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 Posted - 12/19/2007 : 11:24:22
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HistCite is designed to analyze and visualize bibliographies obtained from the Thomson Scientific Web of Science (WOS). A “source journal” is a journal that is covered by WOS for its database that includes published items from the sciences, the social sciences, and the arts and humanities. Currently, WOS covers over 9,000 journals. The items published in these journals that are used in the WOS database are called “source items.” Source items are primarily articles, but may also include substantive editorials, letters, abstracts, correction notes, reviews, etc. It is from the source items that the bibliographic information (author, journal, title, volume, page, etc.) and ancillary data, such as author addresses, are obtained for entry into the WOS database.
From each source item processed into the WOS database, a bibliographic description of each document referenced by the author is extracted. These are called “cited references.” The presence of cited reference data in the WOS database is what allows HistCite to derive such measures as the Global Citation Score (GCS), Local Citation Score (LCS), Local Cited References (LCR), and Number of Cited References (NCR). The cited reference information in WOS also allows HistCite to create historiographs.
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drb
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Posted - 01/20/2008 : 15:24:40
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Hi,
I have to use NCBI - Pubmedline for my research. Does histcite work with that? it has more than 9000 journals.
secondly, i think i have understood little bit. but just had this question.
if I have to look upon all articles in Pubmed by a keyword and limiting it to author, year etc....histcite can give me a summary as it is designed. Right?
please let me know.
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Soren
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Posted - 01/23/2008 : 11:07:16
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No, you cannot use data from PubMed.
There are two problems.
1) the PubMed data is not in a format that HistCite can process. Solving this is a relatively easy task, however...
2) A more serious problem is that PubMed data does not include the cited reference list (or a times cited count) of the indexed articles. This is a key piece of data that HistCite uses in many aspects of its analysis. Without it, the amount of useful information that HistCite produces is very limited. |
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AmandaM
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Posted - 07/02/2009 : 14:22:38
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| I am also wondering about ways to use PubMed data in HistCite. I understand the problems with the lack of citation data in a PubMed record, but I'm wondering what you recommend to solve the format issue. I have tried 3 different methods for getting PubMed records to look like an export file from Web of Science, with varying degrees (but not complete) success. What's the secret? |
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Soren
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Posted - 07/07/2009 : 10:57:53
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Amanda,
What methods have you tried?
I have not actually done this before, so I cannot say exactly what would work.
One idea would be to import the Pubmed data into a reference manager program like Reference Manager or Procite. Then export the data into ISI tagged format.
Another idea would be to have a computer science student create a program to convert the format.
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What are source items and cited references?
