SEARCH about SCIENCE: databases, personal ID and evaluation Laura Garbolino Biblioteca Peano Dip. Matematica Università degli studi di Torino laura.garbolino@unito.it
Talking about Web of Science, Scopus, MathSciNet. Publications ID in the databases (DOI, WOS number, Scopus number ID). Index (Impact Factor, H-index...). Personal profile: ResearchGate Personal ID: ResearcherID, ORCID: the advantages of being unique and unmistakable and the opportunity of creating a colleagues network. IRIS and Open Access. VQR: 2011-2014. Local criteria CRSA (Commissione ricerca Senato Accademico).
Web of Science (WOS) 1 http://apps.webofknowledge.com/ Previously known as (ISI) Web of Knowledge is an online scientific citation indexing based on subscription and maintained by Thomson Reuters that provides a comprehensive citation search. It allows to access to multiple databases: very good for cross-disciplinary research (multidisciplinary) * more than 90 million of records * more than 12 000 international journals, also some books and proceedings
Web of Science (WOS) 2 DB connected to the service «TROVA» to find from the DB the full text of the item if there is an online access Output are sortable by date, citations Each item has some specific information linked to the item itself and to the bibliography (WOS number) NB: DB are made by robots: it s necessary to educate the databases adding details both to fix mistakes and information loss
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Scopus 1 http://www.scopus.com It is a bibliographic database containing abstracts and citations of academic journal articles. It provides nearly 22000 titles from over 5000 publishers, 20000 of them are peerreviewed journals on the following fields: scientific, technical, medical, and social sciences (including arts and humanities). It is owned by Elsevier. All Elsevier journal are in the DB!
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Scopus 2 DB connected to the service «TROVA» to find from the DB the full text of the item if there is an online access. Outputs are sortable by date, citations There are some specific information (Scopus ID) linked to each item and to its bibiliography.
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MathSciNet 1 http://www.ams.org/mathscinet/ It s a bibliographic database by AMS (American Mathematical Society) about mathematics, statistics, computer science, mathematical economics and finance. From Jan 2014 there is the possibility to create a personal profile. DB is connected to the service «TROVA» to find from the DB the full text of the item if there is a online access.
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MathSciNet 2 TAB «Citations» offer a different way of searching. NOTE: journal rank : Top 10 list «Top Journal MCQs* cited in the MR Citation Database» *Mathematical Citation Quotient (Like the impact factor, this is a numerical statistic that measures the frequency of citations to a journal. It is calculated by counting the total number of citations into the journal that have been indexed by Mathematical Reviews over a five-year period, and dividing this total by the total number of papers published by the journal during that five-year period)
Retrive ITEMS At the library the service Document Delivery (DD) is active as well as the service of Inter Library Loan (ILL) only for materials not available locally in paper or electronic form (email the librarian). Ask for items also using NILDE-Utenti from «TROVA» NB: SCI HUB The first pirate website in the world to open mass and public access to tens of millions research papers sci-hub (if you are desperate!)
Scientometrics It s the study of measuring and analysing science, technology and innovation, measurement of impact, reference sets of articles to investigate the impact of journals and institutes, understanding of scientific citations, mapping scientific fields and the production of indicators for use in policy and management contexts. Methods of research include qualitative, quantitative and computational approaches. However, new algorithmic methods in search, machine learning and data mining shows that this system needs to be controlled: data are not reliable, they are just numbers that need a more focused analysis.
Impact factor IF(journal) by Eugene Garfield (ISI) The impact factor (IF) of an academic journal is a measure that reflects the average number of citations to recent articles published in that journal. It is frequently used as a proxy for the relative importance of a journal within its field, with journals with higher impact factors deemed to be more important than those with lower ones. Journals that are indexed in the Journal of Citation Report (JCR) one of the DB of Web of Knowledge http://www.webofknowledge.com/jcr NOTE: Some journals are index in different subject category
H-index (author) suggested in 2005 by J. E. HIRSCH The h-index is an author-level metric that attempts to measure both the productivity and citation impact of the publications of a scientist or scholar. The index is based on the set of the scientist's most cited papers and the number of citations that they have received in other publications. If we have a researcher with 5 publications A, B, C, D, and E with 10, 8, 5, 4, and 3 citations, respectively, the h-index is equal to 4 because the 4th publication has 4 citations and the 5th has only 3
Researcher Network Researcher network let you have fast and easy access at the colleague s works *to take part in EU projects program you must be in a network *to know what others are doing and to work together ResearchGate
ResearchGate Join 8 million researchers, including 45 Nobel Laureates ResearchGate is a social networking site for scientists and researchers to share papers (copyright), ask and answer questions, and find collaborators. Research by subject category. Ask the author to provide you papers that the library can t find. ResearchGate display job offers and international doctoral programs.
What s the difference between ResearchGate and the institutional repository? ResearchGate or Academia.edu are social networking platforms whose primary aim is to connect researchers with common interests. Users create profiles on these services, and are then encouraged to list their publications and other scholarly activities, upload copies. Both services are commercial companies. Institutional repositories (IRs) are generally library-run websites that enable authors to upload a version of their manuscripts for public open access display. The primary aim of institutional repositories is to make the scholarly outputs of the university as widely available as possible and to ensure long-term preservation of these outputs. Subject-based repositories collect publications in a particular discipline or a range of disciplines, so that authors in a field can share and solicit feedback on their work from colleagues in that field, regardless of where they work.
International Standard Name Identifier The International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) is an identifier for uniquely identifying the public identities of contributors to media content such as books and articles. It can be used to disambiguate names that might otherwise be confused. Scopus, WOS and also MathSciNet offers the opportunity to create a personal identifier but only ORCID and ResearcherID are internationally recognized
ORCID (http://orcid.org/) Oct 2012 Open Researcher and Contributor ID is a nonproprietary alphanumeric code to uniquely identify scientific and academic authors. Personal names are not unique, they can change (such as with marriage), have cultural differences in name order, contain inconsistent use of first-name abbreviations and employ different writing systems. Such an identifier consists of 16 digits. It can optionally be displayed as divided into four blocks. NOTE: Obligatory for VQR 2011-2014
ResearcherID Jan 2008 ResearcherID is an identifying system for scientific authors is an identifying system for scientific authors. The system was introduced in January 2008 by Thomson Reuters. This unique identifier aims at solving the problem of author identification. On the ResearcherID website, authors are asked to link their ResearcherID to their own articles. The combined use of the DOI with the ResearcherID allows a unique association of authors and scientific articles, ResearcherID has been criticized for being commercial and Thomson Reuters has enabled data exchange between its ResearcherID system and ORCID, and vice versa.
ArXiv self-archived The arxiv (pronounced "archive as if the "X" were the Greek letter Chi, χ) is a repository of electronic preprints, of scientific papers, known as e-prints, in the fields of mathematics, physics, astronomy, computer science, quantitative biology, statistics, and quantitative finance, which can be accessed online. A majority of the e-prints are also submitted to journals for publication, but some work, including some very influential papers, remain purely as e-prints and are never published in a peerreviewed journal. A well-known example of the latter is an outline of a proof of Thurston's geometrization conjecture, including the Poincaré conjecture as a particular case, uploaded by Grigori Perelman in November 2002. NOTE: Journal-ref: if you add DOI and journal reference, authors can cite the publisched version: it s useful for H-index!
This is the link for IRIS- AperTO «Sito web di riferimento»
IRIS-AperTO catalogo della ricerca https://iris.unito.it/ IRIS is the new UniTO IT platform that makes easy to collect and manage data on research activities and outputs. AperTO is the Open Access Institutional Repository of the University of Torino, aimed at archiving, disseminating and preserving our scientific outputs.
IRIS-AperTO You can add items by identifier (DOI, Scopus ID, ISBN, PubMED ID, arxiv ID...) or by manual submission FILL IN all fields you can! NOTE: from Nov 2013 you must upload a file complient with editorial policies in PDF version for OA Institutional Repository. You also have to add a PDF editorial version not opened (accesso riservato) for evaluation purpose.
Describe in 8 steps your ITEM. Fill in not only the «required fields»! Every peace of information is important!
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Local evaluation (2011-2015) Every researcher must select a variable number of «prodotti» (item) among the «core items» of the department (books, articles, book chapters, proceedings, patents and software) Core items are definded for each «AREA» (ie: 01, 13 ) From 3 to 5 items in the last 5 years (7 years for books '01A-Monografie') dipending on «settore concorsuale di appartenenza» (Scientific-Disciplinary Sectors (SSD)) Items of multiple author could be selected once in the department
Area MIUR 1 SSD MAT 04 FROM OTHERS!
Area MIUR 1 SSD MAT 04 FROM OTHERS!
VQR 2011-2014 2 items published between 2011-2014 (also only first on-line 2014 and really in 2015) Journals article with ISSN Books with ISBN Book chapters in book with ISBN Conference in book with ISBN Data base and software Patents But each GEV (Gruppo Esperti Valutatori) commission can decide to limit To take part to the evaluation you need to create a ORCID number and associate it at your DB on IRIS-AperTO.
AREA 01 Books, book chapters, conference proceedings ALL PEER reviews Journal articles Evaluation based on a list of academic jounals for each SSD For each journal is calculated the number of papers present in the DB (Scopus, MathSciNet and WOS) every year. The top Journals are the first 10% of them: IPP (Impact per publication) Than the evaluation is based on the number of citations from Scopus or WOS.
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AREA 01 (3) BUT For a journal article publisched in 2013 with a IPP (Impact per publication) of 2.92, three citations are enough to be evaluated very good (Elevato) and nine to be excellent (Eccellente). But if the IPP is 2.32, the paper could not be excellent also with 70 citations.
WEB sites WOS: http://apps.webofknowledge.com SCOPUS : https://www.scopus.com/home.uri MatSciNet: http://www.ams.org/mathscinet/search.html ResearcherID: http://wokinfo.com/researcherid/ ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/home IRIS AperTO: https://iris.unito.it/ SHERPA-RoMEO: Publisher copyright policies & self-archiving http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/index.php ArXiv: https://arxiv.org/