Research Guides: Scholarly Metrics : Web of Science

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The following metrics are only available through the Web of Science interface:

Ability to create citation report which has a breakdown of times cited by year, h-index, average citation per year, and sum of non-self citations for the author.
Use selection and refining tools to disambiguate from other authors.

Creates a map of citations going forward, backward, or both from the article you search for.
Ability to view information for each citation in the map and subsequently create a new citation map for those records as well.
Option to change display of the map.

Run search for the number of times an article has been cited.
Display of possible variants on article/author name to help with selection of all records of this article.
Access to records and/or full text of articles that have cited the text you are searching.
Ability to create citation report which has a breakdown of times cited by year, h-index, average citation per year, and sum of non-self citations for the articles citing the text.
Option to create a Citation Alert.

Option to search Science or Social Sciences Edition of JCR together or separately.
Can select the year you wish to view the JCR from.
Ability to view and search by journal title or category. Additional option to analyze impact by Categories by Rank or Journals by Rank, with a visualization map that lists aggregate impact factor, number of journals in each category, title changes, and offers a comparison of journals.
Record offers visualizations and graphs to show rank, box plot, journal relationships, and more.
Journal record lists abbreviated title of journal, ISSN, Total Cites, Impact Factor, 5-Year Impact Factor, Eigenfactor Score and Article Influence Score for 2007-present, Immediacy Index, and Cited Half Life.

Citation Rankings for research fields, authors, institutions, countries, and journals.
Information on "Highly Cited Papers," "Hot Papers," "Top Papers," and "Research Fronts."
Citation Analysis is offered on "baselines" (including averages per field, percentiles, and field rankings) and "research fronts."
Graphs to show citation impact for each selection and also a map displaying amount of papers per geographical location.