Assignment Unit IV Answers

1. How to download Web of Science data for Bibliometric Research?

Bibliometric research is the quantitative study of publications and publishing patterns.
Web of Science is a platform consisting of several kinds of literature search databases
designed to support scientific and scholarly research. Following are the steps required to
download Web of Science data for bibliometric research:
➢ The first step is to find the web of science database in the list of your university
databases (your university must have the right to access) or direct access to the
database web of Science website https://www.webofknowledge.com.
➢ Once you access to the Web of Science, find the web of science database and click
on the Web of ScienceTM Core Collection.
➢ In the Web of Science, there are different ways to customize the results based on the
basic search, author search, structure search or cited reference search. It is also
required to mention the document type and the timespan of your search.
➢ Then click on the “Search” button, and the result will show up on the following
page.
➢ To download the data, click on “Save to EndNote online”, where you have to choose
the format of the data to be saved.
➢ Then choose the number of records (maximum 500 records at a time can be saved)
to download and file format (preferred ‘plain text’).
➢ Finally click on the “Send” button to download the data.
Source: www.linkedin.com
2. How to download Scopus data for Bibliometric Research?
Scopus is Elsevier’s abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, scientific
journals, books and conference proceedings. The steps required in downloading Scopus data
for bibliometric research are:
➢ The first step is to find the Scopus database in the list of your university databases
(your university must have the right to access) or direct access to the Scopus
website: http://www.scopus.com.
➢ Search the data by document, author or affiliations. You can also limit the search by
data range, document type or access type.
➢ Select the documents you want to download by clicking the checkboxes.
➢ Finally click on ‘Download’ to save the pdf versions of the document. There is also a
way to export the results to a file or a reference management tool by clicking on
‘export’.

3. Highlight the difference between h-index and g-index.

The h-index was proposed by Jorge E. Hirsch in 2005 as an author-level metric that attempts
to measure both the productivity and citation impact of the publications of a scientist or
scholar. The h-index is based on the set of the scientist's most cited papers and the number
of citations that they have received in other publications.
The g-index is introduced by Leo Egghe in 2006 as an improvement of the h-index by
giving more weight to highly-cited articles. The g-index is calculated based on the
distribution of citations received by a given researcher's publications.
 In other words, h-index is the number of papers of a certain “quality” (citations) threshold, a
threshold that rises as h-index rises; g-index allows citations from higher-cited papers to be
used to strengthen lower-cited papers in meeting this threshold. This means that someone’s
g-index will always be equal to or greater than the h-index.
Source: www.researchgate.net

4. How is CiteScore measured?

CiteScore is a suite of indicators calculated from data in Scopus, the world’s leading
abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. It is free to use, comprehensive,
transparent and simple way of measuring the citation impact of serial titles such as journals. It
is measured by the number of citations received by a journal in one year to documents
published in the three previous years, divided by the number of documents indexed in
Scopus published in those same three years.
CiteScore is calculated for the current year on a monthly basis until it is fixed as a
permanent value in May the following year, permitting a real-time view on how the metric
builds as citations accrue. Once fixed, the other CiteScore metrics are also computed and
contextualize this score with rankings and other indicators to allow comparison.
Source: Measuring a journals impact- Elsevier