals) Science Citation Index (over 6,650 journals) Social Sciences Citation Index (over 1,950 journals

- also provides coverage of over 120,000 published international conference proceedings- even if a published item itself is not indexed in WoS you can still find journal articles and

conference papers that cite it. This means that an item cited by an article/paper in WoScould be a book, book chapter, journal article, conference paper, etc.

- coverage outside the USA (apart from UK and Netherlands) is limited and coverage ofnon-English journals is not as good as that of Scopus

- much stronger in physical sciences and medicine than other disciplines- references can be exported easily to an EndNote library


Macky, K., & Boxall, P. (2008). High-involvement work processes, work intensification andemployee well-being: A study of New Zealand worker experiences. Asia PacificJournal of Human Resources, 46(1), 38-55. doi:10.1177/1038411107086542

Method Start by using the Cited Reference Searchfunction Search by the first authors family name and initial(s) and the year of the publication: It helps to add a truncation symbol after the first initial, i.e. search for macky k*

It is not usually necessary or worth the effort to search in the Cited Workfield as this

requires the correct journal abbreviation

Search like this:

From the result list you can usually spot the article of interest. Note that, due to errors in theciting authors reference lists, there may be one or more variants of the article of interestshowing on this list. Tick all that seem relevant. In this case there are two relevant entries,with a total of 10 citing articles. Tick the boxes and click Finish Search.


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The 10 articles that cite Keith and Peters article will then be displayed:

Click articlelinker or the FullText button to access eacharticle and check the nature ofthe citation (is it favourable?)


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An alternative to Cited Reference Searchis to use the normal Searchoption and look for thejournal article of interest, e.g. using keywords or a phrase from the article title. If the article isincluded in Web of Science, the record will show Times Citedand a link to the citing articles.However, this method is less comprehensive than the above method as it does not allow forany citation variants. It also will not provide any information at all if the article has not beenindexed by this database, e.g. if it is outside the journals/conferences covered.

Example 2 Look for articles that have cited this article:

Koziol-McLain J., Giddings L., Rameka M., & Fyfe E. (2008). Intimate partner violencescreening and brief intervention: Experiences of women in two New Zealand healthcare settings. Journal of Midwifery and Women's Health, 53(6), 504-510.doi:10.1016/j.jmwh.2008.06.002

To search for the hyphenated family name, we should include two possibilities in the CitedAuthorbox:

We get three results. Tick the box next to the relevant entry and click Finish Searchto findthe 6 articles that have cited this one.

Note: - the ellipsis preceding Janes name in the first and second entries on the results listindicates that these are articles on which Jane is not the first-named author. Click ViewRecordto see the details of each of Janes articles.
http://www.scopus.com.ezproxy.aut.ac.nz/search/submit/author.url?author=Koziol-McLain+J.&origin=resultslist&authorId=7004522030http://www.scopus.com.ezproxy.aut.ac.nz/search/submit/author.url?author=Giddings+L.&origin=resultslist&authorId=6701834975http://www.scopus.com.ezproxy.aut.ac.nz/search/submit/author.url?author=Rameka+M.&origin=resultslist&authorId=8854297500http://www.scopus.com.ezproxy.aut.ac.nz/search/submit/author.url?author=Fyfe+E.&origin=resultslist&authorId=16238547800http://www.scopus.com.ezproxy.aut.ac.nz/search/submit/author.url?author=Fyfe+E.&origin=resultslist&authorId=16238547800http://www.scopus.com.ezproxy.aut.ac.nz/search/submit/author.url?author=Rameka+M.&origin=resultslist&authorId=8854297500http://www.scopus.com.ezproxy.aut.ac.nz/search/submit/author.url?author=Giddings+L.&origin=resultslist&authorId=6701834975http://www.scopus.com.ezproxy.aut.ac.nz/search/submit/author.url?author=Koziol-McLain+J.&origin=resultslist&authorId=7004522030


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To exclude self-citations from theresults list, open the Authors list onthe left menu.

Click more options to expand theauthor list.

Tick any author(s) you wish toexclude and click the Excludebutton.

The results list will nowcomprise 5 journal articles,none of which is authored byJane Koziol-Mclain.

It is possible to derive some citation data for a publication that is not itself in the Web ofScience databaseas long as it has been cited by a journal article or conference paper that isincluded in Web of Science. To illustrate this try the following Cited Reference Search.

Example 3 Look for citations of this book:

Waring, M. (1999). Counting for nothing: What men value and what women are worth(2nded.). Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press.

Search like this:

The results list is lengthy (and includes works by other authors named M Waring withadditional initials) but in the middle of the list we can see 3 entries for the book of interest:


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There is no View Record link alongside these entries because Web of Science does notcontain any information about the book other than the details of the 20 journal articles thatcite it.

Tick the 3 boxes and click Finish Search to generate a list of these 20 articles.

Tips for finding your name and your publications in Web of Science: if you are a co-author and are not the first author listed on the work, it is best to search

using the name of the first listed author as this will pick up all citation variants even if you publish using your full given name or more than one initial, it is usually

advisable to truncate after the first initial as you may have been cited with just one initiale.g. giddings l*

if your family name contains a hyphen or apostrophe, enter the name both ways, i.e. withor without the punctuatione.g. tourani-rad a* or touranirad a*

if your family name is reasonably unusual and your publication list is not huge, it is easyto search for citations of all your works in one search, i.e. not limited to a specificpublication year

1.5 Analyse the articles in Web of Science by one author - Citation Report

The Web of Science Author Finder should allow us to identify all the articles in the databaseby one author, regardless of the variations in the formatting of the authors name in differentpublications. However, there is currently a bug in this function and it cannot be relied upon. Technical Support at Thomson Reuters have advised the problem will be solved in the nextdatabase update.

In the meantime, an alternative is to use the ordinary Search option and combine theauthors name plus first initial, variations on the institution name and the appropriatepublication date range. When a list of articles has been found, a Citation Report can begenerated that illustrates the number of items published and their citation rates over a rangeof years.

Example 4 Look for articles by Lynne Giddings from AUT

Method:(i) Enter the family name and first initial followed by an asterisk (the truncation symbol, to

allow for other initials and/or full given name); use the drop-down box to select Author.(ii) In the second search box enter these variations: aut or auckland univ technol(iii) Use the second drop-down box to select Address.(iv) Select the publication date range.(v) Click Search.


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On the results screen (6 articles) click .

The Citation Report shows you the number of citations of each article in each year as well

as totals and the h-index. If need be, you can use the checkboxes to delete any entries thatare not by the author of interest and click Goto re-generate the report.

The citation data for earlier years can be viewed by clicking the orange arrow. The citingarticles for each of Lynne Giddings articles can be displayed by clicking the blue totals.


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Included on the Citation Report is the h-index: a measure of a researcher's impact on his/her discipline.The value of h is equal to

the number of papers (N) in the list that have N or more citations. also known as the Hirsch index or Hirsch number (developed by J.E. Hirsch in 2005)

The h-index for Lynne Giddings (based on these 6 articles) is 3 because there are 3 articleswith 3 or more citations.

Note: Web of Science provides a Citation Alert function so you can be kept informed offuture citations of a specified article, via email. To use this feature, you first need to registerfor an account. Look for the Register link under Customise Your Experience on the right ofthe Web of Science Search screen. Once you have signed in to Web of Science, search for

the relevant article and click the button.

1.6 Google Scholar finding items that cite your workAUT Library homepage >> Databases >> G >> Google Scholar

About this tool- not possible to determine the sources Google Scholar covers and it does not have the

same sort of quality control as most library-subscribed databases- highly cited items usually appear near the top of a Google Scholar results list- Google Scholar often helps you find citations of your work in books or web-based report

literature not found in Scopus or Web of Science- does not have the analytical capacity of Web of Science or Scopus (but see also Publish

or Perish a software program by Anne Harzing that uses Google Scholar to retrieve andanalyse academic citationshttp://www.harzing.com/pop.htm)

- go to Google Scholar from the AUT Library Database List to ensure you will be able toaccess fulltext of any articles in e-journals to which the Library subscribes

- references can be exported from Google Scholar to an EndNote library one at a time


Hope, W. (2006). Global capitalism and the critique of real time. Time & Society, 15(2-3),275-302. doi:10.1177/0961463X06066943

Method(i) Search for the article by using a phrase from the title (enclosed in double quotation

marks) and the authors family name.(ii) This example uses the basic search but also consider using Advanced Scholar Search.

Click to see the 18 items that cite this article.
http://www.harzing.com/pop.htmhttp://www.harzing.com/pop.htmhttp://www.harzing.com/pop.htmhttp://www.harzing.com/pop.htm


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The results include journal articles (use AUT articlelinker to access the fulltext), books,theses and other items from institutional repositories.

The list may include duplicate entries and, as with any citation results, the citing documentsshould be checked to ascertain the nature of the citation (is it favourable?) before quoting it

in your PBRF portfolio.

In Google Scholar you can create an email alert so you will be kept informed when any newitems cite your article. Click this link on the results list of citing articles:


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2. Journal rankings and impact factors

Journals within a specific discipline are often rankedaccording to their influence and impact,determined by formulae based on citation data, i.e. analysis of the rate at which articles in agiven journal are cited in other journal articles. Journal impact factors should always beinterpreted cautiously. They are intended as a relative measure within a discipline, not as a

numeric value to be taken in isolation.

2.1 Journal Citation ReportsUntil a few years ago, the unchallenged leader in the field of "journal metrics" was ISI(Institute for Scientific Information, now part of Thomson Reuters). They developed theImpact Factor concept and their database Journal Citation Reports. This uses citationdata drawn from over 11,000 scholarly and technical journals from more than 3,300publishers in over 80 countries. It is published annually in two editions.

To access the database:AUT Library homepage >> Databases >> J >> Journal Citation Reports

Choose one of the two editions: JCR Science Edition contains data from over 8,000 journals in science and

technology JCR Social Sciences Edition contains data from over 2,600 journals in the social

sciences

Example 1Start in the JCR Science Edition 2010. Choose the option to view a group of journals bysubject category. The choice of categories can be somewhat limited. We will look atEmergency Medicine:


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There are 23 journals in this subject category, sorted initially by journal title. Re-sortthem by Impact Factor:

What do all the numbers mean?JCR provides many different metrics. The most frequently used of these is the impact factor

which is defined as follows:

The journal Impact Factor is the average number of times articles from the journal publishedin the past two years have been cited in the JCR year.

For Prehospital Emergency Carethe impact factor for 2010 is calculated thus:

Cites in 2010 to items published in: 2009 = 115 Number of items published in: 2009 = 74

2008 = 157 2008 = 70

Sum: 272 Sum: 144

Calculation:Cites to recent items 272 = 1.889

Number of recent items 1448

For moredefinitions, see page 22 of this guide or click the buttons in the database.

Example 2To return to the search options, click the Welcomebutton. Now search for a specific journalby title:

journal of midwifery & womens health

Tip: JCR is fussy! This title will not be found if you type andinstead of the ampersand andyou must omit the apostrophe in womens. If you know the ISSN (international standardserial number) you can search that instead.


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The numbers on their own dont mean a lot so click the journal title to find out more:

This journal is in the Nursing subject category. Click View Journal Summary Listto see the

full list of journals in that category and to make a comparison of impact factors and other data(alternatively click Journal Rankingbutton). Sort the Journal Summary List by Impact Factor.

By moving to page 2 of the Journal Summary List you can see that Journal of Midwifery &Womens Health ranks 36th on the list of 88 journals in this subject category in terms ofimpact factor:


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Other links to explore on the Journal Informationview:Related journals: a list of journals based on the strength of cited and citing relationships.Go to Ulrichs: link to publication information about this specific journal in the UlrichsWebGlobal Serials Directorydatabase.Go to CC Connect:view the table of contents of this journals latest issue in the CurrentContentsdatabase.

Some definitions of the numbers in Journal Citation Reports

Cited half-life The median age (years) of the articles that were cited in the JCR year.Half of a journal's cited articles were published more recently than thecited half-life.

EigenfactorTMmetrics

Article influenceTM score is a measure of the average influence of each ofits articles over the first five years after publication.Eigenfactor scoreTM is a measure of the journal's total importance to thescientific community.

See also:www.eigenfactor.org/faq.htmImmediacyindex

The average number of times an article is cited in the year it is published. The journal Immediacy Index indicates how quickly articles in a

journal are cited. The aggregate Immediacy Index indicates how quickly articles in a

subject category are cited.Impact factor The average number of times articles from the journal published in the

past two years have been cited in the JCR year.

The Impact Factor is calculated by dividing the number of citations in theJCR year by the total number of articles published in the two previousyears. An Impact Factor of 1.0 means that, on average, the articles

published one or two year ago have been cited one time. An Impact Factorof 2.5 means that, on average, the articles published one or two years agohave been cited two and a half times. Citing articles may be from the samejournal; most citing articles are from different journals

ISSN International standard serial number - a unique eight-digit number used toidentify a print or electronic periodical publication.

What can you do if the journal of interest is not included in Journal Citation Reports?Try the other tools/schemes that provide impact factors/journal rankings:

Scopus Analyzer or SCImago to derive SJR and SNIP measures Eigenfactor

ERA 2010 Ranked Journal List from Australian Research Council (note: for ERA2012, the Journal List will not include rankings) Use a journal ranking list specific to your discipline if a reputable one exists
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2.2 SJR and SNIPThese metrics have been developed with a view to mitigating some of the problemsperceived with the Impact Factor used in the Journal Citation Reports database. Both can befound in the Journal Analyzer in the Scopus database (click Analytics). SJR is also availablein the SCImago Journal & Country Rank database.

Definitions (information provided by Scopus):

SJR SCImago Journal Rank- a prestige metric based on the idea that all citations are not created equal. With SJR,

the subject field, quality and reputation of the journal has a direct effect on the value of acitation.

- is weighted by the prestige of the journal, thereby leveling the playing field amongjournals.

- eliminates manipulation: raise the SJR ranking by being published in more reputablejournals.

- shares a journals prestige equally over the total number of citations in that journal.-

normalizes for differences in citation behaviour between subject fields.

SNIP Source Normalized Impact Paper- measures contextual citation impact by weighting citations based on the total number of

citations in a subject field. The impact of a single citation is given higher value in subjectareas where citations are less likely, and vice versa.

- measures contextual citation impact by normalizing citation values.- takes a research fields citation frequency into account.- considers immediacy - how quickly a paper is likely to have an impact in a given field.- accounts for how well the field is covered by the underlying database.- calculates without use of a journals subject classification to avoid delimitation.- counters any potential for editorial manipulation.

The SJR and SNIP metrics for an individual journal can be used in much the same way as anImpact Factor from the Journal Citations Report database. As with the impact factor, the SJRand SNIP should not be taken in isolation but should each be interpreted as a relativemeasure within a discipline.

2.3 Scopus AnalyzerThis is a feature of the Scopus database that allows you to compare up to 10 journals fromthe 18,500 covered in Scopus.

AUT Library homepage >> Databases >> S >> Scopus

Click Analyticson the top menu bar.


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Example 1Search for: work employment and society

Drag it from the results list on the left over to the analyzer pane on the right:

Now search for: new technology work and employment

Note: the search will work if you use either and or the ampersand will work.

Drag this one over to the analyzer pane so you can compare the SJR for these two journals:

You may add up to 10 journals to the analyzer pane. Click the tabs above the analyzer paneto view different measures for the group of journals being analysed.


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Below the chart, on the list of journal titles, click Show Infoto view information aboutan individual journal, including the SJR and SNIP for the latest year.

2.4 SCImago Journal & Country Rank database

AUT Library homepage >> Databases >> S >> SCImago Journal & Country Rank

This database covers more journals than Journal Citations Report but you will still not findevery journal here.

Try the Journal Rankingsoption and select:Subject area = Business, Management and AccountingSubject category = Organizational Behavior and Human Resource ManagementClick Refresh to generate the journal list for this category.

There are 77 journals in this category. The metrics, for example SJR and H index, arederived from citation data in the Scopus database. Hover over the table heading to see anexplanation of each metric.


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H IndexThe h index expresses the journal's number of articles (h) that have received at least hcitations. It quantifies both journal scientific productivity and scientific impact and it is alsoapplicable to scientists, countries, etc.

Try the Compareoption and select up to4 journals by title togenerate comparisoncharts using a varietyof parameters

Also try:

Journal Searchoption to look for an individual journal

Journal Rankingsoption and Country=New Zealand to see the New Zealand journalscovered in this database

2.5 ERA 2010 Journal RankingThis is a list compiled by the Australian Research Council for their 2010 ERA (Excellence inResearch for Australia) process. It can be downloaded as a zip file from the AUT Library

website:Library >> Services for Research >> PBRF support >> Journal impact factors & rankings

Information from the ARC website: 20,712 unique peer reviewed journals have been included in the ERA 2010 Journal List. Each journal has a single quality rating (or is not ranked) and is assigned to one or more

disciplines defined by Field of Research (FoR) code(s). A journal's quality rating represents the overall quality of the journal. This is defined in

terms of how it compares with other journals and should not be confused with itsrelevance or importance to a particular discipline. There are four tiers of quality rating: A*,A, B or C.

Journals that commenced in 2008 were considered too new to be assigned a firm quality

rating so are not ranked. In May 2011, it was announced that rankings would not be included in the Journal List for

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Find out more about the ERA list at:http://www.arc.gov.au/era/era_journal_list.htm

This unofficial site provides easy access to the ERA list, by journal title or research field:http://lamp.infosys.deakin.edu.au/era/

2.6 Finding out about journalsBefore submitting an article to a journal, find out more about the journal by using:

UlrichsWeb Global Serials Directory database:AUT Library homepage >> Databases >> U >>Ulrichs or use the link from the journalinformation in JCR. Click the Abstract/Indexing and Article Accesstab to find out whichdatabases index the journal.

The journal publishers website.

Set up an RSS or email alert for the Table of Contents monitor the articles beingpublished in a target journal. See the AUT Librarys guide to RSS and Alerts:

http://aut.ac.nz.libguides.com/rss- in particular, the ticTOCs tab. Contact your LiaisonLibrarian or the Research & Postgraduate Coordinator for more help with this.
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