TechnoScholar: Impact Factor

TechnoScholar Guide

Objectives:

1. How to assess journal impact factor for publication submissions (Web of Knowledge)
   
2. How to determine who is citing your work & how many times it is cited (Primarily:Web of Knowledge)
   
3. How to identify other scholars in your field of study to create partnerships (Web of Knowledge, ISI Highly Cited)

• Links to these sites, as well as many others are available on the Subject Guide. Please feel free to let us know if there are any sites we should add!
  

Scholarly Impact Subject Guide: The question to keep in mind is how does your discipline define Scholarly Impact?

• In the Sciences and Social Sciences people are generally referring to the Journal Impact factor from the Web of Knowledge

Web of Knowledge
click on 'Additional Resources'






Journal Citation Reports
ISI defines this as "Journal performance metrics offer a systematic, objective means to critically evaluate the world's leading journals

• Delivers quantifiable statistical information based on citation data
• Helps determine a publication’s impact and influence in the global research community
• Includes journal and category data"

Journal Impact Factor = Cites to recent articles/ Number of recent articles
Journal Immediacy Index =Cites to current articles/ Number of current articles

Journal Cited Half-Life: The cited half-life for the journal is the median age of its articles cited in the current JCR year. Half of the citations to the journal are to articles published within the cited half-life.

Cited Journal Graph: This graph shows the distribution by cited year of citations to articles published in the journal

Journal Citing Half-Life: The citing half-life for the journal is the median age of the articles the journal cited in the current JCR year. Half of the citations in the journal are to articles published within the citing half-life.

Citing Journal Graph: This graph shows the distribution by cited year of citations from current-year articles in the journal

Journal Citation Reports Source Data: The Source Data Table shows the number of citable items in the the JCR year. Citable items are further divided into articles (i.e., research articles) and reviews.

These definitions are all taken from ISI Web of Knowledge database.



Scholar Impact: You can search on specific scholars (or yourself) in ISI Web of Knowledge.

Type in a scholars' name - in this example, it is Gardner,H* (education)



Notice, the intial sort is by 'most recent' not by 'most cited.' Additionaly, there are some false hits, as there are multiple scholars named Gardner. You will have to refine by field to find the information for the correct Gardner.


Here we have used the refining option to find a Gardner who has published in the field of Psychology.


Here we can see further information on this article, and how many times it has been cited.




OR You can click on Web of Science, and then you can do a Cited Reference Search. This allows you to find the articles that cite a person's work . There is also an 'Author Search' option.








The Author Search option can be very useful when there are multiple scholars with similar names. This option allows you to narrow by name, by specialization and by institution.

ISI Highly Cited

This blog is so BOOK!

The best thing about book=cool, is that it comes out of texting laziness!!!

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Web 10.0!!

..and I was just getting used to web 2.0!


Click To Play

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Thoughts:

1. One part that is interesting is where he is talking about how if you are not part of web 10.0/database web/semantic web, your information won't matter. It will not be enough to produce information, that information MUST be accessible and situated in a broader context. I think this is very interesting in relation to the current discussions in academia around scholarly communication and open access. What happens if your research is really good, but someone else's research is more readily accessible? Is academic research created to monetized or to be accessible? (Probably the answer is 'Both' but which consideration should be prioritized?)

2. Although he does not really address how DRM/intellectual property/ licenses will shape web 10.0. For example, when he talks about how the information in websites will become more transparent (it will have to be, to really be a part of the semantic web he is talking about) that assumes that the airlines (in his example) will allow it.

Right now, it seems like airlines are trying to make their information as opaque as possible. When prices for flights were more transparent, airlines had to keep their prices somewhat competitive with each other. Now, however, they seem to have embraced opaqueness in pricing as a business model- you may be able to see their official price on their website but not until you are far into he purchase do you know how much you have to pay- there are fees for each bag you check for blankets, for water, for everything.

(Tangent: opaqueness as an ethos seems to be embraced by business that are functionally monopolies, or business that are in trouble, like the airline or music industry. Monopolies don't have to worry about what people want, and business that are in trouble in a web 10.0 world (and by trouble I mean that they can't figure out how to effectively market to/get money from customers, not that customers don't want certain services))

This ties back to the issue of scholarly communication. It would certainly help users in their research if they could see (in the semantic web) how a study done in Britain in 1947 relates to a current study done in Japan in 2008, but if the content of those two studies is owned by different publishers, it will be up to the researcher to ferret out those connections, whereas in web 10.0, those connections would be made clear by the semantic web. (Right now, it does seem like a lot of users think Google or Google Scholar have created the idealized web 10.0/semantic web, in that they think something does not exist if they can't find it on Google. A point of view that Google may promote...)

She is too fond of books, and it has addled her brain

I thought that was the quote , but it is apparently really "She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain." -from chapter 2 of Louisa May Alcott's novel Work: A Story of Experience.

yay, internets!

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Hist 9/10/08

Hist 3300 (Philp)

Hello!

Library Website!

Subject Guide - HIST

Subjectguide- Philp

How to find STUFF...... look in Databases!

.....online in DEEP WEB (AKA Invisible Web)

WHAT is the deep web? WHERE is it?

• Google can't search it!
• It costs $$$$!
• Allows for more complicated searches!
• Signal to noise ratio is better! (stuff you want is more likely to be there then RANDOM STUFF)

....for books, look in catalogues!

• Ours!
• Everyone else (more or less)! Also, Google Books?
• ILL!

Looking for ARTICLES
Google Scholar? (Scholar Preferences in Library Links)
BUT issues with sorting...

UTA "Find Articles" page

The Journal of Interdisciplinary History
E-Journals page ...search for journals "Powered by SFX"

Catalog Journal Search

What are DATABASES?

Pros? Cons?

Academic: JSTOR

Newspapers

How to evaluate resources

How to search... ESP game!

Advanced searching....(expand, exclude)

Call Numbers (LOC) (ex PE1112 .G578 1993 )

.....other Subject Guides

Refworks

UTA LibX or LibX. LibXAmazonExample

Also... Special Collections

[note: this entry originally posted in different blog]

HIST 9/8/08

Hist 3300 (S. Reinhardt)

Hello!

Library Website!

Subject Guide - HIST

Subject Guide- (Reinhardt)

How to find STUFF...... look in Databases!

.....online in DEEP WEB (AKA Invisible Web)

WHAT is the deep web? WHERE is it?

• Google can't search it!
• It costs $$$$!
• Allows for more complicated searches!
• Signal to noise ratio is better! (stuff you want is more likely to be there then RANDOM STUFF)

....for books, look in catalogues!

• Ours!
• Everyone else (more or less)! Also, Google Books?
• ILL!

Looking for ARTICLES
Google Scholar? (Scholar Preferences in Library Links)
BUT issues with sorting...

UTA "Find Articles" page

The Journal of Interdisciplinary History
E-Journals page ...search for journals "Powered by SFX"

Catalog Journal Search

What are DATABASES?

Pros? Cons?

Academic: JSTOR

Newspapers

How to evaluate resources

How to search... ESP game!

Advanced searching....(expand, exclude)

Call Numbers (LOC) (ex PE1112 .G578 1993 )

.....other Subject Guides

Refworks

UTA LibX or LibX. LibXAmazonExample

Also... Special Collections

[note: entry originally posted in different blog]

HIST 9/3/08

HIST 5322-001 (Fairbanks)

Hello!

Library Website!

Subject Guide - HIST

Subject Guide - Urban and Public Affairs

GovDocs Librarian

GIS Librarian

How to find STUFF

...... look in Databases!

.....online in DEEP WEB (AKA Invisible Web)

WHAT is the deep web? WHERE is it?

• Google can't search it!
• It costs $$$$!
• Allows for more complicated searches!
• Signal to noise ratio is better! (stuff you want is more likely to be there then RANDOM STUFF)

....for books, look in catalogues!

• Ours!
• Everyone else (more or less)! Also, Google Books?
• ILL!

Looking for ARTICLES
Google Scholar? (Scholar Preferences in Library Links)
BUT issues with sorting...

UTA "Find Articles" page
E-Journals page ...search for journals "Powered by SFX"

What are DATABASES?

Pros? Cons?

Academic: JSTOR

Newspapers

How to evaluate resources

How to search... ESP game!

Advanced searching....(expand, exclude)

Call Numbers (LOC) (ex PE1112 .G578 1993 )

.....other Subject Guides

Refworks

UTA LibX or LibX. LibXAmazonExample

Also... Special Collections

[note: entry originally posted in different blog]

ENG 8/21/08 presentation

[Note: This entry was posted to support an oral presentation at the English Graduate Student Orientation. If you are in the UTA English department and have any questions, please contact me]

Hello!

Library Website

Subject guide - ENG

How to find STUFF

...... look in Databases!

.....online in DEEP WEB (AKA Invisible Web)
WHAT is the deep web? WHERE is it?

• Google can't search it!
• It costs $$$$!
• Allows for more complicated searches!
• Signal to noise ratio is better! (stuff you want is more likely to be there then RANDOM STUFF)

....for books, look in catalogues!

• Ours!
• Everyone else (more or less)! Also, Google Books?
• ILL!

Looking for ARTICLES
Google Scholar? (Scholar Preferences in Library Links)
BUT issues with sorting...

UTA "Find Articles" page
E-Journals page ...search for journals "Powered by SFX"

What are DATABASES?

Pros? Cons?

JSTOR

How to search... ESP game!

Advanced searching....(expand, exclude)

Call Numbers (LOC) (ex PE1112 .G578 1993 )

.....other Subject Guides

Refworks

UTA LibX or LibX. Example!

Also... Special Collections

[note: originally posted in different blog]