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H-Index Using Web of Science, SCOPUS, and Google Scholar

Describes an H-index and instructions on formulating one using Web of Science, SCOPUS, and Google Scholar.

H-Index Using Web of Science

Please note: This resource is only available to current UTD students, staff and faculty.

 

  1. Connect to the Web of Science database  https://libproxy.utdallas.edu/login?url=http://www.isiknowledge.com/

    You will be taken to the default Web of Science Documents search:
    Web of Science default search screen.
     
  2. The most effective search is by author. First, change the default search setting from “All Fields” to “Author.” Enter the last name, a space, and the first initial of the first name followed by an asterisk, Ex. Oldow j*.   

    If you are sure that the author is always cited/published with the middle initial, then enter it as Oldow js*. Keep in mind that if you put in the middle initial, it will not find any matches where only the first initial (“j”)  is used. 

    If the name is unique enough, you can use the last name only, Ex. Oldow*. In this final example, Web of Science will find all of the articles by any author with the last name Oldow. 

    To build a search based on multiple versions of an author’s name or multiple authors, scroll down to Step 5 on creating a Marked List.
  3. When searching by author, make sure that you change the dropdown option to Author:
    Author search screen.
     
  4. Once the results are retrieved for the author, click Create Citation Report in the upper right corner:
    Create Citation Report button.

     

  5. On the Citation Report page, displayed are the number of publications by the author (left), number of articles that cite the author (with the option to exclude self-citations), number of times the author is cited (with the option to exclude self-citations), and the h-index. Beneath those numbers is a graph depicting how often the author has been cited and how often they have published over time (times cited vs. publications released):

    Depiction of the Citation Report screen: publications, citing articles, times cited, and h-index.

     
  6. Beneath the graphs, the user may click the minus icon "-" to remove any items from the Citation Report they wish to exclude and then recalculate the h-index:
    Click the minus sign "-" to remove unwanted documents from a list.
     
  7. If the user wishes to build a list based on multiple versions of an author’s name or multiple authors, they can conduct multiple searches, each time using the Add to Marked List button between each search:
    Adding to a marked list.
     
  8. Once all citations are collected using the Add to Marked List feature, the user may click the Marked List icon in the upper left of the screen to retrieve a full list of all citations:
                                                                                Viewing a marked list.
     
  9. On the Marked List page of results, click on Citation Report to produce an h-index score based on all the items in the marked list:
                                                                                     Citation Report button.