Web of Knowledge sessions at JCU

JCU library is offering expert training for staff and postgraduate students in using the Web of Knowledge to enhance their research. Steven Werkheiser – visiting Thomson Reuters’ trainer from Sydney will be presenting.

Cairns:
Monday April 27
1pm-3.30pm
Room B1.104 Library Building

Townsville:
Tuesday April 28
9am-11.30pm
Eastern Group Room, top floor, Mabo Library

Session content:
Journal Citation Reports and Essential Science Indicators
Times: Cns 1300-1350; Tsv 0900-0950
  • Five-year Impact Factor – A longer time span provides you with more accurate trends
  • Impact Factor “boxplots” and Rank-in-Category Tables – Visualize Impact Factor and how a journal ranks in different and/or multiple categories
  • See how journal self-citations affect Impact Factor
  • Eigenfactor, a metric that uses citing journal data from the entire JCR file to reflect the prestige and citation influence of journals by considering scholarly literature as a network of journal-to-journal relationships
Web of Knowledge enhancements and Web of Science citation searching with Endnote Web
Times: Cns 1400-1500; Tsv 1000-1100
  • Recent enhancements to the Web of Knowledge platform including searchable funding data
  • The new Conference Papers Citation Index – Science, and Social Science & Humanities, and how this effects citation counts within the Web of Science
  • Citation map feature providing graphical display of an article's backward and forward citations
  • EndNote Web and how sharing can enhance collaboration among researchers
  • ResearcherID allowing researchers to manage their publications and access citation metrics
BIOSIS on the Web of Knowledge
Times: Cns 1500-1530; Tsv 1100-1130
  • Look at detailed BIOSIS indexing available through the Web of Knowledge interface
  • Unique Refine and Analyze fields

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