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Web Citation Index

A new concept for the modern world of scholarly communication -Building Services on the basis of Open Content

Jeff ClovisDirector, Customer Education & Sales SupportAmericas, Europe, Middle East & Africa

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Science Citation Index

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ISI Web of Knowledge

Current Contents

“On-line”Searching

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Origins:Dr. Eugene Garfield: A pioneer in the field of information

science and scientific communication. His vision: using cited reference searching as a basis for

scientific and scholarly discovery.


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The ISI Web of Knowledge is anchored by Thomson Scientific premium core content, complemented by carefully selected partner content, and

supported by powerful tools

The ISI Web of Knowledge is anchored by Thomson Scientific premium core content, complemented by carefully selected partner content, and

supported by powerful tools

Thomson Scientific Premium Content

Bibliographic Resources:

Journal Literature: •Web of Science (SCI, SSCI, AHCI) •Current Contents Connect •BIOSIS•Zoological Record

Patents:•Derwent Innovations Index

Conferences/Proceedings:•ISI Proceedings

Bibliographic Resources:

Journal Literature: •Web of Science (SCI, SSCI, AHCI) •Current Contents Connect •BIOSIS•Zoological Record

Patents:•Derwent Innovations Index

Conferences/Proceedings:•ISI Proceedings

Bibliographic Tools• EndNote• Reference Manager• ProCite• RefViz

Bibliographic Tools• EndNote• Reference Manager• ProCite• RefViz

Analytic Resources• Journal Citation Reports• Essential Science Indicators• Custom Research Services

Analytic Resources• Journal Citation Reports• Essential Science Indicators• Custom Research Services

Selected Partner Content:

•INSPEC

•PsycINFO

•CAB Abstracts

•Food Science & Technology Abstracts

•MEDLINE

Selected Partner Content:

•INSPEC

•PsycINFO

•CAB Abstracts

•Food Science & Technology Abstracts

•MEDLINE


• Simple Quick Search - Easy General Search - Flexible Advanced Search

• Valuable Cited Reference Index and Search for Full Citation Tracking

• Citation-based Related Records Reveal Research Pathways

• Robust Navigation - Currency and Depth!

• Integrated Citation Pathways for Richer Discovery– Across Databases: e.g. BIOSIS Previews “Times Cited” link to Web of Science

– Article-level Citation info to Journal Impact: Web of Science to Journal Citation Reports

– Institutional Impact to Article Citation: Essential Science Indicators to Web of Science

Advantage -- powerful search options

“Recent developments of ‘competitors’ to the Web of Science, while interesting and useful for quick links to some citing references, are

clearly not a substitute for a comprehensive citation search”

-- Dana Roth, Current Science, Nov. 2005, Vol. 89/9. p.1536.

“Recent developments of ‘competitors’ to the Web of Science, while interesting and useful for quick links to some citing references, are

clearly not a substitute for a comprehensive citation search”

-- Dana Roth, Current Science, Nov. 2005, Vol. 89/9. p.1536.


Traditional Coverage in the Web of Knowledge

Open Access Journals(Open web)

Traditional AcademicJournals

(Closed web and print)Repositories:• Pre-prints• Articles• Works in progress• Data logs• Technical Reports• etc.(Open web)


ISI Journal Selection: Open Access Journals

• 274 Open Access Journals covered (as of 02/02/06)

• Subject Areas Include:• Organic Chemistry

• Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology

• Oncology

• Genetics & Heredity

• Parasitology

• Pharmacology & Pharmacy

• Public Environmental & Occupational Health

• Tropical Medicine

• All Open Access titles are being evaluated as quickly as possible. We select these titles using the same selection criteria


ISI Journal Selection: Open Access Journals

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Raw citation counts for journals recently added (2002-1998) to Pharma category - Cites in 2002 versus Cited year


Open Access Journals(Open web)

Traditional AcademicJournals

(Closed web and print)

The addition of the Web Citation Index

Repositories:• Pre-prints• Articles• Works in progress• Data logs• Technical Reports• etc.(Open web)

Indexing new forms in communication.Comprehensive coverage of all

scholarly information


How to create a new concept?

• Use Thomson Scientific’s powerful technology and popular interface– Powerful functions and intuitive - ISI Web of Knowledge

– Cited reference search tools found in the Web of Science

– Integration with existing resources

• Partner with experts– NEC Laboratories America, the creator of software used for the

autonomous citation indexing (e.g. CiteSeer)

– Collaboration with 7 institutional partners, academic institutions that host repositories

• Build a pilot product and solicit feedback from users and repository administrators to refine the final version


Feedback from our partners

“…there are more or less separate worlds of communication at the moment…the journals covered by the traditional databases, and then this whole world which is free on the Internet somewhere. By pulling these two together and trying to integrate, at least on the level of cross citations, it helps to bring these two together.”

“the key issue is turning now on the willingness of faculty to automatically put stuff into their repository”

“what would be ideal is…some way that you can go to your people’s page or whatever it turns out to be and see each of your documents and what the citation impact has been”


How do we select the repositories

• Why select sources at all?– The question of authority and trust is increasingly a problem with material

found on the open web

• Who wrote this work? And what is their affiliation?

• Did they follow sound scientific principals?

• What were their sources?

• Who has reviewed this to make sure it is accurate and correct?

– These problems are not addresses by Web Search engines

– Researchers and Librarians simply do not have time to check every source to make sure it is authoritative and trustworthy

• Selection guidelines have been developed by Thomson Scientific using a combination of expert knowledge and decades of experience in evaluating journals and academic web sites (Current Web Contents, since 1998).


How do we select the repositories

• Authority– Who is the sponsoring body?

• Universities (MIT, ANU, Dartmouth)• Government, NGO, intergovernmental (NASA, United Nations, EU)• Research institutes, Societies etc. (Max Planck Society)• Corporate research (Hewlett-Packard, Sun Micro etc)

• Design and maintenance of site– No broken links, Ability to access full text

• Frequency of updates

• Review of the repositories policies and procedures– Is there any moderation

• Technical standards and stability etc. – Accessibility and format of full text– Compliance to standards, OAI Metadata standards


The result

• A uniform, consistent citation index to all types of content (pre-prints, archived articles, technical reports, dissertations)

• Links and citation data at article level as an incentive for every researcher to post work in an institutional repository

• Enables citation navigation within IRs and between IRs and Web of Science.

• Incorporates quality editorial process.

• Is multidisciplinary in scope, encompassing same disciplinary structure as the Web of Science wherever possible.

• All the power and functionality you would expect from an ISI Web of Knowledge resource


Full Text and repository are

searchable fields


Same functionality as the Web of Science. For example,

sort by “Times Cited” to identify influential works


Although the Full-text is searchable the Full Record displays

bibliographic data and abstract

Clicking the “View Full Text” button will link to

the item in the repository


Use citation navigation to expand the search:Cited References

Times CitedRelated Records


Associated records link an item to a related work by the same author, for example a completed paper and the initial draft of the same work


Results Analysis is also possible


Challenges

• IRs contain immense variety of document types and formats

• They are evolving in scope, content, and goals

• Huge interest in the Academic/Library Community

Web Citation Index Goals for 2006

• Grow to encompass majority of IRs (over 500 identified)

• Provide ability to view activity within repositories and across repositories

• Complement Web of Science with additional citation relationships

• Create environment for experiment and understanding of new content

How Complete Can it (Possibly!) Be?


Web Citation Index: Availability

• Institutional Partner Review:– In Progress

• Australian National University, California Institute of Technology, Cornell University, Max Planck Gesellschaft, Monash University, University of Rochester and NASA Langley

• Preview Release:– March 2006

• Full Availability:– July/August 2006


Web Citation Index Value

• Enhances the value of the repository at the university – As we index these sites they are ALL cross-seachable and linked to the

Web of Science (2,700 customers)

– For the publishing researcher of an IR paper we provide a dynamic Times Cited, WCI Full Record and equivalent Web of Science record

• Building Services on the basis of Open Content – WCI Provides another layer of added value for those institutions who

access it.

– WCI provides a new route for Web of Knowledge users to find these new types of materials

• Web Citation Index enables greater discovery of its value – By not storing or caching the full text of each repository there is no

confusion for the researcher


Thank You

Jeffrey Clovis

Director, Customer Education & Sales Support

Americas, Europe, the Middle East & Africa

February 2006

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