Science citation index

Andleeb Asim
Punjab University Student

1. SCIENCE CITATION INDEX Presented to : Dr Asif Naveed Presented by : Andleeb Asim 06 A

2. TABLE OF CONTENTS Origins Evolutions History Web of Science Services Searching Techniques Access Requirement Problems

3. 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. Dr. Garfield’s 1955 article in Science introduced citation indexes as a new type of classification tool -- Use a citation as a search term (instead of a keyword) and as a way to follow the “development path” of an idea.

4. EVOLUTION OF CITATION INDEX 1960’s Science Citation Index Print 1970’s Sci Search, Social Sci Search 1980’s CD-ROM version, Late 1990’s Web of Science

5. HISTORY  Science Citation Index (SCI) originally produced by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) and created by Eugene Garfield in 1960. SCI was officially launched in 1964. ISI was acquired by Thomson Scientific & Healthcare in 1992.  It is now owned by  Clarivate Analytics since 2016.

6. W eb of science  (previously known as  web of knowledge ) is an online subscription-based scientific citation indexing . That provides a comprehensive citation search. It gives access to multiple databases that reference cross-disciplinary research. WEB OF SCIENCE

7. SERVICES

8. CITATION DATABASES Conference Proceedings Citation Index  covers more than 160,000 conference titles in the Sciences starting from 1990 to the present day Science Citation Index Expanded  covers more than 8,500 notable journals encompassing 150 disciplines. Coverage is from the year 1900 to the present day. Social Sciences Citation Index  covers more than 3,000 journals in social science disciplines. Range of coverage is from the year 1900 to the present day.

9. CONT…….. Arts & Humanities Citation Index  covers more than 1,700 arts and humanities journals starting from 1975. In addition, 250 major scientific and social sciences journals are also covered. Index Chemicus  lists more than 2.6 million compounds. The time of coverage is from 1993 to present day. Current Chemical Reactions  indexes over one million reactions, and the range of coverage is from 1986 to present day. Book Citation Index  covers more than 60,000 editorially selected books starting from 2005.

10. WEB OF SCIENCE COVERAGE Subject Science, social science, arts, humanités (supports 256 disciplines) Record depth Citation indexing, author, topic title, subject keywords, abstract, periodical title, author's address, publication year Format coverage Full text articles, reviews, editorials, chronologies, abstracts, proceedings (journals and book-based ), technical papers

11. JOURNAL SELECTION PROCESS Basic journal publishing standard Editorial content International diversity Citation Analysis Timeliness Peer-view Eng . Lang Bib Editorial Convention

12. BASIC SEARCHING

13. AUTHOR SEARCHING  Enter author’s last name and initials Click “Add Author Name Variant” to include alternate names the author may have published under Click “Select Research Domain” Select field(s) that apply to author’s work Click “Select Organization Select author’s organization(s), including current and past associations Click “Finish Search”

14. CITED REFRENCE SEARCHING 3.Compare the entries with the complete citation to locate the variant citations 1.  2. 4.Printing, emailing and saving options

15. ADVANCED SEARCHING

16. SEARCH HISTORY SAVING SEARCH HISTORIES From the Search History or Advanced Search page, click Save History to save your search history. If you choose to create an alert, note that only results matching the final query will be sent to your e-mail address.

17. RESEARCHER ID Online registry for creating a unique researcher ID number Build a publication list identifying your work Make your profile public or private – Public profiles can be searched and viewed by others  Every member of Researcher ID has a Lab page . Availability of features is dependent on a researcher's privacy settings and on whether their publication list contains records added from Web of Science

18. ACESS REQUIREMENTS The use is charged – generally libraries grant access. Application has to be done via ZIH-Login or University Profile (VPN Client) Homepage of university library :via Search ‚Web of Science‘ or direct  HEC Subscribed Fee based subscription Annually for 3 years

19. BASIC INFORMATION Weekly update Citations cited articles in an article cited authors in an article how often authors are cited, and from whom. Even for external articles. Related Records Detection of similar articles Citation Report h-Index

20. PROBLEMS OF WOS Focus on US-American Journals Criteria for subscribed selection of Journals are not clarified satisfying