TRAINING PROGRAM : THOMSON REUTERS WEB OF SCIENCE & ENDNOTE

 

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TRAINING PROGRAM : THOMSON REUTERS WEB OF SCIENCE & ENDNOTE
Date: 29 August 2014(Friday)
Time: 9.30 am-4.00 pm
Venue: Bilik 1, Pusat IT, PTAR 1, UiTM Shah Alam.
Participants: 50 persons only

(Postgraduate students, Lecturers, Librarian & Researcher).
Speaker: Mr. Wilson Tan, Thomson.

Berminat sila hubungi :
Fatimatun Nur Binti Zainal Ulum
Unit Impak & Etika Penyelidikan
Institut Pengurusan Penyelidikan (RMI)
UiTM Shah Alam
Tel: 03-5544 8069
Fax: 03-5544 2096
Alternate email: fatimatunnur@gmail.com

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Quick Reference : Journal Citation Reports

Citing Half- Life

The citing half-life identifies the number of years from the current year that account for 50% of the cited references from articles published by a journal in the current year. Used together with the Cited Hal-Life, this number aids the evaluation of editorial policies.

Cited Journal Graph

This graph shows the distribution by cited year of citations to articles published in the selected journal.

Citing Journal Graph

This graph shows the distribution by cited year of citations from current year articles in the selected journal.

Source Data Table

The Source Data table provides information regarding the number of review articles versus original research articles that are published by a particular journal. This number also includes the number of references from a journal were not processed for inclusion in the citation indexes.

International Diversity

Thomson Reuters editors look for International Diversity among the contributing authors and the journal's editors and Editorial Advisory Board members. This is particularly important in journals targeting an international audience. Today's scientific research takes place in a global context and an internationally diverse journal is more likely to have importance in the international community of researchers.


As the global distribution of Web of Science expands into virtually every region on earth, the importance of regional scholarship to our emerging regional user community also grows. Selection criteria for regional journals are the same as for international journals although citation analyses play a somewhat different role in the outcome.


For example, the importance of the regional journal would be measured more in terms of the specificity of its content. Will it enrich our coverage of a particular subject or provide studies with a specific regional perspective?


Many excellent regional journals target a local rather than an international audience. therefore, the emphasis on extensive international diversity is less than for internationally focused journals.


All regional journals selected must be publishing on time, have English- language bibliographic information (title, abstract, keywords) and be peer reviewed. Cited references must be in the Roman alphabet.

What is Journal Selection Process? part#2

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The Evaluation Process

Journal evaluation and selection is ongoing at Thomson Reuters with journals added to and deleted from the database as frequently as every two weeks. Each year, Thomson Reuter`s editorial staff reviews over 2,000 journal titles, and selects around 10-12% of the journals evaluated for inclusion in the database.


Moreover, existing journal coverage in Thomson Reuters products is constantly under review. Journals now covered are monitored to ensure that they are maintaining high standards and a clear relevance to the products in which they are covered.


The journal selection process described here is applied to all journals in Web of Science, whether covered in Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, or Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Some special consideration is given in the evaluation of social science and arts & humanities journals, particularly with regard to citation analysis.


Many factors are taken into account when evaluating journals for coverage, ranging from the qualitative to the quantitative. The journal`s basic publishing standards, its editorial content, the international diversity of its authorship, and the citation data associated in isolation,but by combining and interrelating the data, the editor is able to determine the journal`s overall strengths and weaknesses.


Thomson Reuters editors performing journal evaluations have educational backgrounds relevant to their areas of responsibility as well as experience and education in information science

What is Journal Selection Process?

Introduction:-


Thomson Reuters is committed to providing comprehensive coverage of the world`s most important and influential journals to meet its subscribers current awareness and retrospective information retrieval needs. Today Web of Science Cover over 9,000 international and regional journals and book series in every area of the natural sciences, social sciences,art and humanities. But comprehensive does not necessarily mean all-inclusive.




Why Be Selective?
It would appear that, in order to be comprehensive, an index to scientific journal literature might be expected to cover all the scientific journals published. This approach would be not only impractical economically, but as analyses of the scientific literature have shown, unnecessary. It has been demostrated that a relatively small number of journals publish the bulk of significant scientific results. This principle is often referred to as Bradford Law.


In the mid- 1930`s S.C Bradford realized that the core literature for any given scientific discipline was composed of fewer than 1,000 journals. Of these 1,000 journals, there are relatively few with a very strong relevance to the given topic, whereas there are many with a weaker relevance to it.


Those with a weak relevance to the given discipline or topic, however, typically have a strong relevance to some other discipline. thus, the core scientific literature can form itself around various topics, with individual journals becoming more or less relevant depending on the topic.


More recently an analysis of 7,528 journals covered in the 2005 JCR revealed that as few as 300 journals account for more than 50% of what is cited and more than 25% of what is published in them. A core of 3,000of these journals accounts for about 75% of published articles and over 90% of cited articles.






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Report ISI Thomson Reuters Talk

BACKGROUND

Talk on the ISI by Thomson Reuters had been organized by RMI and cooperated with PTAR as a host. The purposes of program are to provide opportunities for participants to learn about ISI Web of Knowledge Online Database, which was subscribed by PTAR. Through this program, participants had learned about the use of "smart discovery", "ISI Journal Selection Process", Journal Citation report, EndNotes and Researcher ID.

OBJECTIVE

"To improve the quality of journals, articles and research In Malaysia. With the explosion of available information (truthful u / validated and false / non-validated types), it is Important to retrieve what is relevant and useful. "

( Dr.Razidah with Mr. Patrick See)

(Speaker Lim Khee Hiang)

Prinsipal Trainer Customer Education

Thomsom Reurters

( Information on the ISI Thomson)

( Mr. Rajdev Narayanasamy)

Senior Regional Sales Maganer. South & SE Asia

( Mr. Sharol Nizam Johol, Officer RSSD (Librarian) )

ACTIVITIES UNDERTAKEN:

• There are 42 participants involved in program.
• This program was attended by, the University Research Committees, post-graduate students, and PTAR librarians.
• Opening speech by Prof Madya Dr Hjh Razidah Ismail from the Institute of Management Research (RMI)
• Then, the program continued with a briefing by the ISI Web of Knowledge by En.Lim Khee Hiang.
• In the evening, there were hands on ISI Web of Knowledge and the Journal Citation Report by En.Lim Khee Hiang and assist by Rajdev Narayanasamy.

COMMENTS & SUGGESTIONS:

1. Delivery services for if the books available for example, PTAR 3 - PTAR 1 

2. More guidance on how to use the EndNotes.

3. Increase the time for "Hands On"

CONCLUTION

The program has been carried out properly. In the presence of 42 participants were to some extent to achieve the objective of this program focuses on the use of the database ISI Web of Knowledge. This program also provides exposure to participants on ISI Thomson especially EndNotes and Researcher ID specifically.