Help Me Find a Citation or Tools for Citation Analysis

The word “citation” has several meanings. It can mean the reference to a publication that includes the title, author, name of publication, etc. or it can refer to the citation count which is the number of times an article or author has been cited.

Citations for publications can be found in any literature database.

The number of times an article has been cited can be found through either a basic author or title search in Web of Science. The times cited number is listed at the end of the reference.

The number of times an author has been cited can be found through a Cited Reference search in Web of Science.

The h-index is another way to evaluate an author. It assesses the impact of an individual author’s total output and takes into account both the quantity and quality of publications. The h-index is based on the number of publications ranked in descending order by the Times Cited. An h-index of 10 means an author has published ten papers with at least ten citations each. In Web of Science the h-index is based on the publications indexed in that database only. It does not take into account publications in non-refereed journals, books, and reports.

Essential Science Indicators (ESI) is an analytical tool to compare publishing records of institutions. It gauges science performance statistics and trends over the most current ten years based on numbers of journal articles published and numbers of citations to these journal articles. ESI can be used to compare this information for institutions publishing in specific fields such as geosciences or environment/ecology.

Through ESI you can find what ISI Thomson Scientific defines as Hot Papers.“Hot Papers are papers that receive citations soon after publication relative to other papers of that same field and age. Selected papers are based on a current 2 month citation window looking back only 2 years. A 0.1% threshold is applied to each field and bimonthly period over a 2 year span.”