Citation and content tracking



Citation and content trackingAbout the approachTracking the citations or peer reviewed and grey literature can be one way of quantifying the reach of particular outputs and provide insight into the intermediary groups that are passing on knowledge and information. Using the right tools to collect the right information There are a number of commercial products on the market that will be conduct citation and content tracking. These tools are often costly and produce information that is beyond KNOWFOR requirements. The table below provides an overview of three free (or standard data-base subscription) on-line services that will provide insightful information regarding KNOWFOR knowledge products. Attachment 4.1 provides templates to track the information collected. ToolOverviewAdvantagesDisadvantagesCostGoogle Scholar Citations You can check who has citing your publications, graph citations over time, and compute several citation metrics. Add groups of related articles, not just one article at a time; and your citation metrics are computed and updated automatically as Google Scholar finds new citations to your work on the web. You can choose to have your list of articles updated automatically or review the updates yourself, or to manually update your articles at any time.Very simple and easy to set up and maintain. A multidisciplinary index covering virtually all sciences and disciplines and not limited to a single language, country, field or disciplineGoogle Scholar is not restricted to journal articles – preprints, technical reports, theses, dissertations, some government reports/policy documents and conference proceedings are also indexedIt is able to recognize variant forms of citations.It currently has a language bias. Google Scholar does not index complex script languages, such as Persian, Arabic, Chinese, and Japanese. It indexes only European languages.It uses author initials, so several different authors with the same last name and initials cannot be differentiated.Many scholarly periodicals and magazines are not indexed.FreeWeb of Science Allows you to discover a paper’s influence by identifying to all the papers contained in Web of Science in which it has been cited. Save a reference and receive email alerts when the reference is cited. Includes a citation report function that captures citation activity and identifies citation trends graphically within and across all citation resources on Web of Science. View vital citation information for an individual or an institution, such as sums of Times Cited, average citations per item and year, number of results found, and the h-index.Citation Mapping creates a visual representation of citation relationships. Track an article’s cited and citing references through two generations to discover an article’s wider relationships.Integrates with InCites a citation-based research evaluation tool that allows in depth analysis of citation data and benchmarking of output against local, regional and global peersIncludes citations from China as well as European languages. Limited to journals (open and non-open access) and conference proceedings. No grey literature. Free through any University online library database Tynt Identifies when someone has copy-pasted text from your site to another website, blog or social media site by inserting a link after the copied text. Provides live statistics (integrated with Google Analytics) on what text is being copied from your website and where it is ending up. Only works with text that is published in a webpage/blog post (text published in a PDF will not be tracked). Similarly, it will not work with text that is copied into a PDF file – only text that ends up in a new web page or blog post. The automatically generated attribution link can be removed by the user.Free ................
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