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Citation Research and Impact Metrics: Collaboration for Authors

Index

Introduction to:
Article Assessments
Author Assessments
Country Assessments
Journal Rankings

Metrics:
Altmetric Score

Citation Benchmarking
Citation Counts for: 
---Articles
---Authors
---Countries
Citation Distribution, see Citation Benchmarking
CiteScore 
Collaboration

Eigenfactor Score, see Other Journal Rankings
ERIH Plus, see Other Journal Rankings

Field-weighted citation impact (FWCI), see Citation Benchmarking
FWCI, see Citation Benchmarking

Google Scholar (Journal) Metrics, see Other Journal Rankings

Harzing, see Other Journal Rankings
Hirsch-index
h-index

iCite for:
---Articles, see Citation Benchmarking
---Authors

JIF
Journal Impact Factor

NIH ranking, see iCite

Publish or Perish software, see Citation Counts for Authors: Other Sources

RCR, see iCite
Relative Citation Ratio, see iCite

Scimago Country Rank (SCR)
Scimago Journal Rank, see CiteScore 
SJR, see CiteScore
SNIP, see CiteScore​
​Source Normalized Impact per Paper, see CiteScore

Usage Counts

What You Need to Know

Collaboration can be determined both by looking at co-authors as well as the organizations of those co-authors.  

 

Important Points: 

  • Experts.ASU is the only database that has collected publications by the author so that the searcher does not have to do it manually, however, check the publication list to make sure it includes the appropriate publications and is not missing any.  The publications list in this database cannot be adjusted, so if not complete, do not use this database.
     
  • Searching by author name is challenging.  Even if the author is consistent with exactly how his name is listed on each document, a database's policy may change the author's name (ex., using initials instead of spelling out the full first and middle names.) Use the database's HELP file for author searching to learn the specific policies of the database.  Make sure that you have sufficiently covered all possible variants of the authors name in each database you use.   For common names, adding in the author's organization/institution to the search generally helps, however, there may be situations when two or more people with the same name are employed by the same organization; in some cases, manually going through a results list to eliminate unwanted documents may be necessary.  
     

Best Uses: 

  • Determining who's working with whom.

Instructions

Data contained in Experts.ASU is derived from Elsevier's Scopus database.  As the name implies, only data for ASU faculty is available; for authors not in Experts.ASU, use the Scopus database to obtain collaboration information.   

  1. Go to Experts.ASU
  2. In the center of the screen change the search field from "Everything" to "Profiles" and in the search box put the ASU faculty member's name. 


     
  3. On the results page, you should see only the entry for that person.  Click on the person's name in the entry's box. 



     
  4. On the person's profile screen, click on "Network" within the gray navigation bar.



     
  5.  On the network page you may change the view to visualization (image of connections), map (where the collaborators are located), profiles (information about the person) and research unit (information about the unit).   For profiles and research units only  the ASU data is clickable (profiles and unit information outside of ASU is not available.)

The Experts.ASU database has collaboration information (derived from Scopus data) available for ASU faculty.   Use the Scopus database for authors not in Experts.ASU or if you want to use different parameters for the search. 

The Scopus database covers some conference proceedings and books/book chapters in addition to journal articles and all these document types, unless you specify differently, will be in the results list.   Originally Scopus only covered documents from 1996 to the present, however they are now updating pre-1996 cited references going back to 1970; consequently authors with works published from 1970-1995 may see more of the publications covered over time. 

  1. Go to Scopus
  2. Using an author search, find all the publications in the database for an individual. 

    Recommended search strategy:
    lastname firstinitial   as  author
    AND arizona state university  as   affiliation name    (or whatever organization the author is affiliated with)


     
  3. On the results list page, use the "Year" limit if appropriate, after the results list refreshes, select All and then click on "Analyze Search Results".



     
  4. On the analysis page, click on either the "Author" or "Affiliation" tab to see a bar chart.  You may also use the "Export" link near the top right of the screen to download the data to a spreadsheet (csv file) or the chart as zip file.

     

The collaboration data from the Web of Science database is calculated only from journal articles and does not include conference papers, books or book chapters. 

  • Using an author search, find all the publications in the database for an individual. 

    Recommended search strategy:
    lastname firstinitial*   as  author
    AND arizona state university  as   organization-enhanced (or the appropriate organization for authors outside of ASU)

    You may also limit to specific years, if desired.



     
  • At the upper corner of the results list, click on "Analyze Results"



     
  • Select either "Author" or "Organization-Enhanced" depending on what you want to analyze, how many items you want in the report, how many results you want to see, the minimum record count, and whether you want the list from highest to lowest (record count) or in alphabetical order (selected field). 



     
  • Once the table displays, you have the option to save the table to a text file. You may also use the checkboxes in the left-hand column to view or exclude specific records.

Although other databases do not have the report generation capabilities of Experts.ASU, Scopus, or Web of Science, it is possible to extract some collaboration data from many of the indexing and abstracting services available via the ASU Library.  

  1.  Search for the author, making sure your searches cover all possible variant forms of the name. 
  2. From the results list page, look in the left-hand column for whatever analysis, limits, or refine features are offered (a few databases use the right-hand column instead of the left). 
  3. If there is an author category, the options underneath that heading will be a listing of the authors found in the results set. These are the co-authors of all the papers in the results set, in other words, these are the people that your author is collaborating with. The listing will usually be from highest to lowest with the number of results listed after the name. 
  4. Also check to see if the left-hand column has a heading for institution, organization or affiliation.  These will be the organizations that the co-authors are affiliated with. As with the authors, these will usually be listed from highest to lowest with the number of results listed after the name. 
  5. You many select a specific author(s) or organization(s) to reduce the list to just the results associated with them.  OR you may cut and paste the data from the left-hand column into a word document or spreadsheet to create a report. 
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