Abstracting, Indexing, and Citation Tracking
A note on remote access
Please note, some of the resources listed below are available only through our York University institutional subscription. If you are having difficulty accessing these resources, use an on-campus computer, or log in through York’s proxy service.
http://www.library.yorku.ca/ccm/Home/eResources/RemoteAccess.htm
Abstracting and Indexing Services
The place to check for this is Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory, I have included a link to the Advanced Search page below. Simply type in the name of your journal under “title” and search.
http://www.ulrichsweb.com/ulrichsweb/Search/advancedSearch.asp?navPage=1&
Click on the journal of interest in the search results list and click on the red tab titled “Abstracting, Indexing and Article Access.”
Do not trust this to be a complete list, consult an administrative person who works for the journal and cross reference the Ulrich’s list with their administrative record of abstracting and indexing services.
CITATION TRACKING – INTRODUCTION
For an excellent introduction to the use of citation data by academics, administrators, historians and others, see the presentation slides below. The slides provide an overview of key sources of citation data including free web tools (e.g. Google Scholar, Harzing’s Publish or Perish) and library subscription databases (e.g. Scopus, Web of Science). The limitations of using citation data and the scope for abuse are also discussed.
http://www.library.yorku.ca/binaries/BG/RF/citationdatauseandabuse.ppt
Presentation slides compiled by Sophie Bury and Ilo-Katryn Maimets
The link below leads to a chart that compares citation tracking services provided by Scopus, ISI Web of Science and Google Scholar (Publish or Perish).
http://www.library.yorku.ca/binaries/BG/RF/comparativechart.doc
Chart compiled by Sophie Bury and Ilo-Katryn Maimets
Citation Tracking – Scopus
Go to www.library.yorku.ca, type “scopus” into the search box, ensuring that the radio button for eresources is enabled. Enter the Scopus portal.
It is important to note that this resource may not have collected statistics for the journal that you are looking for. Click the “sources” button first and do a journal title search to see if your journal is included in these analytics. If so, then proceed to click the analytics button and search to view statistics for your journal.
Citation Tracking – ISI Web of Knowledge (Web of Science)
Go to http://www.library.yorku.ca, type “web of science” into the search box, ensuring that the radio button for eresources is enabled. Enter the Web of Science portal.
Click on the “cited reference search” link under the “Web of Science” tab. Consult the “journal abbreviation list” to see if statistics are collected for your journal by this platform. If so, type your journal abbreviation into the “cited work” search box to view statistics.
Here are some helpful notes on using Web of Science for citation tracking:
http://www.library.yorku.ca/ccm/Home/ResearchAndInstruction/webofscience.en?
Citation Tracking – Harzing Publish or Perish
Social Science and Humanities journals are often not adequately represented in citation tracking databases. The Publish or Perish program is often the best source for statistics for these journals.
Publish or Perish is a software program that retrieves and analyzes academic citations. It uses Google Scholar to obtain the raw citations, then analyzes these and presents the following statistics:
• Total number of papers
• Total number of citations
• Average number of citations per paper
• Average number of citations per author
• Average number of papers per author
• Average number of citations per year
• Hirsch’s h-index and related parameters
• Egghe’s g-index
• The contemporary h-index
• The age-weighted citation rate
• Two variations of individual h-indices
• An analysis of the number of authors per paper.
You will need to go to the following URL and download the program to your local computer: http://www.harzing.com/resources.htm#/pop.htm
Further Reading
Hirsch’s h-index
http://www.wired.com/culture/geekipedia/magazine/17-06/mf_impactfactor?currentPage=all
