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- 1. Clarivate Analytics Content Selection Process (October 2018) Tom Ciavarella Manager, Publisher Relations tom.ciavarella@clarivate.com @tomciav
- 2. 2 Agenda Web of Science Content Selection Journals Books and Conferences Indexing and Content Delivery Questions 01 02 03 04 05
- 3. Web of Science Content Selection Journals
- 4. 4 Web of Science Regional Citation Indexes Chinese Science CitationIndex KoreanJournal Database RussianScience CitationIndex SCiELO(Brazil) EmergingSources Citation Index Importantresearchthathas the potential forhighimpact Science CitationIndexExpanded Social SciencesCitationIndex Arts & HumanitiesCitation Index SpecialistIndexes BIOSISCitationIndex Zoological Record INSPEC CAB Abstracts FSTA Medline
- 5. 5 The Web of Science Core Collection The Web of Science Core Collection is at the heart of the Web of Science platform https://clarivate.com/essays/evaluation-criteria-web-science-core-collection-journals/ Web of Science Core Collection Curated by an expert team of in-house editors Evaluation Lose quality ESCI AHCISSCISCIE Quality criteria BKCI CPCI Quality criteria Flagships Gain impact Lose impact The Web of Science Core Collection is a trusted, high-quality “white list” of journals, books and conference proceedings
- 6. 6 The Web of Science Core Collection Core Collection vs. Flagship There is a single set of criteria that we use to evaluatejournals– these are dividedinto ‘quality’and ‘citationimpact’ criteria. Journals that meet the ‘quality’ criteria can be indexed in the WoS Core Collection.Journals that meet the additional ‘citation impact’ criteria can enter the flagship collections. Our collectionsare dynamic and subject to continuouscurationto ensure journalsare in the appropriatecollection. SCIE,SSCI, AHCI journals SCIE,SSCI, AHCI journals WoS Core Collection Allows search and discovery of a trusted set of titles with comprehensive coverage in terms of subject, region, and medium (journals, books, proceedings) Flagship (the center of the Core Collection) Contain the journals demonstrating the most impact; WoS users can enable searches to be restricted to these titles
- 7. Web of Science Content Selection Books & Conferences
- 8. 8 Book Citation Index – Content to Submit • Scholarly books within all disciplines • Both single-authored and multi-authored • Monographs or Books-in-Series • English and non-English; mustuse the Roman alphabet • Must be fully referenced – authors must appropriately cite sources
- 9. 9 Book Citation Index - Exclusions BkCI does not accept: • Undergraduate textbooks • Reference books, encyclopedias, atlases • Bibliographies • Extended abstracts • Abstract-only publications • Popular science • Fiction, drama, poetry • Books without cited references • Books not published in the current and previous 5 years
- 10. 10 Book Citation Index - Languages In addition to English, BkCI indexes books published in: Basque Bulgarian Catalan Croatian Czech Danish Dutch Estonian Finnish French Galician German Hungarian Irish Italian Latin Latvian Lithuanian Macedonian Norwegian Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Serbian Slovakian Slovenian Spanish Swedish Ukrainian
- 11. 11 ConferenceProceedings Citation Index • Coverage 1990 to present; cited references from 1999 • Two editions (Science; Social Science & Humanities) – Includes proceedings from covered journals and from conference-specific publications • Selection range: current year + previous 4 years – Special expansion project in 2017 goes back 10 years for select content based on customer feedback
- 13. 13 How ClarivateIndexes • Acquisition of content – Publishers deliver content via: • FTP • IP access, single sign on (SSO), or username/password access • Open Access • Clarivate is a PDF-first workflow – XML-first workflows are being implemented
- 14. 14 How ClarivateIndexes – XML-First Initiative • Requirements for analysis – Current DTD (Document Type Definition) – Samples of full-text XML and accompanying PDFs – Samples of metadata(eg, Headers & References, Abstract) – Automateddeposits to designated FTP for testing, mapping, and eventual onboarding for processing • XML indexing follows the standards of PDF indexing – Full-text XML will not be displayed in Web of Science
- 15. Questions? Contact Publisher Relations publisher.relations@clarivate.com tom.ciavarella@clarivate.com http://clarivate.com/publisher-relations +1 408-454-4209 +1 855-349-0466(US toll free)