Darya Bukhtoyarova

NU Library Reference

September 2013

Stay Current, Know Your Impact

By the end of today’s workshop, you will be able to:

Find an impact factor of a particular journal

Find top journals with impact factors in your discipline

Find the most recent articles published on your research topic

Find the top cited articles for your research topic

Set up an email alert to stay updated on new articles published on your research topic

Find your (or other researchers’) h-index

Set up an email alert to know when your articles get cited

What is impact factor of a journal?An indicator reflecting the research impact of a

particular journal based on the average number of citations to articles published in this journal in the last two years

Is calculated annually, last edition in 2012Devised by Eugene Garfield, the founder of

the Institute for Scientific Information, in 1960Varies across disciplinesExample for Nature Methods:

What is h-index?Measures the productivity and impact of a scientist

(sometimes, a group of scientists, a department, a university)

Devised by Jorge Hirsch, a physicist at UCSD, in 2005

Based on the number of published papers and the number of citations that they have received

H-index of 3 means that at least 3 of the scientist’s papers have been cited at least 3 times each

Varies across disciplines

JCR (Journal Citation Reports)A database of information about academic journals,

most importantly impact factors; updated annuallyWeb of Science

A bibliographic and bibliometric database that indexes over 12,000 journals and 148,000 conference proceedings

You can find this information at Web of Knowledge

Accessing Web of Knowledge

On campus, go to http://apps.webofknowledge.com

Off campus, go to NU Library website http://library.nu.edu.kz/ and log in.Then: Resources -> Databases -> Current

SubscriptionBibliographic Databases -> Web of Science

Working with JCRFinding impact factor of journals:

NatureAnthropology and Archeology of Eurasia

Finding top journals for your discipline or research topicChemistryMagnetic resonances in chemistry

Finding Impact Factor for Nature

Finding top journals in chemistry

List of top-20 journals in chemistry

Please create your account at Web of Knowledge

Go to Sign in -> Register

Working with Web of ScienceResearch topic: Impact of class size on

students’ successFind the latest articles on the topicFind the top cited articles on the topicCreate an alert to stay updated on this topic

Construct your search well

Use “quotation marks” to search for a set phrase (words will be searched together)

Use several synonyms and separate them by ORSelect appropriate field: topic, author, organization, etc.

Most recent results

Most cited results

Create an alert to know what’s being published on this topic

Working with Web of Science, contd.Author: Laurie Leshin, Dean of the School of

Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, multidisciplinary research in science, most recently working with Curiosity Mars RoverFind publications by this author if Web of

ScienceFind Leshin’s h-indexSet citation alert for one of her articles

Search by author

Getting the name rightSearch with last name and initial(s), not the

full nameGrotzingerJP vs Grotzinger John

For names not originally in the Roman alphabet: check the spelling!Yelikov OR ElibekovKamzebayeva OR KamzebaevaKhalelov OR Halelov

When publishing, try to use the same spelling for all your publications

Narrow down the results by author’s initials, country, institution affiliation

Now you can look up the author’s h-index!

Set up citation alertsFor your articles to know when you get

citedFor articles that are important for your

research

Further workshops to attendRefWorks. Keep your research materials

organized, create reference lists and in-text citations in a matter of seconds, in any style.Every other Thursday, 4-5 pm

Searching library e-resources. Learn about one search features, get updated on the new databases in your subject area.Every other Wednesday, 4-5 pm

Managing your research profiles (ORCID, Researcher ID and Google Scholar). Upcoming.

Contact us

EMAIL: REFERENCE@NU.EDU.KZ

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