Gordon Library

A special vendor-led training will be offered Wed. Feb. 3. Register now for training sessions led by Don Sechler, Manager, Customer Education, Scientific & Scholarly Research, Thomson Reuters.

ISI Web of Knowledge & Web of Science Cited Reference Search
February 3, 2010, 1:30pm – 2:30pm

This vendor-led workshop introduces Web of Knowledge and cited research searching. Cited reference searching allows researchers to:

• travel forward in time from a published work and view citations that reference back to an original source understand impact of a work as indicated by subsequent citations by other scholars in the field
• track development of a theory over the years
• identify core researchers in a field

New features include citation mapping and analysis.

Assessing Research Impact with Journal Citation Reports
February 3, 2010, 3:00pm – 4:00pm

Within Web of Knowledge WPI researchers can access Journal Citation Reports (JCR®) which is used to generate scholarly journal rankings for specific titles or by disclipine. ISI has recently added additional metrics such as: 5-Year Impact Factor, Eigenfactor™ Score and the Article Influence™ Score, an adjusted Impact Factor which excludes self-citations. Attend this workshop to learn about these metrics and more.