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The measures below are available for some documents in Web of Science and can be used as an indicator of research impact:
* Web of Science Training. (2013). Web of Science item level usage counts. [Video file]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/rpLNqBRQLwc.
A 'Citation Report' makes it possible to analyze citation and publication activity over time for a defined group of Web of Science publications via the Create Citation Report feature.This feature includes publication and citation graphs, as well as aggregate citation data.
Specific measures include:
A Web of Science citation report can be generated for a maximum of 10,000 results; a citation report cannot be generated for results exceeding this amount.
Citation variants can be identified using Web of Science's Cited Reference Search option. Citation variants happen when one document misspells the citation for another document.
Watch this two part video series above to learn about how to conduct a cited reference search in Web of Science:
Video 1: What is a Cited Reference Search
Video 2: How to do a Cited Refence Search
Available from the Clarivate Web of Science Libguide.
(Videos, approximately 5 minutes in length)
At the search results view, you can click on the journal name to see the Journal Impact Factor (JIF). As a journal-level metric, this measure is useful for comparing journals.
In Web of Science, Journal Impact Factor refers to the average number of times articles from the journal published in the past two years have been cited in that year in Web of Science. Shows citation data for one and five years.
As with many databases, Web of Science offers a way to keep you up to date with new citations to specific publications. For example: