This is a presentation for researchers that covers the following topics: - Impact Factor - H-index - Setting up information alerts

1. Darya Bukhtoyarova
NU Library
Reference
September 2013
Stay Current, Know Your Impact

2. 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

3. 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 2012
 Devised by Eugene Garfield, the founder of the Institute for
Scientific Information, in 1960
 Varies across disciplines
 Example for Nature Methods:

4. 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

5.  JCR (Journal Citation Reports)
 A database of information about academic journals, most
importantly impact factors; updated annually
 Web 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

6. 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
Subscription
 Bibliographic Databases -> Web of Science

7. Working with JCR
 Finding impact factor of journals:
 Nature
 Anthropology and Archeology of Eurasia
 Finding top journals for your discipline or research
topic
 Chemistry
 Magnetic resonances in chemistry

8. Finding Impact Factor for Nature

9. Finding top journals in chemistry

10. List of top-20 journals in
chemistry

11. Please create your account at Web
of Knowledge
 Go to Sign in -> Register

12. Working with Web of Science
 Research topic: Impact of class size on students’
success
 Find the latest articles on the topic
 Find the top cited articles on the topic
 Create an alert to stay updated on this topic

13. 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 OR
 Select appropriate field: topic, author, organization, etc.

14. Most recent results

15. Most cited results

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

17. 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 Rover
 Find publications by this author if Web of Science
 Find Leshin’s h-index
 Set citation alert for one of her articles

18. Search by author

19. Getting the name right
 Search with last name and initial(s), not the full
name
 GrotzingerJP vs Grotzinger John
 For names not originally in the Roman alphabet:
check the spelling!
 Yelikov OR Elibekov
 Kamzebayeva OR Kamzebaeva
 Khalelov OR Halelov
 When publishing, try to use the same spelling for
all your publications

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

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

22. Set up citation alerts
 For your articles to know when you get cited
 For articles that are important for your research

23. Further workshops to attend
 RefWorks. 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.

24. Contact us
EMAIL: REFERENCE@NU.EDU.KZ
ASK-A-LIBRARIAN CHAT OR ATRIUM DESK
FACEBOOK.COM/NAZARBAYEV.UNIVERSITY.LIB
RARY
TWITTER.COM/LIBRARY_NU

25. Question time!