Journal Citation Reports provides total cites, Journal Impact Factor, 5-Year Impact Factor, Immediacy Index, Number of Articles, Eigenfactor Score, and Article Influence Score.
The Journal Impact Factor is a way to measure the relative impact of a particular journal within its field, based on the average number of times an article published will be cited in the near future, which is calculated like this:
It also displays the Eigenfactor: The value of the Eigenfactor is similar to the Journal Impact Factor or the 5-year Journal Impact Factor. Unlike those, the Eigenfactor assigns weight or value to each earned citation, according to the citedness of the citing journal. Consider two journals: Journal A is highly cited; Journal B is poorly cited. Cites coming from Journal A are given greater weight when the Eigenfactors for journals B-Z are being calculated and cites from Journal B are given less weight when calculating Eigenfactors for journals A & C-Z. (from Clarivate)
1. Go to Web of Science, logging in if necessary.
2. In the upper right hand corner, click on the menu. Navigate to Journal Citation Reports.
3. From this screen, you can search for a specific journal, or browse. Click on Browse Categories.
4. Navigate to Clinical Medicine, then Emergency Medicine (or substitute your preferred categories), and then select a group of journals.
5. Check the boxes next to two journals you would like to compare, and then click Compare to generate a report.
With each article or conference paper indexed in Web of Science, you can get a Times Cited count, the number of times the paper was cited by other works indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (which includes the Conference Proceedings and Book Citation Indexes). From Times Cited, you can link out to see the citing works.
You can analyze any set of citing papers to find out more about who cited your work. From Analyze Results, you can generate treemaps, bar graphs, and text-delimited files. The treemap/bar graph visualization allow for up to 25 results, and the text-delimited file allows for up to 500 results.
1. Navigate to Web of Science, logging in if necessary.
2. From the home page, use the Documents search to find your article.
3. Click on the Citations number in the document record to see a list of citing articles.
4. From the list of citing articles, click on Analyze Results.
5. You can change the dropdowns and options to complete your analysis. You can also Download the results.
With a Web of Science account, you can create citation alerts to be notified when an article has been cited.
1. Navigate to Web of Science, logging in to Hofstra or Northwell as needed.
2. In the upper right hand corner, click on Sign In to sign in to your Web of Science account. If you do not have a Web of Science account, create one now - this is separate from your Hofstra or Northwell credentials.
3. From the Web of Science homepage, use the Documents Search to search for the article you would like to set an alert on.
4. Click on the record in the results to navigate to the document details page.
5. In the upper righthand corner of the record, click on Create Citation Alert.
If you would like help creating metrics reports for a researcher, lab group or unit, have questions about metrics or accessing the tools in this guide, or would like guidance on metrics not discussed in this guide, please contact:
Lena Bohman, Data Services and Research Impact Librarian, lena.g.bohman@hofstra.edu
Through creating a citation report, you can view author level citation metrics. Web of Science can also natively create data visualizations from citation metrics, which can be exported and reused.
1. Navigate to Web of Science, signing in with your Hofstra or Northwell credentials as necessary.
2. From the home page, use the Documents search. In the dropdown on the left-hand side, change to an Author search.
3. Run a search for your author name(s).
4. In the results screen, click on Citation Report (to the right of the search bar).
From here, you can further clean the data, analyze the results, or export the report.
Cited Reference Searching is another way to find citing works in Web of Science beyond what shows up in the Times Cited list. Instead of searching for an article and then viewing the cited references from the Times Cited count, you search for any references to your work in the cited reference lists of all the works indexed in Web of Science. For the search, you usually enter an author (first author is recommended) and the year the work was published, along with the title of the publication if the search needs to be narrowed. If the article was published in one year, but added to Web of Science the next, search on years.
1. Navigate to Web of Science, logging in to Hofstra or Northwell as needed.
2. In the search page, go to the Documents Search tab, then select the Cited References option.
3. Fill out your search terms: enter in the author, year, and, if needed, title or journal title. Run the search.
4. Select results you are interested in, then click See Results
5. From the results page, you can perform analysis or export your results.
- For the time period identified, the article was cited enough to place it in the top 1% of articles for its given field and publication year. This data comes from Essential Science Indicators, which uses 22 broad subject fields. 
- For the two month period identified, this paper, published in the last 2 years, was cited enough to place it in the top 0.1% of articles for that field and publication year.Getting a profile in Web of Science allows you to:
You can populate your Web of Science profile using your ORCID profile. Refer to the Clarivate tutorial below for steps on creating your Researcher Profile.
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