AN OVERVIEW ON CITATION ANALYSIS TOOLS. Shivanand F. Mulimani Research Scholar, Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belagavi, Karnataka, India.

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1 Abstract: AN OVERVIEW ON CITATION ANALYSIS TOOLS 1 Shivanand F. Mulimani Research Scholar, Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belagavi, Karnataka, India. 2 Dr. Shreekant G. Karkun Librarian, Basaveshwar Engineering College, Bagalkot, Karnataka, India. This paper presents a brief overview on purpose, importance & type of citation analysis and tools. The citations features of three popular citation analysis tools i.e. Scopus, Google Scholar and Web of Science are discussed in detail.ranking of information is a key aspects of information management in academic and research institutions. By examining changing needs and products, and to encourage the user, Library and Information professionals to understand and manage these resources and respond to the user needs. Keywords: Citation analysis, Web of Science, Google Scholar, Scopus, CiteSeerx. 1. Introduction Citation analysis has turned into a capable instrument to impartially assess an examination of periodicals; decide the utilization of reports in a library; discover the dynamic existence of writing and furthermore the imperative periodicals in different fields of information. Analysis of citation design is a standout amongst the most imperative bibliometric systems including analysis of the references framing some portion of essential correspondence. by and large the mix of both the in - body citation and the bibliographic passage constitutes what is generally thought of as a citation while bibliographic sections without anyone else's input are definitely not. A prime reason for a citation is scholarly genuineness to trait earlier or unimaginative work and thoughts to the right sources and to enable the per user to decide freely whether the referenced material backings the creator's contention in the asserted way. Citations are the formal linkages between distributions that have specific focuses in like manner. Citation design or the analysis is one of the major and prominent branches of bibliometrics. Bibliometrics has set up itself as a reasonable and unmistakable research method for examining exploration of science in light of citation information. Citation checks furnish specialists and heads with a solid and productive pointer for Page 1

2 surveying the exploration execution of creators, ventures, projects, organizations, and nations and the relative effect and nature of their work. Citation analysis, alongside peer judgment and appraisals of distribution checks and settings, is a standout amongst the most broadly utilized techniques in assessing the exploration execution of scholars. Vital impediments detailed in the writing center around, in addition to other things, the issues related with the information sources utilized, particularly Web of Science: the standard and most generally utilized apparatus for producing citation information for inquire about appraisal purposes. Computerized citation ordering has changed the idea of citation analysis inquire about, enabling a huge number of citations to be broke down for huge scale examples and learning disclosure. The principal case of mechanized citation ordering was CiteSeer, later to be trailed by Google Scholar, Web of Science and Scopus. 2. Concept of Citation Analysis Citation analysis is the appraisal of the recurrence, examples and charts of citations in articles and books. When one creator refers to another creator, a relationship is set up. Citation analysis utilizes citations in scholarly attempts to build up joins. A wide range of connections can be discovered, for example, interfaces between creators, between scholarly works, between diaries, between fields, or even between nations. Citations both from and to a specific archive might be considered. 3. Purpose of Citation Analysis Weinstock 5 has pointed out the following purposes of citing previous works by the authors. Paying homage to pioneers. Giving credit to related works. Identifying methodology, equipment etc. Providing background reading Correcting the works of others & correcting one's own work. Criticising previous work. Substantiating claims. Alerting to forthcoming works. Providing leads to poorly disseminated, poorly indexed or un-cited works. Authenticating data and classes of facts, physical contents etc. Identifying original publications or others work describing an eponymic concept of term. Identifying original publication in which an idea or concept was discussed. Page 2

3 4. Significance of Citation Analysis To decide how much effect a specific creator has had by taking a gander at the comprehensive number of citations. The Citation analysis is utilized to examine the citation connects between logical papers, specialized notes and audits. It likewise gives pertinent measures of utility and connections of diaries whose essential capacity is to convey inquire about outcomes. These aides in ID of key reports and production of center arrangements of diaries. It is only bunching of archives as per regular references and citations. Citation analysis gives investigation of the traits of writing including development rate obsolesce, citation rehearses. 5. Types of Citations The citation is different from one citation standard style to another citation standard style. It is also known by many researchers and scholars and writers related to citation styles like APA, Chicago, MLA and many others. Some of the styles in which the citation occurs are given below. Book Citation : The books are usually cited by author followed by year followed by title of the book followed by place of publication and name of the publisher and page numbers which are cited. Magazine Article Citation: The magazine article is by author and title and magazine title volume number and issue number followed by page numbers. Scholarly Journal Article Citation: For the scholarly journal article citation it is first by author followed by title of the article and title of the journal followed by volume and issue number and year of the publication and pagination of the cited article. Now a days it is a trend of putting ISSN and journal website address Government Publication Citation: In this section or citation normally it is first by government name and agency name in which it is published and name of the sub agency if found and document title, place of publication and publisher, year in which it is published. Article or Chapter in a book: This type of citation it is usually found that author and year of publication followed by title of the book and place of publication. Internet Source Citation: The citation of the internet sources varies in many cases like websites and databases. But it is one commonly found is author followed by title of webpage and title of complete work followed by website address followed by date of access. Page 3

4 5. Citation Analysis Tools There are several tools available for citation analysis, some are subscription-based and others are free. Each tool has its strengths and weaknesses and none of them covers the entire universe of scholarly publications. Therefore, it is important to use more than one tool to get a fuller picture of the scholarly impact of an author or a journal. Few popular citation analysis tools are as follows; 5.1 Web of Science The Web of Science stage associates the territorial citation records, patent information, specific subject lists, and a file of research informational indexes, with everything taken into account totaling more than 33,000 diaries, to investigate the citation universe crosswise over subjects and around the globe. It likewise gives access to the most solid, coordinated, multidisciplinary investigate associated through connected substance citation measurements from different sources inside a solitary interface. It sticks to a strict assessment process, be guaranteed just the most persuasive, pertinent, and tenable data is incorporated permitting to enormous thought quicker. Web of Science associates the whole inquiry and find process through head Multidisciplinary Content, Emerging Trends, Subject Specific Content, Find high-affect articles and meeting procedures. Reveal applicable outcomes in related fields. Find rising patterns to seek after effective research and allow obtaining. Distinguish potential colleagues with huge citation records. Coordinate looking, composition, and book reference creation into one streamlined process. 5.2 Scopus Scopus propelled in November It is the biggest conceptual and citation database of associate looked into writing, including brilliant instruments to track, dissect and picture inquire about. With 22,800 titles from more than 5,000 global distributers, Scopus conveys the most extensive perspective of the world's exploration yield in the fields of science, innovation, pharmaceutical, sociology and expressions and humanities Scopus is the biggest conceptual and citation database of associate looked into writing: logical diaries, books and meeting procedures. Conveying an extensive diagram of the world's exploration yield in the fields of science, innovation, pharmaceutical, sociologies, and expressions and humanities, Scopus highlights shrewd devices to track, break down and picture inquire about. Scopus contains 22,800 more titles. More than 21,950 companion investigated diaries including more than 3,600 full open access diaries. 280 exchange productions. More than 560 book arrangement. More than 8 million meeting papers from more than 100,000 overall occasions. "Articles-in-Press" from more than 8,000 diaries. More than 150,000 books with 20,000 included each year. More than 69 million Page 4

5 records. more than 62.4 million records post 1969 with references. Over 6.6 million records pre-1970, with the most established record going back to Licenses are more than 39 million patent records from five patent offices. 5.3 Google Scholar Google Scholar Citations give a basic approach to writers to monitor citations to their articles. Through this it is conceivable to check who is referring to your distributions, chart citations after some time, and figure a few citation measurements. It additionally makes your profile open, so it might show up in Google Scholar comes about when individuals look for by name. The best part is that it's fast to set up and easy to keep up - regardless of the possibility that you have composed many articles, and regardless of the possibility that the name is shared by a few unique scholars. It can include gatherings of related articles, not only one article at once; and the citation measurements are figured and refreshed consequently as Google Scholar finds new citations to the work on the web. It additionally causes in having rundown of articles refreshed consequently or audit the updates themselves or to physically refresh the articles whenever. 5.4 CiteSeerx CiteSeerx is a developing logical writing computerized library and web index that has concentrated essentially on the writing in PC and data science. CiteSeerx intends to enhance the scattering of logical writing and to give changes in usefulness, ease of use, accessibility, cost, extensiveness, effectiveness, and auspiciousness in the entrance of logical and scholarly learning. As opposed to making simply one more advanced library, CiteSeerx endeavors to give assets, for example, calculations, information, metadata, administrations, methods, and software that can be utilized to advance other computerized libraries. CiteSeerx has grown new techniques and calculations to record PostScript and PDF inquire about articles on the Web. Citeseerx gives the accompanying highlights. Autonomous citation indexing Automatic metadata extraction Citation statistics Reference linking Author disambiguation Awareness and tracking Related documents Full-text indexing Query-sensitive summaries Up-to-date Powerful search Harvesting of articles Metadata of articles Personal Content Portal Page 5

6 6. Conclusion In this internet era the researchers are getting huge number of websites which are highlighting many information. It is not an easy way to judge the relevancy in it. In such situation the database and other consortia related websites are found correct and accurate and authoritative to the researchers. But the problem arises is which is database and how to find that it is a database. In such situation the librarian role play a vital role. As of late, various articles have thought about the scope highlights, and citation analysis capacities of Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar and Citeseerx. Every database shows its own particular qualities and shortcomings, including strategies for analysis, contrasts in scope, and methods for connecting references. Google Scholar has the ability to interface citation data to singular references. In spite of the fact that Scopus and Web of Science give complete citation reports. References 1) Accessed on March 07, ) Accessed on March 07, ) Accessed on April 02, ) Accessed on April 02, ) Accessed on April 02, ) Garfield, E., & Henry. (1983). Essays of an Information Scientist. New York: p ) Weinstock, N. (1971). Citation Indexes. New York: p.20. 8) L.S.R.C. V. Ramesh & A.V.S.S. Nagaraju.(2000). Citation analysis of the Indian journal of information library and society. Indian journal of information library and society, p.13. 9) Nancy K. Herther.(2009). Research evaluation and citation analysis: key issues and implications. The Electronic Library, p ) Jacso, P. (2006). Deflated, inflated and phantom citation counts. Online Information Review, p ) Noruzi, A. (2005). Google Scholar: The new generation of citation indexes. LIBRI p Page 6

CITATION INDEX AND ANALYSIS DATABASES

1. DESCRIPTION OF THE MODULE CITATION INDEX AND ANALYSIS DATABASES Subject Name Paper Name Module Name /Title Keywords Library and Information Science Information Sources in Social Science Citation Index