silent changes in WoS

Thu Feb 5 11:14:23 EST 2009

I guess, that is another kind of question. The explanation of this effect
exists, it is here

http://images.isiknowledge.com/WOK45/help/WOS/hcr_times_cited.html

Kind regards,
Vladimir

Vladimir Pislyakov 
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On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 10:59:30 -0500, Pikas, Christina K.
<Christina.Pikas at JHUAPL.EDU> wrote:

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>Ok - I'm confused.
>
>I look at a paper in WoS and it's got, say, 100 citations.  When I list the
citing papers, only like 80 are in the list.  It turns out that the other 20
citations came from proceedings papers, I guess, and my institution does not
subscribe to this proceedings citation thingy.  So these are mystery
citations.... Actually, if I understood this a little better, I'd probably
say what the impact is:  none or huge?
>
>Christina
>
>
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>>From what I can see, the number of citable items doesn't change;
proceedings papers are now being added to the numbers of articles and
reviews. So the net effect on JCR metrics should be neutral.
>
>Iain
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>Dear Vladimir,
>
>this is not only an ususual thing, but a very sensititive issue!
>The value of many indicators based on number of articles (like Impact
>Factor, etc) may then change abruptly!!!
>
>Kind regards,
>Juan
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>Vladimir Pislyakov schrieb:
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>> Dear Iain,
>>
>> Thank you, I tried to test it on several years and this method seems to
>> produce results very close to the figures obtained earlier. It means that in
>> October 2008 about 12% of "Articles" changed their document type to
>> "Proceedings Paper", unusual thing.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Vladimir
>>
>> Vladimir Pislyakov
>> Assistant Director for Electronic Resources Management
>> Higher School of Economics Library
>> 20 Myasnitskaya street
>> Moscow, 101000
>> Russia
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>> On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 12:40:29 +0000, Craig, Iain - Oxford
>> <iain.craig at WILEY.COM> wrote:
>>
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>>> Dear Vladimir
>>>
>>> If you extend your search to include document type = proceedings papers,
>> you should recover your missing papers.
>>> With best wishes
>>>
>>> Iain
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>>> Dear colleagues,
>>>
>>> Have anyone noticed changes of the publication indicators in the Web of
>>> Science databases when they transformed "ISI Proceedings" into "Conference
>>> Proceedings Citation Index" (now a part of the WoS)?
>>>
>>> For example. Before this transformation, in September 2008, we counted
>>> number of Russian papers of the type "Article" published in 2006 (in SCIE
>>> and SSCI databases). It was 23367. After that, in November (transformation
>>> of the Proceeedings took place in the middle of October) the same search
>>> produced a much smaller figure. Now the same search string
>>>
>>> (CU=Russia) AND (PY=2006) AND Document Type=(Article)
>>>
>>> produces just 20601 documents.
>>>
>>> It may be suggested that some of the documents have changed their "Document
>>> Type" field in the process of merging of new Proceedings Index, and so
>>> "Articles" got some other type.
>>>
>>> It is very sad for us, because every year we publish in print statistics on
>>> Russian publication output by document types and these changes result in the
>>> loss of coherence of our yearly data. Have someone else confronted these
>>> silent changes in WoS? Is there any way to overcome these inconsistencies?
>>> There is even no note on WoK platfrom regarding these changes.
>>>
>>> Vladimir Pislyakov
>>> Assistant Director for Electronic Resources Management
>>> Higher School of Economics Library
>>> 20 Myasnitskaya street
>>> Moscow, 101000
>>> Russia
>>> Tel.: +7 (495) 6213785
>>> Fax: +7 (495) 6287931
>>> E-mail: pislyakov at hse.ru
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