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Web of Knowledge(Institute for Scientific Information)

• Web of Science top tab default

• Reference guide 11 languages

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Bibliography-buildingSearching & Citations

• Topic• Author• Cited references• Breakout (eg. by year)

• Export• Times cited

• Citation report• Search history• Alerts• Mapping citations• Scientific Web

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Phrase definition & authors

• Phrase Searching

eg. “Outright Monetary Transactions” finds this exact phrase

• Parentheses

Use parentheses to group compound statements. For example:

(Eurozone OR Euro) AND (“inflation targeting”)

• Author Name

Enter the last name first, followed by a space and up to five initials.

- Artis M* finds: Artis M, Artis JM, Artis Michael &c.

- Artis finds all authors with the last name Artis

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Connecting

• Web of Science

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Institutional Data

• Times Higher Education– 2012 World University Rankings (3 October)

• Using 'Advanced Search'• OG= Organisation

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World University RankingsTimes Higher Education

• The Learning Environment (30%)• Citations / Research Influence (30%)• Research volume, income, reputation (30%)• International outlook: people, research (7.5%)• Industry Income: innovation (2.5%)

pp.28-29, Times Higher Education rankings supplement, 6 October 2011

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Some Caveats: international coverage

• The journal selection process– "Many excellent regional journals target a local,

rather than an international, audience. Therefore, the emphasis on extensive international diversity is less than for internationally focused journals."

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Caveats…• Emphasis on articles not books

– (TR developing Book Citation Index)

• ‘Main’ articles sometimes mis-classified as ‘reviews’• Language coverage – diacritic errors in citation • 'Web of Science' does not correct/change metadata• Abstracts only since 1992• Not all series are indexed – eg. NBER

• Author names – variations• Citation because of ‘controversial’ or ‘bad science’

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Google Scholar

• http://scholar.google.com/

• eg: "social inequality"

• Link → EUI full text journals

• Advanced Scholar search

• Preferences

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Scholar Citations

• Google Scholar Citations– http://scholar.google.ca/intl/en/scholar/citations.html

• Details and corrections

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Text Analysis

• Ngram Viewer– http://books.google.com/ngrams/info

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Pros. & Cons.• Google Scholar not by 'relevance' but by

metadata

• Not limited to 'published' documents

• Google keeps algorithms, metrics and definions of 'scholarly publication' secret

• Control is less rigid: a pro or a con?

• July upgrade: 'top publications' list.

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EconLit

• EconLit – e-bibliography of economics literature,

compiled by the AEA with abstracts, indexing and chapter lists of edited works.

– 1,200,000 records (1886-2012)

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RePEc• Research Papers in Economics

– RePEc database of Economics literature and references, founded in 1993

– RePEc blog

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19 September 2012

Web of ScienceEconLit

Google Scholar