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Evaluate the relevance and impact of the published research on other studies with the new Web of Science DB features!

Evaluate the relevance and impact of the published research on other studies with the new Web of Science DB features!

February 22, 2023

VILNIUS TECH community members can use Web of Science (WoS) database (DB) and additional analysis tools. Although bibliographic DBs are usually used for journal evaluation and literature search purposes, citation context information newly available in WoS DB enables to additionally assess the significance and impact of published research and other literature sources on other published studies.

Now a part of cited references listed in WoS indexed publications are available with additional information indicating the purpose, context and the part of the publication where the reference has been mentioned.

This additional information is provided for the publications classified by a new citation context scheme, aiming to help assess the intents of the authors using these literature sources.

Background – previously published research that orients the study published in the analyzed publication within a scholarly area.
Basis – references that report the data sets, methods, concepts and ideas that the author was using for his/her work directly or on which the work was based.
Support – references which have similar results to the ones published in the analyzed publication. This may also refer to similarities in methodology or in some cases replication of results.
Differ – references which reports differing results compared to the ones published in the analyzed publication. This may also refer to differences in methodology or differences in sample sizes, affecting results.
Discuss – references allowing the study published in the analyzed publication to be discussed in more details and/or broader context.

Publications whose sources cited in the bibliography are provided with citation context information are marked with the Enriched Cited References tag both in the publication lists and on the publication page itself.

Even more detailed information on the cited references listed in the Enriched Cited References tagged publication is provided in the dot-plot diagram, where every dot represents the cited reference, oriented according to the citing intent and structural place in the text. The elements of the diagram are interactive and each dot leads to the cited source in the list along with an indication of a structural part of the publication where the source was cited and the specific passage of the text mentioning the source.

WoS DB allows to assess not only the purpose and the place of the literature sources mentioned in the publication, but also to evaluate the impact of the particular publication made on other studies.

If a publication was at least once cited by other WoS indexed publications classified by the new citation context scheme, on the right hand side on the publications page the Citing items by classification graph is displayed. This graph is also interactive and clicking on any of its elements redirects to the list of the corresponding citing publications, where below the entry of every publication not only a structural part of the citing source where the analyzed publication was cited, but also a specific passage of the text mentioning the publication, are indicated.

The more detailed descriptions of these new and other WoS DB features and tools are available at VILNIUS TECH Library’s webpage Scientific Communication section Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics). And many useful information on how to find and evaluate journals using WoS DB and other tools is provided in the webpage section Journal Selection for Publishing.