Hello welcome to my gateway in to this tutorial I'll be explaining how to
Search in
web of science
how to fin d out the information for also for authors
countries
Institutions and so on
So you have a particular author you want to get his/her h-index, citation number number of documents or?
The country that has been involved in a particular research area. How do we do that?
So the first is to login
using your
university or
If you have a page in web of science, that is , if you have already created an account
So you log in with your account?
with web of science
So in this case, I'm looking with my University accounts
Okay, so let's start
Let's assume I want to check
for a particular topic
like Oil spillage
or
Pollution. Let's say pollution control
Remember when you have compound words, all quote them
so that all the words can be captured
So you quote because there are two or more words
In this case, I can capture this two words.
You can specify the year, the range
Year published. Let's say between 1998 or let's say between
1990
2019
So when you do that
You must also change the time span
To correspond with the year you chose there. For instance, let's consider range from 1990
to 2019. Alright, so search
Here, I'm trying to see which of the countries have been very active in Pollution Control
So how do you do that? We have nine thousand nine hundred and thirty three results on pollution control
Which of the countries have been very active in this case?
Okay, let's make it more specific
I'm going back to search
I'm changing this topic to "Title". Note that when you use "Topic"
it picks this
keywords from either abstract, title or from the author's keywords usually written at the end of abstract. But I want
Documents
Whose title is actually on pollution control. So I will choose the title
So that I know that each document that comes out is talking about pollution control
The results will be less in this case compare to when using "Topic". As you can see, the results have decreased to 1,897.
This means that
1,897 documents have been published on pollution control
Remember the first time I used topic? Topic will
pick keywords from title, abstract and from author's keywords. This makes the result usually higher
And this usually misleading because you cannot tell
From that result the total number of publication.
Additionally, when using "Topic" instead of "Title", keywords can repeats themselves in the abstract or in the
document's title. Thus, it's better to use title for your search if you are interested in exact number of documents for a particular keyword.
All right, so we have
1897
Publication on pollution control. I want to see which countries are very active in pollution control
Once you get your results you go to analyze results
Okay, so this is the analyze result page
when you get to the analyze result page
You have different items there
you have the publication year
document type
Organization-Enhanced, funding agencies. So you want to see the agency that have been funding research relating to Pollution Control.
If I click on this you will see the different agencies
See national Natural Science Foundation of China
Natural Science Foundation of China
And so on. These are the agencies that are
Championing
Research on pollution control. Let's see the countries. Click on countries to see
Out of the total countries involved, you have
448 documents from China
121 documents from England, 62 documents from Canada, 52 documents from Japan
436 document from USA. Therefore, in terms of pollution control,
China is the leading country followed by USA
then England, Germany
India, Canada and Japan. These are the countries that are spearheading
pollution control research or in forefront of research relating to
pollution control. For example, I want to see what is going on in China. What are the kind of documents?
So when you're on each of the country you click on view record. Let's view the record for China
Okay, so these are the documents the various articles or publications for China
Okay
So I can also check the citation record
For this so you click on create citation
reports
This was China alone, okay. So for China you have among the
results you have the h-index to be 29
448 publications
Total number of times cited
3393
So you can also go ahead to find out the most cited document. So I will just scroll down to see the most cited documents
Usually, the top ten cited documents are being displayed depending on the settings
So this is the most cited document "preparation of nanofibrous metal Organic framework".
How many times cited?
145 citation followed by "Coal combustion and its pollution control in china"
126 citations. So these are the top cited
Document publications in China. All right, so we've been able to analyze China. China has total number of
3393 citations, h-index of
29 and 448 documents. Let's go back and see
For others
Okay, let's say for US
View record. These are the publications for US. To see the citation reports, click on create citation reports
When they say create a citation report, it does not end here. You can export
results in excel file. Look at save to excel. So if I click on this I
Will have this
Telling me to export. Since it's for 436 results, we can export everything.
The maximum you can export is 500 documents. When it's above 500, you have to break it in batches
But in this case, you can export everything 436. Click on export
So you save
Let's see what it looks like. So if I open this excel
document, it'll show me information
for all the publication
under US. You can do the same thing for each of the countries or you can do everything. So, let me see
So this excel formats
total
Publication
For USA. You can see the region is US
Publication year will be
1990 to 2019, time span, etc.
The summary of your results.
result found: 436
Sum of the times cited
6450. Wow, even more than China! China has a higher publication, but US the highest citation.
higher h-index. China has
29 while US has h-index of 40 Okay, so you can see we have full information
This is very important or very useful because you can get all the articles there from the exported
file
These are the articles. Let me expand it so they can be seen very well
The articles are arranged in the order of number of citations
This is the first article, meaning that this is the most cited article. Let's see, the citation number here.
You can see
total citation for that article is
434
followed by the next article 359
193
176 and so on so
that is how
To see each of the document under a particular item in this case. The item we're considering is the country
Go back to web of science
So let us consider authors as an item
That is, as an item under the search results
This is the results we searched earlier.
which is
this
Result we obtained from our search on pollution control
So, let's see authors. Come back here under these items. click authors
Well, for some reason I don't know, it's showing anonymous
this is the reason why it's good to use a
Software to get good results because there's something called false negative
and false positive when you're doing Bibliometric analysis or scientometrics analysis.
Web of science will not be able to give you everything. It's good to use
Software like VOSViewer to get the actual results. From such software, we'll be able to get
The authors that make up these anonymous
Okay, for instance, let me check this; this author has 15 publications. Let's check his record
click on View record
Then you go to analyze results
Sorry, that's a mistake. Go to create citation report
Okay, so you click on create citation
Create citation reports to see. So for this author,
the h-index is 8,
number of publication 15,
total number of citation
197
without self citation 194
Citing articles 186
without self citation 183
You can export the file in excel format
Just click on save to excel and you get all the documents in order of citation
alright, so this
So this is how to find information regarding different
Category, authors, countries institutions funding agencies and all that. Okay
What again am I missing out?
Again am I missing out?
Okay. Yeah, so you can analyze this result using software like VOSViewer,
CiteSpace and Gephi. There are other software for analyzing results
from Web of science or other database collection like Scopus.
I'll be explaining in a separate video on how to use VOSViewer
software for analyzing results from web of science
If you have any comments regarding this
feel free to
To put down your comment. If there's a question you need to ask, also feel free to put it down in the comment section below this video
I hope this video helped
Thank you for watching. Bye for now