Answered - SSCI 'CO' Field Question

[Clemens, Rachael]

Thanks for the speedy responses - I have received several
answers/suggestions to my questions below - very impressive for a Friday
afternoon!

 

-Rachael

 

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From: Clemens, Rachael 
Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 2:41 PM
To: 'SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU'
Subject: SSCI 'CO' Field Question

 

Good afternoon

 

A humble bibliometrics fan with a question about a certain field in
SSCI.  

 

Eight years ago using Dialog access to SSCI, I was able to identify
which countries were most frequently represented in the literature of
Library & Information Science.  I did this by:

 

*       Using JCR - identify the top 10 journal titles in the category
called "Library & Information Science" 
*       Using SSCI - identify the "Geographic Location" (particular
field in each record) for each article - according to SSCI this
corresponded to the primary author's self-reported country 

 

In trying to replicate this search now I encounter two problems:

 

1.      JCR doesn't seem to have a category called "Library &
Information Science" anymore.  Am I just missing this?  I'm not sure how
to identify this collection of journals - except through my own
subjective selection of titles 

 

2.      Using SSCI through Web of Science - I am unable to see the "CO"
(Country of Origin - seems to have replaced Geographic Location) field
in the full record.  I know in the advanced search, there is an option
to limit to particular countries - but I want to be able to display the
CO field for a list of records - just as you would view the author or
source field for each record. 

 

 

Does anyone on the list have an answer/insight to either of these
issues?  

 

Many thanks

-Rachael

 

 

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Rachael Green Clemens

Distance Education Librarian

Pollak Library

California State University Fullerton

714.278.7543

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