Citation Enhanced Searching: Introduction to Web of Science and Journal Citation Reports for Graduate Students

Note: the presentation will be held using Zoom only.

Registration is required.

To register, please email sciref@hawaii.edu

Description:

Web of Science is a multidisciplinary database that covers high-quality journals with citation information.  Citation information is used both to evaluate the importance of articles and to search for relevant articles.  This workshop is aimed at graduate students who want to learn how to find the most important journals in their field, the most cited papers for their topics, and how to use citation tracing to comprehensively search for articles.

Topics:

• Web of Science Overview
• Citation Basics
• Identifying Top Cited Articles
• Evaluating Journals using the Journal Impact Factor
• Citation Tracing
• Keeping up to date: Search Alerts and Citation Alerts
• Advanced Topics: Author Metrics, Altmetrics, Citation Analysis, H index

Contact sciref@hawaii.edu to register or for more information.

The event is co-sponsored by Graduate Division.