Utilizing Scopus and Web of

Science for Social

ScienceDrResearch
RS Rai
M.Sc. (Statistics), M.I.B., Ph.D.
(Statistics) Professor - Decision
Sciences
Amity Business School
Director - Research, Planning &
Statistical Services Amity University
Uttar Pradesh
Sector 125, Noida 201313, UP, INDIA
E: [email protected],
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• What are Web of Science and • Author Metrices
Scopus? • h-index
• Which is better? • i10 index
• How to access Scopus and • Author Disambiguation
Web • Utilizing Kopernio
of Science at AUUP
• Using Mendeley for
• Bibliometrics or Measuring
Referencing
Research Impact
• Journal Metrics (Web of
Science Core Collection)
• Journal Metrics (Scopus)
What are Web of Science and
Scopus? Web of
Science

Scopu
s
What are Web of Science and
Scopus?
Both these resources are ‘abstract and citation’ databases – this means they have
lots of information about journal articles and other publications.

Many institutions have a subscription to both databases, and additionally they

have access to many (but not all) of the full text articles they cover in print
and/or online form.

They are useful for finding articles, and for tracking citations and other metrics.
 Scopus is a large interdisciplinary database
from Elsevier, with particular strengths in

What are science and technology. The bibliometric &

citation features use the whole of the
Scopus database.
Web of
Science
Web of Science (previously known as Web
and of Knowledge) is a collection of
databases maintained by now Clarivate
Scopus? Analytics.
 Which is
better?

IF YOU ARE SEARCHING FOR YOU MAY FIND ONE OF THEM TRY YOUR SEARCH IN BOTH BOTH WEB OF SCIENCE
JOURNAL ARTICLES BOTH WILL MORE USEFUL DEPENDING ON AND SEE!
DO A SIMILAR JOB, AND BOTH YOUR DISCIPLINE, FOR EXAMPLE CORE COLLECTION AND
ALLOW ALERTS, EXPORTING TO SCOPUS FOR HEALTH-RELATED SCOPUS ARE USED FOR
ENDNOTE ETC. TOPICS OR THE WEB OF SCIENCE MEASURING
‘ALL DATABASES’ SEARCH FOR
PHYSICS. RESEARCH IMPACT.
Which is
better?

Again, both Web of Science Core Collection and Scopus are used for measuring research impact.

The Web of Science Core Collection is probably the single most authoritative source.

Scopus is a very useful alternative for measuring the citation impact of articles, journals and
authors.
Scopus has a larger dataset, so more articles, journals and conference papers will have metrics.
Metrics will be different numbers (e.g. h-indexes tend to be higher) – there is the usual need to
compare ‘like with like’.
How to access
Web of Science
and Scopus

www.webofknowedge.com

www.scopus.com
Bibliometrics or
Measuring Research
Impact
• The Web of Science Core Collection is probably the
single most authoritative source.
• Scopus is a very useful alternative for measuring
the
citation impact of articles, journals and authors.
• Scopus has a larger dataset, so more articles,
journals and conference papers will have metrics.
Metrics will be different numbers (e.g. h-indexes
tend to be higher) – there is the usual need to
compare ‘like with like’.
 Bibliometrics – an
introduction

Bibliometrics can provide a quick and There are well known issues which can Bibliometrics can be divided into two
easy ranking of research impact. make it a blunt tool if used in isolation. distinct areas:
“15% of articles, account for 50% of Measures concerned with the importance of
the citations, and the most cited 50% journals
of the papers account for 90% of the Measures concerned with authors
citations”
No bibliometric measure takes
account
of retractions and negative citations.
All bibliometric measures are as good
as the citation databases they use, and
no citation database is complete or
100% accurate.
It is not possible to compare between
disciplines
Journal Metrics (Web of Science Core
Collection)

Impact Factor Eigenfactor Normalized Eigenfactor Score Article influence Score

The impact factor measures the A journal’s Eigenfactor is a It is the same as Eigenfactor It is a measure of average
average number of citations per measure of the journal’s total score of but made easier to read influence of each of its
paper in a journal. importance to the scientific by being scaled so the average articles over the first five
The JCR provides access to community. journal has a score of 1.
years after publication.
bibliometrics about journals If a journal’s Eigenfactor score is A journal with a normalized
indexed in Web of Science, 1.0, it has 1% of the total Eigenfactor score of 3 has three
including Impact Factors and influence of all indexed times the total influence of the
Eigenfactor metrics. publications. average journal in JCR.
Journal Metrics
(Scopus)
SCImago Journal and Country Rank (SJR)

• This is the ‘average prestige per paper’ of a journal. It is comparable to the Article Influence Score

Source Normalized Impact Per Paper (SNIP)

• This indicator measures the average citation impact of the publications of a journal. This is
normalized in order to correct for differences in citation practices between scientific fields.

Impact Per Publication (IPP)

• This is calculated as the number of citations given in the present year to publications in the past
three years divided by the total number of publications in the past three years. This is
comparable to impact factor.
Author
Metrices
• h-index
• A scholar with an index of h
has published h papers each
of which has been cited in
other papers at least h times

Jorge Eduardo Hirsch (born 1953) is

an Argentine American professor of
physics at the University of
California, San Diego
h-
index
Pros:

• easy to understand and calculate

• the metric is intended to avoid disproportionate effects of participation in a single publication of
major influence (the g- index and e-index take a different approach)

Cons:

• Does not account for self-citation which can artificially inflate the h-index
• does not account for different disciplinary citation patterns
• does not take into account the author number, ignoring both the total number of authors and
author position.
• does not take into account eh age of a paper, i.e. if an author stops publishing their h-index never
drops but can rise, thus the h-index is a measure of lifetime achievement rather than current
impact.
 • i10 index
• This is number of publications with at least 10 citations
Author • Created by Google Scholar and used in Google's My Citations feature.
Metrices
i10-
index

Advantages of i10-Index Disadvantages of i10-Index

Very simple and straightforward to calculate Used only in Google Scholar
My Citations in Google Scholar is free and easy to
use
Author
Disambiguation
• As a researcher and scholar in your field, it is important to distinguish your body
of research and scholarly works from other authors, for example to demonstrate
impact to funding bodies or to facilitate collaborations with other researchers.
• This can be challenging particularly for authors with common surnames and with
the various ways of denoting a person's name.
• There are several tools available to help you disambiguate yourself from other
researchers and to compile and showcase your own work for the scholarly
community at large.
• ORCID
• ResearcherID
ORCI
DThe Open Researcher Community ID is an increasingly recognized
•
persistent digital identifier.
• The unique number assigned to you will allow publishers and
aggregators of scholarly literature to distinguish you from researchers
with similar names. In fact, ORCID numbers are increasingly required
by publishers and funders when you submit a manuscript for
publication or apply for grant funding.
• This is a powerful tool in author disambiguation and it takes just a few
minutes to sign up.
ORCI
D
Researche
rID
• The Web of Knowledge features ResearcherID, a service with which
you can create and manage your scholarly profile, generate citation
metrics and connect with other scholars. ResearcherID, in tandem
with ORCID, assigns a unique ID to each author and allows authors to
identify papers that they contributed to.
Researche
rID
ResearcherID and ORCID
Integration
Utilizing
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What is
Kopernio
What is
Kopernio…
• Kopernio is a London-based startup, established in 2017, by the
founders of Mendeley and Newsflo, Jan Reichelt and Ben Kaube.
• Publisher-neutral platform for research workflow and analysis for
scientific researchers, publishers and institutions worldwide.
• Legally provide one-click access to millions of journal articles and
academic research papers across the globe.
• Dramatically improving and facilitating access to scientific
knowledge.
• Addresses the issue of circuitous, time-consuming and manual routes
that researchers take to access the journal articles they need, even
when their institutions and organisations have legitimate subscription
What is
Kopernio…
• Kopernio uses artificial intelligence to enable users to seamlessly
access journal articles with just one-click, saving researchers time and
frustration when accessing their institutional subscriptions.
• Kopernio automatically detects what individual or institutional
subscriptions a user already possesses and facilitates instant access to
the chosen article.
• It will also suggest free, alternative legal versions of the content that
might already exist on openly available platforms if a user lacks the
required subscriptions to access content behind a paywall.
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