Overview

Web of Science Core collection & ISI journals

Multinational mass media and information

Operates in more than 100 countries,
Has more than 60,000 employees
Net income ~ + 2B.$

Mohamed Omri
DSR at KAU
omrimoha2002@yahoo.com & mnomri@kau.edu.sa
 Introduction
1- In general, a scientific research work begins by:
a bibliographic search
(use different Search engines)
2 - Paper ready ,
choose a journal?
(ISI WOK! )?
Institute for Scientific Information
3- Published paper,
where?
Is it cited (not self cited)?
 The Web of Knowledge
(ISI Web of Knowledge)
Provided by

It is an academic citation indexing and search service,

which is combined with web linking (Multiple databases ).
It covers:
sciences,
social sciences,
arts and humanities.
It provides bibliographic content and tools to access,
analyze, and manage research information.
 Content
The combined databases includes the following:
•23,000 academic and scientific journals
(including Web of Science journal listings ~11000)
•23,000,000 patents
•110,000 conference proceedings
•9,000 websites
•Coverage from the year 1900 to present day
(with Web of Science)
•Over 40 million source items
•Integrated and simultaneous searching across
multiple databases

Company revenue ~ + 2B.$

50000
 Web of Knowledge contains:
 Web of Science-1900+
 Conference & Proceedings Citation Index
 BIOSIS Citation Index (combines critical life sciences research with powerful citation indexing)
 Journal Citation Reports –1998
 Zoological Record –1864 (electronic index of zoological literature that also serves as the unofficial
register of scientific names in zoology)

 Derwent Innovations Index –1963 (Patent and citation searches of inventions in

chemical, electrical, electronic, and mechanical engineering)
Information Service for Physics, Electronics, and Computing
 INSPEC –1898 (Major indexing database of scientific and technical literature, published by the Institution of
Engineering and Technology (IET). Its coverage is extensive in the fields of physics, computing, control, and engineering)
Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux
 CAB Abstracts –1910 (The most comprehensive source of international research information in agriculture
and all related applied life sciences, produced by CABI Publishing)
Food Science & Technology Abstracts

 FSTA –1969 (bibliographic indexing and abstracting database covering the scientific and technological literature relating
to food, drink and nutrition)
Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online

 MEDLINE –1950 (bibliographic database of life sciences and biomedical information)

 Content & Citation

Web of Science
Journal 11000

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Choose the Search mode you need
Combine words and phrases to search across
the source records in the Web of Science.
Basic Search Overview
Select Your Search Field
 Publications accepted in KAU research programs must
appear in the Web of ScienceTM Core Collection

Search ?
Institution
1 Subject +++

(one paper or a list)

2 Author
(one or group)
1
Use the drop down to
select your listing-choice.
Citation

Full titles are indexed

Select page & print

All authors are indexed.
records
Exercise 1:
Use the basic search: “Corona Virus” as:
1- A Topic and as a title? Compare ?
2- use + Add Another Field and combine Topic
and title, Topic or title , Topic not Title
1 Citation of a specific paper

Or verify that your journal is ISI

1 Citation of a specific paper

Click on to create a
citation report
Create a Citation Report
A Citation Report

h-Index
View Citation Map
 H-Index
Measure of a Scientist’s Impact

Was suggested by Jorge Eduardo Hirsch, 2005 (Hirsch number)

(Professor of physics at the University of California, San Diego)

Measure The productivity and impact of a published work of a

scientist

It is based on the distribution of citations received by a given

researcher’s publications

J. E. Hirsch, 2005. An index to quantify an individual's scientific research output,. Proc. Of the National Academy of Sciences
of the United States of America; vol. 102 no. 46
 Calculating the H-Index

Thanks

Schematic curve of number of citations versus paper number, with papers

numbered in order of decreasing citations. The intersection of the 45° line with
the curve gives h. The total number of citations is the area under the curve
J. E. Hirsch, 2005. An index to quantify an individual's scientific research output,. Proc. Of the National Academy of Sciences
of the United States of America; vol. 102 no. 46
 The limits of the h-index
Should not be used for comparisons across specialties in the same domain
(medical, chemical, physics….)

H-index will usually increase in value for older scholars

H-index will usually increase in value for older scholars

In general, there are imperfections in the citation data; means that calculating h-
index with different tools may give different numbers

Lee J, Kraus KL, Couldwell WT, 2009. Use of the h index in neurosurgery. Clinical article. J Neurosurg. Aug;111(2):387-92

Lutz Bornmann and Hans-Dieter Daniel, 2009.The state of h index research. Is the h index the ideal way to measure
research performance? EMBO Rep. Jan; 10(1): 2–6
 Tools to find the h-Index
• Manually • Scopus • Google Scholar Citations

• Science Citation Index

• Alexander Yong, Critique of Hirsch’s Citation Index: A Combinatorial Fermi Problem,

Notices of the American Mathematical Society, vol. 61 (2014), no. 11, pp. 1040-1050
Author Citation report is more
interesting
Exercise 2:
Use the basic search: Al-Ghamdi A*
1- prepare a citation report for this author
2- What is the number of books published by him?
3-What is the number of grants that he obtained from KAU ?
4- the number of proceedings?
5-The number of papers?
ISI Journals
One category Journals
Sorted by IMPACT FACTOR
When a Journal appears in
more than one category

100(1/30+10/122)/2=5.76%
Search for a specific journal
Exercise 3: consider the following journals:
life science journal, HIST ECON IDEAS and the
journal with ISSN 0907-4449
-ISI journal?
-Ranking?