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Web of Science 7.0 via the Web of Knowledge 3.0
PlatformThe next generation in Smart Discovery
from Thomson Scientific
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The Web of Science and Citation Indexing
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. Garfields 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.

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Evolution of the citation index and research
evaluation using citations

• 1960s -gt Science Citation Index Print
• 1970s -gt SciSearch, SocialSciSearch
• 1980s -gt CD-ROM version, AHCI
• Late 1990s -gt Web of Science

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Web of Science
Diversity
Quality

• Diversity Truly Multidisciplinary
• All fields of research are included in over 200
  categories
• 8,600 journals total
• Over 6,100 titles in the hard sciences alone
  (SCIe)
• Social sciences 1790 titles
• Arts humanities 1125 titles

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Web of Science
Diversity
Quality

• Quality Evaluated, Selected Content
• Every Web of Science journal is individually
  selected for influence within its respective
  discipline.
• Our selection criteria is unbiased, impartial,
  time-tested.
• We are Publisher-Neutral, evaluating research
  Commercial, Society, Open Access publications,
  etc.

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A closer look Journal Selection Process

• Why be selective?
• Economically impractical to cover everything
• Analysis of citation data has shown that a core
  of 2,000 journals account for about 85 of all
  that is published and 95 of what is cited.
• However this core is not static, and additional
  journals must be included. Thomson Scientific
  covers this expanded core of journals and
  enhances it with coverage of hot disciplines that
  may become main-stream in the future. Additional
  journals are indexed to provide a broad and even
  distribution of data across all disciplines and
  geographic regions.

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A closer look Journal Selection Process

• Thomson Scientifics editorial staff review
  around 2,000 new journals annually. 10-12 of
  these journals are added to the collection.
  Existing database constantly monitored to ensure
  that journals are maintaining high standards
• Many factors, are taken into account
• Basic publishing standards
• Timeliness
• Follows publishing conventions
• English language bibliographic information
• Peer Review
• Editorial content
• Will it enrich the database?
• Is it a hot topic?
• International diversity of authorship
• Citation analysis
• Impact Factor, Immediacy index
• How the journal compares to other journals in its
  field
• Citation analysis of editorial board

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The Web of Science and Citation Indexing
The Impact Factor

• The Impact Factor can be considered to represent
  how many times an average article was cited in
  the previous 2 years
• How was the 2003 Impact Factor of Journal-X
  calculated?
• A Total number of times all journals published
  in 2003 cited articles published in Journal-X in
  2001-2002
• B Number of articles published by Journal-X in
  2001-2002
• Impact Factor A/B
• Considered by many to be the de-facto method to
  evaluate journals, but must be used with care as
  journal citation data should be used in context
  and other factors taken into consideration.
• Another tool for journal evaluation is the
  Immediacy Index which represents how many times
  the average article is cited within its year of
  publication. The Immediacy Index can provide
  valuable insight to just how cutting edge a
  journal is

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Web of Science
Unique Data
Diversity
Quality

• Data unique capabilities
• Capture of Author Cited References over 55 years
  provides for methods of discovery that are simply
  not possible elsewhere.
• Navigate Cited References and Times Cited
  backward and forward in time across decades of
  research.
• Find articles that cannot be found through
  traditional free-text searching techniques

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Citation Navigation
2004
2003
From just a single record within the Web of
Science, expand your search by simply following
the links designed to drive discovery.
2003
Times Cited
2004
Cited References
Related Records
2001
2000
1998
2004
2002
? Citing ?
1993
1999
moving Backward in time via Cited References,
Forward in time via Times Cited,
and expand your search with Related
Records.
1994
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Citation Index - The Value Add

• The language of science is always changing,
  concepts and terminology continue to evolve
• Free-text searching alone will never maximize
  retrieval of critical information

For Example, the early research connecting HIV to
AIDS actually referred to the virus using two
different terms. Neither term was HIV
LAV(in Europe) HTLV-III (in USA)
Human Immunodeficiency virus HIV(the world)
1983
1987
Present
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Web of Science
Unique Data
Diversity
Quality
Depth

• Depth!
• Coverage back to 1945 in the Sciences, to 1956 in
  the Social Sciences, to 1975 in Arts Humanities
• 1900-1944 Back files in Development!
• Current information is of course critical.
  However, access to an archive of influential
  research is absolutely important.
• Impact of previous findings, even decades old,
  may be very significant. One must retain the
  resources necessary to make these assessments.

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Navigate through citations to find all the key
steps for any discovery.
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Five or ten years of backfiles only begins to tap
the wealth of information accessible through
General and Cited Reference search and navigation.
Web of Science Backfiles
Clearly researchers are still heavily citing
papers from more than 20, 30, 40 years ago and
even longer.
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Web of Science
Over 200 disciplines covered in over 8,600
journals
Editorial selection of core high
impact journals
Over 55 years of Author Citation information
Coverage back to 1945 in the hard sciences
Unique Data
Diversity
Quality
Depth
Unmatched Elsewhere No other resource offers the
level of selectivity and editorial quality found
within Web of Science journal content
Unavailable Elsewhere Access to such a diverse,
deep, influential collection with navigable cited
reference links across 55 years
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Web of Science 7.0 Home Page Redesign
Easy to use and intuitive interface, can use with
little or no instruction
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Web of Science 7.0
New - Term Lists provide user-friendly
assistance in defining and adding terms to the
search. New General Search Group Author
field.
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Cited Reference Search To be truly comprehensive
in your search efforts, the Cited Reference
Search is essential in that it can retrieve
information often missed through use of Key-words
alone.
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Advanced Search option is available for those
comfortable with command line style search
queries.
New fields
Search History presents a simple Combine Sets
option for fine-tuning results.
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Search Results
Search over 34 million records since 1945.
Easily navigate Thousands of Records, Deep into
the Web of Science back file.
Enhanced Mark features.
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New -- Results Analysis Tool
Recognize trends and access subsets by
AuthorDocument TypeInstitutionLanguagePublic
ation YearsSource TitlesJournal
CategoriesRefine results like never before.
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Complete bibliographic information in an easy to
read format.
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Integration Navigation, key advantages of the
Web of Knowledge Platform.
Link to the publishers full-text, other external
resources
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Integration Navigation, key advantages of the
Web of Knowledge Platform.
Expand your search to other resources available
within the ISI Web of Knowledge
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Navigate through citations. Follow the research
pathways to get a comprehensive history of a
breakthrough. Use related records to expand
your search.
Current Contents Connect CC Connect
Table-of-Contents
BIOSIS Previews Journal Citation
Reports
Go to Current Contents Connect
Go to BIOSIS Previews
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For Related Records Web of Science 7.0 presents
the number of references shared by related papers
a proven method for gauging relevance.
Current Contents Connect CC Connect
Table-of-Contents
BIOSIS Previews Journal Citation
Reports
Go to Current Contents Connect
Go to BIOSIS Previews
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New - Citation Alert!The Web of Science
includes a vast number of influential papers.
Take advantage of the depth of this resource.
Should a record seem especially relevant, Web of
Science 7.0 allows the user to quickly and Easily
create a Citation Alert receive an automated
e-mail alert every time this article is cited.
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At the end of the search session, there are a
number of options presented for handling of
Marked Records.
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Export directly to Bibliographic Management Tools
such as EndNote, Reference Manager and Procite
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• ISI Proceedings
• Multidisciplinary, international coverage
• 70 unique (monographic sources not in Web of
  Science)
• Derwent Innovations Index
• Patents are becoming an integral part of the
  scientific communication process, especially in
  biotechnology, genetic engineering, drug
  development, and nanotechnology
• Patents are important across the institution
  research departments, administration, as well as
  technology transfer groups

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Current Contents Connect High quality content,
powerful and flexible searching functions,
browsing of Tables of Contents and
Alerting Compliments other Web of Knowledge
resources, to provide the ideal current awareness
tool.
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eFirst articles contain bibliographic information
for articles before their official inclusion in
the latest issue of the Journal. Typically, these
articles appear in the "advance publication"
sections of electronic journals. Complete
articles, searchable, linkable and full text is
available 1000 journals available now
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Personalize your Web of Knowledge home page by
adding links to your favorite journals
With a single click, you can access the Table of
Contents of the latest issue!
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Alerting is also available. Have the latest Table
of Contents e-mailed to you automatically!
Full Text Access is just two clicks away The
most important research all customized on ones
personalized home page.
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Find pre-selected relevant web sites, view brief
abstracts of the web sites content. Quickly and
easily find highly relevant web sites.
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Your original query is run against the eSearchSM
database of full-text web documents. Because the
web-sites are selected using our stringent
selection criteria, the content is trustworthy
and search results have far higher relevance than
traditional web search engines.
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Journal Citation Reports 3.0 Determine relative
influence of journals within their subject
categories Totally unique tool to discover
relationships between journals through citation
patterns
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Journal Citation Reports 3.0
Explore relationships with other journals through
Cited and Citing data Now displayed
graphically, easy to differentiate self citations
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Journal Citation Reports 3.0
Additional links help put data in context
Link to the Journal Summary List for this JCR
Journal Category
Link to the Scope Note for a description of the
JCR Journal
Category
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HOSTED CONTENT via ISI Web of Knowledge Carefully
selected premier databases Easy to use and
intuitive interface All the power and
functionality of ISI Web of Knowledge LinkingCit
ation sharingCrossSearchingAlertingPersonalizat
ion
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Hosted Content Web of Knowledgesm Partners
Agriculture Applied Life
Sciences Crop Protection Forestry
Veterinary Science Human Nutrition
Natural Resource Mgmt Horticulture
and more
Life Sciences Biology Ecology Biochemistry
Zoology Environment Biomedicine
Pharmacology Biotechnology and more
Biotechnology Food safety Food science
Functional novel foods Additives Nutrition
Packaging and more
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Hosted Content Web of Knowledgesm Partners
Psychology Psychiatry Experimental and Applied
research in - Social Science
Medicine Education Law
Business and
more
Physics Electrical Engineering Computer
Science Materials Science Control
Engineering Geophysics Communications
Artificial Intelligence and more
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The Web of Knowledge Archive
Journals Serials
Conference Proceedings
Dissertations
Technical Reports
Patents
Books
1969
1969
1963
1945
1880
1990
1973
1969
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The Web of Knowledge Archive
Journal Coverage
Physics Electr Eng Computing
Food Science and Technology
Science Social Science Arts
Humanities
Agriculture and Applied Life Sciences
Life Sciences
14,075
14,590
8,600
9,300
12,342
To Date Combined Web of
Knowledge resources provide access to over 16,000
journals and serials.
Psychology and Psychiatry
16,000
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the ISI Web of KNOWLEDGE
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Web of Science 7.0 via the Web of Knowledge 3.0
PlatformThe next generation in Smart Discovery
from Thomson Scientific
Thank You
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Question Answers

• Q. There are many different journal lists which
  is the right one to use?
• The ISI Master List, which is sometimes known
  as the Philadelphia List, is the list of all
  the journals that are indexed by Thomson
  Scientific in all products. There are some 8,900
  journals in the ISI Master List, 300 or so more
  than the combined source lists of the 3 citation
  indices that make up the Web of Science. The
  Science Citation Index come in two versions, SCI
  (used for print and CD) is around 3,400 journals
  and SCI expanded used for SciSearch and Web of
  Science is 6,100 journals.
• As outlined earlier, the inclusion of a journal
  in the list does not necessarily mean it is a the
  best journal in its field and other factors
  should be considered.
• See the following URL for more information
• http//www.isinet.com/essays/

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Question Answers

• Q. How do I apply to have a Journal indexed by
  Thomson Scientific
• A. Thomson Scientific needs at least three
  consecutive current issues to complete an
  evaluation. For details of the application
  procedure see the following URL
• http//www.isinet.com/selection/
• Thomson Scientific does monitor the publishing
  and research communities for new journals and
  journals that have significantly improved in
  recent times, therefore journals may be
  proactively selected for inclusion.