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Sesión A5 – Navegar por la red de citas

Anne Delgado
19/05/2023
Sesión A5 – Navegar por la red de citas

• Los beneficios de la indexación de citas

• Identificar documentos altamente citados
• Crear y analizar un informe de citas
• Descubrir las citas de cualquier trabajo
• Filtrar por Citation Topics
• Explorar las referencias citadas enriquecidas
• Utilizar la clasificación de las citas

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Sesión A5 – Navegar por la red de citas

• Los beneficios de la indexación de citas

• Identificar documentos altamente citados
• Crear y analizar un informe de citas
• Descubrir las citas de cualquier trabajo
• Filtrar por Citation Topics
• Explorar las referencias citadas enriquecidas
• Utilizar la clasificación de las citas

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Web of Science Core Collection as a True Citation Index
Obtaining complete citation numbers

Track the development and

evolution of ideas
Find early discoveries in conference
• Indexing • Indexing Cited literature and explore their progression
in journal literature and books.
Cover-to-Cover References
Every issue of any covered Articles can be listed in
journal is indexed with no WoS-CC in two ways: as a
content gaps.​ “source” article and as a
Uncover related research via
“cited reference”. ​
Every item of any citation linking
published issue is indexed Every cited reference is Leverage a powerful citation network to
(all contributions within a indexed whether it refers find papers that have cited works of art,
given journal are to a covered source or to a fiction, data models, government
included). ​ source that is not covered. ​ reports, and other material.

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The benefits of citation indexing
Go beyond searching to find relevant papers

See how the field

• Cited References – the research that a paper cites
has developed.
• Times Cited – more recently published papers that cite the paper
• Related Records – papers which share at least one cited reference in common
with the paper. If they share citations, they’re likely discussing similar topics.

2018

References are useful:

• where keywords in the topic
Trace the research Related Records
are not easy to define
back in time. Papers that cite some of the same research
• where older research needs to
be traced
• when you need to see where a
research trend leads

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Navigate the citation network to uncover hidden connections

The citing articles allow users to uncover the

most recent discoveries on this subject.

The Cited References are a link to historical discoveries

Related records is a way to connect publications that are not directly

connected but are inspired by the same discoveries. These results might have
been missed because they might not contain the originally searched keywords.

The first record in the list of Related Records is the one

having the highest number of Shared References
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Citations from all databases
• Within the Citation Network section of a document, you can also find the citations
coming from other databases than the Core Collection.
• Click on “See more times cited” to expand the data.
• “Times Cited in All Databases” is very often inferior to the sum of citations from
each database because the same documents can be indexed in databases.
• Whenever the number of citations appears in purple, it means you have access to
the indicated database within your institutional subscription. You can view the
citing items by clicking on the purple link.

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Citations from patents
• In 2022, Web of Science started counting citations from patents for
documents indexed in the Core Collection.
• This data comes from Derwent Innovations Index (DII) where a patent
“family” is unified and indexed as an invention.
• The number of citations from DII should thus be interpreted as the
number of citations from one invention, whether the citation was done
by the inventors or the examiner.

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Sesión A5 – Navegar por la red de citas

• Los beneficios de la indexación de citas

• Identificar documentos altamente citados
• Crear y analizar un informe de citas
• Descubrir las citas de cualquier trabajo
• Filtrar por Citation Topics
• Explorar las referencias citadas enriquecidas
• Utilizar la clasificación de las citas

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Identify the most influential publications
You will see these icons in the
filters and document records if
your institution subscribes to
Essential Science Indicators.

Citations take time to accrue, so they

may not be the best indicators of
influence for recent publications. For
this reason, we provide Usage Counts.
Every time a Web of Science user
Highly Cited and Hot Paper indicators put citation counts into context. clicks a full text link or exports a
They consider the field of research, year of publication and document type, record, the record’s Usage Count is
comparing ‘like with like’. This information comes from Essential Science Indicators. incremented. This provides an
For more information, please refer to Essential Science Indicators. indication of interest.

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Sesión A5 – Navegar por la red de citas

• Los beneficios de la indexación de citas

• Identificar documentos altamente citados
• Crear y analizar un informe de citas
• Descubrir las citas de cualquier trabajo
• Filtrar por Citation Topics
• Explorar las referencias citadas enriquecidas
• Utilizar la clasificación de las citas

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Creating a citation report
Active for up to
• See the accumulation of citations
10,000 results only
• View the publications over time
• Stats with and without Self-citations

• Drill down into the report from the table

• See citations for each publication, for each year
Analyze the articles that are citing
this group of publications to see
where the citations come from
(countries, institutions, journals)

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 Analyze citing
articles

Citing articles can be analyzed

further to determine what kind of
impact cited publications have.
You can identify not only the range
and size of impact but also identify
the potential collaborations or for
example funding agencies that have
an interest in that kind of studies.

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Sesión A5 – Navegar por la red de citas

• Los beneficios de la indexación de citas

• Identificar documentos altamente citados
• Crear y analizar un informe de citas
• Descubrir las citas de cualquier trabajo
• Filtrar por Citation Topics
• Explorar las referencias citadas enriquecidas
• Utilizar la clasificación de las citas

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Why searching cited references?

1963 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2016 2023

From 1900 for Science & Social Sciences Citation Indexes 2023

Web of Science Core Collection

82M records with all their cited references For example, to search
(1.8B Cited References)
citations to items that
Scientific Press are not indexed in
Articles Patents
articles Web of Science
Works of
Books Core Collection
art

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Searching citations
to literature

Cited Reference Search can find

all occurrences of an entity being
cited, even if the entity itself is
not in the Web of Science.

All you need to know about

Cited Reference Search

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Searching citations All you need to know about
Cited Reference Search
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 Searching citations
to a patent
The Cited Reference in Web of
Science can be used to search for
Cited Patents too.
To do a Cited Reference Search for
patents, enter the patent number in
the Cited Title field. Do not specify a
country code. For example, enter
“5015744” to look up references to
patent US5015744. This search will
retrieve results for citations to patents
from source items indexed in the
database.

TIP – Search the patent numbers of a

patent family with the operator OR
to find the citations to an invention

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What about papers not indexed in Web of Science?
Another option – wider cited references search:
• Cited Author = First author’s name
• Cited Work = Abbreviated Journal name
As an example

You can now explore the 4

citing articles to know who
cited this publication,
when and why ☺

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Citation Alert for
a Cited Reference
Search

When you create an alert

from the results page of the
cited reference search you
save your search and ask Web
of Science to notify you by
email when documents citing
your searched item are
added, whether your
searched item is indexed in
Web of Science or not (book,
work of art, patent, etc.)

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Sesión A5 – Navegar por la red de citas

• Los beneficios de la indexación de citas

• Identificar documentos altamente citados
• Crear y analizar un informe de citas
• Descubrir las citas de cualquier trabajo
• Filtrar por Citation Topics
• Explorar las referencias citadas enriquecidas
• Utilizar la clasificación de las citas

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 Introducing
Citation Topics

Citation Topics are clusters of

documents related by citation.
The clustering algorithm was
developed by CWTS (Leiden)
and deployed under the
stewardship of ISI-Clarivate.

The output is a three-tier

hierarchical classification system
with each document belonging
to a single micro-topic.

An introduction to Citation Topics

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Filtering results by Citation Topics
Refine your search results on a more granular level. Choose from over
300 available meso citation topics or 2500 citation topics based on
your search results.

This classification comes from InCites

Citation Topics are algorithmically derived citation clusters (using an
algorithm developed by CWTS, Leiden). All documents from 1980-
present were algorithmically clustered where possible, based on their
cited and citing relationships in a Leiden-type community algorithm.

Citation Topics are updated on an annual basis. If you have alerts that
include citation topics, these changes may affect the results you see
when rerunning or accessing past search results. Stay up to date by
creating a new alert with the latest Citation Topics.
Download Citation Topics schema here

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Sesión A5 – Navegar por la red de citas

• Los beneficios de la indexación de citas

• Identificar documentos altamente citados
• Crear y analizar un informe de citas
• Descubrir las citas de cualquier trabajo
• Filtrar por Citation Topics
• Explorar las referencias citadas enriquecidas
• Utilizar la clasificación de las citas

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 Exploring Enriched
Cited References

Understanding how and why For some recent records, you might see
citations occur will help you this additional icon and link
research smarter and faster.

Refine your search results using the

“Quick Filter” to view source articles
that contain enriched cited references.

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 • Appears for documents indexed from 2021
Exploring Enriched Cited References • To date, citation context data is available for articles
from over 75% of journals in the Web of Science Core
Take the guided tour below the purple icon Collection, and this coverage will continue to expand.

• The visualization preserves

author’s logical connections
between references as each
dot represents an in-text
4 classifications

mention of a cited reference.

• Distance between dots mirrors

distance in the body of article.
Dots that are physically closer
to each other are more
related.

4 sections (expandable)
Sections hint at the author’s intent (introduction = key
paper, materials = how to structure experiment, etc.)
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 Citation
classification Clarivate evaluates author’s exact wording in the sentences surrounding the
mention to understand context. The mentions are classified as follows:

• Background - previously published research that orients the current study

within a scholarly area.

• Basis - references that report the data sets, methods, concepts and ideas
that the author is using for her work directly or on which the author bases
her work.

• Discuss - references mentioned because the current study is going into a

more detailed discussion.

• Support - references which the current study reports to have similar results
to. This may also refer to similarities in methodology or in some cases
replication of results.

• Differ - references which the current study reports to have differing results
to. This may also refer to differences in methodology or differences in
sample sizes, affecting results.

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Exploring Enriched Cited References • Cited References re-ordered to display
in order of First appearance.
• Sort by All appearance to view the
other references in proximity (aka
neighborhood).
• Sort by Cited in the article highest to
show the references that had the most
impact to the author(s) of this paper.

Expand a section and mouse over dots to see which cited references it
represents. Click on the Reference dot in the visualization to view the
details - the classification and author’s exact words are viewed in the Cited
Ref box. All mentions of the cited reference will enlarge. After selecting
desired cited reference, click “View in-text mention” to explore.

This additional information

helps you decide if you’d
like to read the full-text at
the publisher’s site.
Navigate among the in-text mentions
to view the other cited references
nearby that are likely related.
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Sesión A5 – Navegar por la red de citas

• Los beneficios de la indexación de citas

• Identificar documentos altamente citados
• Crear y analizar un informe de citas
• Descubrir las citas de cualquier trabajo
• Filtrar por Citation Topics
• Explorar las referencias citadas enriquecidas
• Utilizar la clasificación de las citas

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Using citation classification to know why
an article has been cited

• Using the citation classifications that enrich cited

references, you can see whether citing articles
referenced a paper as background or basis, discussed
it in more detail, or presented supporting or differing
results.
• Citation classifications are available from recently
published citing articles
• That is why the number of articles classified may be
less that the total number of citing articles.
• Also, note that each item may mention this source
article multiple times, and each mention is classified
by the purpose of the citation

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 Use citation • When you click on the citing items assigned to a specific
classification, you will see the citing articles and each in-text
classification to know mention associated with the selected classification.
why an article • Each in-text mention will include a brief extract of the author’s
has been cited exact words used when citing this source.

• Appears for documents indexed from 2021

• To date, citation context data is available for articles
from over 75% of journals in the Web of Science Core
Collection, and this coverage will continue to expand.
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