THOMSON REUTERS WEB OF KNOWLEDGE – CITATION UNIVERSE

Philip Purnell GSS

April 2010

THE DATA

• Web of Science

– Conference Proceedings Citation Index – Century of Social Sciences

• Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge - The Citation Universe– Web of Knowledge 5 upgrade

– Biosis Citation Index

– Chinese Science Citation Database

• Research Analytics

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THE DATA

• Web of Science

– Conference Proceedings Citation Index

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CPCI – ON WEB OF SCIENCE

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Search by - Conference title - Location - Date - Sponsor

• Two Editions:- Science & Technology - Social Sciences & Humanities

• Approx 5.5 million records• Updated Weekly• Over 385,000 records per year • More than 120,000 conferences covered in total• Approximately 12,000 conferences covered annually• Coverage from 1990, cited references from 1999• Comprehensive, multidisciplinary and international coverage from

conferences proceedings published in books, journals, reports, series, and preprints

• Details of each conference are indexed and searchable, data includes: conference title, sponsor, location, description and date

WEB OF SCIENCECONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS CITATION INDEX

A combined set of results from both Conference Proceedings and Journal literature.

Refine options are a useful tool to narrow a search. For example narrow by subject classifications or document type to focus on the most relevant materials

Full Web of Science functionality with Conference Proceedings content

Details of both conference and source publication

Classified by Document Type

Source item is assigned to standard subject classifications

THE DATA

• Web of Science

– Century of Social Sciences

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WEB OF SCIENCEDEPTH OF CITATION INDICES

Science Citation Index

SSCI

Century of Science1900

1956

A&HCI1975

1945

Century of Social Sciences1900

CPCI199056 years of added coverage in the Social Sciences

>300 journals added that focus on the first half of last century

CENTURY OF SOCIAL SCIENCESBREAKDOWN BY FIELD

CoSS distribution by field Title CountANTHROPOLOGY 24

COMMUNICATION 18

ECONOMICS & MANAGEMENT 47

EDUCATION 31

GEOGRAPHY 12

HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES 1

LAW 30

POLITICAL SCIENCE 10

PSYCHIATRY 21

PSYCHOLOGY 65

PUBLIC HEALTH 20

SOCIAL ISSUES & SOCIOLOGY 29

Total 308

CASE STUDY:Charles Warren Thornthwaite

• C. Warren Thornthwaite was a Geographerand Climatologist best known for devising a Climate Classification System proposed in his landmark paper in 1948 which also discusses the importance of evapotranspiration on climate.

• Thornthwaite published 28 papers between 1931 and 1965, mostly in the fields of Geography and Geochemistry & Geophysics.

• His works have gone on to be highly influential to researchers in many fields and in recent years have been particularly utilized by researchers involved in climate change and water management

The works of C. Warren Thornthwaite

Thornthwaite produced 28 highly influential works in the Social Sciences which have been consistently cited throughout their history

THE DATA

• Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge - The Citation Universe– Web of Knowledge 5 upgrade

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ISI WEB OF KNOWLEDGE 5 webofknowledge.com

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ISI WEB OF KNOWLEDGE 5 CITATION UNIVERSE

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CITATION COUNTS USING WEB OF KNOWLEDGE VALUES

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WEB OF KNOWLEDGECITATION BREAKDOWN TABLE

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THE DATA

• Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge - The Citation Universe– Biosis Citation Index

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BIOSIS CITATION INDEXBIOSIS CONTENT WITH CITATION DATA

• Biosis Previews– Widest collection of life sciences fields in the world

– agriculture, biodiversity, biotechnology, botany, drug discovery, gene therapy, marine biology, wildlife conservation, zoology

• Biosis Citation Index – Provides cited references for BIOSIS Previews

• Cited references for all Previews content (beginning 2006)

• Cited references for 60% of high impact Previews journals (1926 - 2005)

• Exclusive to ISI Web of Knowledge platform

BIOSIS CITATION INDEXON ISI WEB OF KNOWLEDGE 5

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BIOSIS CITATION INDEXSEARCHING

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Set your search parameter defaultsSelect years, use lemmatization and sort by publication date

BIOSIS CITATION INDEX CITATION BREAKDOWN TABLE

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BIOSIS CITATION INDEXCITATION REPORT

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BIOSIS CITATION INDEXANALYZE RESULTS

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Analyze by Super Taxa

BIOSIS CITATION INDEXCITATION MAP

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2nd generation citations reveal citation pathways

Citation maps can find relevant papers not returned in your search results

BIOSIS CITATION INDEXSUMMARY

• Combines – World-leading Biosis life sciences content

– with valuable cited references back to 1926

• Enhances – Web of Science searches via the All Database Search

using common indexing backbone

• Employs – ISI Web of Knowledge cited reference searching

• Exclusive – ISI Web of Knowledge

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THE DATA

• Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge - The Citation Universe– Chinese Science Citation Database

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EMERGENCE OF CHINESE RESEARCH

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CHINESE SCIENCE CITATION DATABASEAVAILABLE NOW!

• Over 2 million records

• Over 13 million cited references

• Subject Areas– Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Geosciences, Biology,

Agricultural Sciences, Engineering (Computer Science, Mechanics, etc.), Medicine, and Management

• Dual Language– Since 2002, 80% of records have full English bibliographic

information and most have English abstracts

• Content is searchable in both English and Chinese

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CSCDCITATION BREAKDOWN TABLE

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Bibliographic information in English and Chinese