Directions to help perform an author cited reference search.

1. Cited Reference Search
in
Web of Science
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The Web of Science Core Collection is the foundation of the
Web of Science and continues to be the premier resource for
research discovery. It is still comprised of 100 years of
valuable research, and is fully indexed and cross searchable.
The rigorous standards employed to evaluate, select and
index this content never change.

2. Disambiguation….
Valid data = Valid metrics
Accurate attribution of research products is the
most important first step in a citation analyses.
• Scholarly authors are assigned many identifiers
such as Scopus Author ID, Web of Science
Researcher ID, institutional ID’s
• Scholars should register for an ORCID - Open
Researcher Identifier – this ID is supported by
many publishers & platforms.
• Scholars can claim and make public their Google
Scholar profile
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3. Choose ‘Cited Reference Search’
Enter author information in
correct format (I should have
also entered Parks, S* but
this set of publications is too
large to be useful.
Published year(s) considered in
citation analysis (optional)

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Select only those articles
attributable to author – in this
case, 26/61 citations and
citation variants are this
author’s work.

6. After selecting all citations & variants,
‘Finish Search’
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7. Can Analyze Results or
Create Citation Reports
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Citation Reports

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Changed time frame to
calculate citations received
between 2009-2013

10. What do these numbers mean??
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141 articles cited S.E.
Parks’ works that were
indexed in the Web of
Science. These citations
were received from 2009-
2013.
Sum of Times Cited
This field displays the total number of citations
(cited references) to all of the items found in
the results set. In this case, this is the number
of citations that the articles citing Parks’ work
have received.
Note: This is not Parks’ h-index, this is
the h-index to the publications that cite
her work. Still waiting to hear from
Thomson Reuters with a request for help
performing an author citation analysis
(5/16/14).

11. Various ways to Analyze Results

12. Questions??
• Linda Galloway, galloway@syr.edu
• Web of Science tutorials:
http://wokinfo.com/training_support/training/web-
of-science/#recordedtraining
Linda Galloway Syracuse University Library May 2014