Tuesday, June 23, 2009

2008 Journal Impact Factors and H-index

The new Journal Impact Factors published by ISI Web of Knowledge are available now.

"Journal Citation Reports® offers a systematic, objective means to critically evaluate the world's leading journals, with quantifiable, statistical information based on citation data. By compiling articles' cited references, JCR helps to measure research influence and impact at the journal and category levels, and shows the relationship between citing and cited journals. "
  • Go to http://wok.mimas.ac.uk(requires RAVEN login if not using University computer)
  • click on "additional resources" tab
  • open "journal citation reports"
  • search for "specific journal" or browse by subject category
Find your "H-index" by using Web of Science
The h-index is based on a list of publications ranked in descending order by the Times Cited. The value of h is equal to the number of papers (N) in the list that have N or more citations.

  • Go to http://wok.mimas.ac.uk(requires RAVEN login if not using University computer)
  • click on "Web of Science" tab
  • search for the authors name ( eg O'Brian C*)
  • click on the "create citation report" option
If you need any help with citation reports, h-indexes, or any thing else to do with articles or literature searching, contact Isla.

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