How many times have you been cited

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How many times have you been cited?

• Helena VonVille
• Updated 12/2/2005

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Access Web of Science

• From the SPH Library home page, go to online
  databases
• Click on W
• Select Web of Science

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Searching Web of Science

• Click on Cited Reference Search

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Searching Web of Science

• Enter your lastname firstname
• Include middle initial if thats how you publish
• Dont use commas
• Enter a year only if you have published quite a
  few articles

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What journals are indexed?

• If you publish extensively, you may also want to
  search by individual journal titles

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Viewing results

• Print out these results to compile your list of
  how often you have been cited
• Books/book chapters may appear, but will not be
  linked in this database

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Problems with citations

• Are there bad cites?
• Citing authors frequently give wrong pages
  numbers or volumes in their bibliographies
• Sometimes even the name is wrong!

Should be TAYLOR WC
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Other sources to consult

• Web of Science is not comprehensive
• Indexes only 8,500 journals
• Use other sources to supplement Web of Science

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Academic Search Premier

• Beginning to include number of times articles are
  cited within that database
• Still a small percentage of articles have this

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ASP (contd)

• Do a fulltext search in ASP
• Searches the bibliographies from articles
• Use quotation marks ( ) around name
• Use last name and initials

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ASP (contd)

• Items found will have aday la somewhere within
  the text

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ASP (contd)

• When looking at ASP results, only include those
  not covered by Web of Science
• Ex. Web of Science indexes Journal of Nursing
  Care Quality (1st item on list) so it has been
  counted

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Thank you!

• Questions? Contact Helena VonVille at
  713-500-9131 or Helena.M.VonVille_at_uth.tmc.edu