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Citation Searching and Bibliometric Measures: Citation Map

A discussion on topics such as the h-index, Eigenfactor, Impact Factor, Journal Citation Reports, and other tools.

Dr. Bartlett

Using ISI Web of Knowledge (Thomson Reuters), Dr. Bartlett, whose treatments have been used in Grey's Anatomy:

  • Sum of the Times Cited: 74
  • Average Citations per Item: 24.67
  • h-index: 2 [Bartlett has written two articles with at least 2 citations each.]

One of the First Citation Maps of Science

 

Citation Mapping

The citation mapping tool tracks an article’s cited and citing references through two generations, allowing researchers to visually discover an article’s wider relationships:

  • Go forward and backward in time to track citing and cited references

  • Color code, re-configure and organize your citation maps to discover trends in citation activity

  • Completely interactive!

  • Access via any Web of Science full record

Sample Citation Map

 Citation Map for article written by David Bartlett from Web of Science:

 

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Information Visualization

"If we can visually spot literature not directly related to one another but perhaps indirectly related, such topics may be good candidates for combination and knowledge synthesis" (Small, 1999).