Online Search of Journals
Journal impact factor
It gives the average number of citations to articles in a particular journal calculated for
two years.
The 2007,Journal Citation Reports (JCR) impact factors (released in 2008) were
calculated as follows
H-index
• The h-index is an author-level metric that
attempts to measure both the productivity and
citation impact of the publications of a
scientist or scholar.
• The index is based on the set of the scientist's
most cited papers and the number of citations
that they have received in other publications
• For example, if an author has 10 published
articles, 5 of which have been cited 5 times or
more, this gives an H-index of 5.
Plagiarism
Plagiarism is
• turning in someone else’s work as your own
• copying words or ideas from someone else without
giving credit
• failing to put a quotation in quotation marks
• giving incorrect information about the source of a
quotation
• changing words but copying the sentence structure
of a source without giving credit
• copying so many words or ideas from a source that it
makes up the majority of your work, whether you
give credit or not (see our section on “fair use” rules)
According to theMerriam-Webster OnLine
Dictionary, to “plagiarize” means
1) to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of
another) as one's own
2) to use (another's production) without
crediting the source
3) to commit literary theft
4) to present as new and original an idea or
product derived from an existing source.
Types of Plagiarism
I. SOURCES NOT CITED
1) “The Ghost Writer” - another’s work, word-for-word, as his or her own
2) “The Photocopy” - copies significant portions of text straight from a single
source, without alteration
3) “The Potluck Paper” - disguise plagiarism by copying from several different
sources.
4) “The Poor Disguise” - altered the paper’s appearance slightly by changing
key words and phrases.
5) “The Labor of Laziness”- paraphrase most of the paper from other sources
and make it all fit together
6) “The Self-Stealer”- “borrows” generously from his or her previous work.
II. SOURCES CITED (but still plagiarized!)
1) “The Forgotten Footnote”
2) “The Misinformer”
3) “The Too-Perfect Paraphrase”
4) “The Resourceful Citer”
5) “The Perfect Crime”
Citation
A “citation” is the way you tell your readers that certain material in your
work came from another source
• Citations are extremely helpful to anyone who wants
to find out more about your ideas and where they
came from.
• Not all sources are good or right – your own ideas
may often be more accurate or interesting than
those of your sources. Proper citation will keep you
from taking the rap for someone else’s bad ideas.
• Citing sources shows the amount of research you’ve
done.
• Citing sources strengthens your work by lending
outside support to your ideas
The following situations almost always
require citation:
• Whenever you use quotes
• Whenever you paraphrase
• Whenever you use an idea that someone
else has already expressed
• Whenever you make specific reference to
the work of another
• Whenever someone else’s work has been
critical in developing your own ideas.
Preventing Plagiarism – Student
Resources
A. Consult with your instructor
B. Plan your paper
C. Take Effective Notes
D. When in doubt, cite sources
E. Make it clear who said what
F. Know how to Paraphrase:
G. Evaluate Your Sources
SciFinder (ACS)
SciFinder Scholar features:
• Exploring by Chemical Structure (including substructures, with
SSM),Reaction Structure, Research Topic, Author Name,
Company Name or Organization, and more.
• Removal of duplicate references
• Sorting, analyzing, and refining answer sets
• Citation searching and linking
• Linking from substance answers to detailed records,
references, 3D models, commercial sources, regulatory
information, and reactions
• Saving and printing results
• Accessing full-text documents via the ChemPort®
ConnectionSM
• Browsing tables of contents of scientific journals
• Linking to Internet resources
Information you can find with SciFinder Scholar includes
• Document Information
- Title
- Author/inventor
- Company name/corporate source/patent assignee
- Publication year
- Source, publication, date, publisher, volume, issue, pagination,
CODEN, ISSN
- Patent identification, including patent, application, priority, and
patent family information
- Abstract
- Indexing
- Supplementary terms
- Citations
- Substances and reactions discussed within the document
• Substance Information
- Chemical names
- CAS Registry Numbers®
- Molecular formulas
- Structure diagrams
- Sequence information, including GenBank® and patent annotations
- Property data
- Commercial source information from chemical substance
suppliercatalogs
- Regulatory information
- Editor notes
- Documents in which the substance is referenced
- Reactions in which the substance participates
- A list of other publicly available databases from the STN online
servicein which additional information related to the substance may be
located
• Reaction Information
- Reaction diagrams, including reactants, reagents,
products, catalysts, solvents, and conditions
- Documents in which the reaction is referenced
- Additional reactions, references, substance details,
commercial sources, and regulatory information
for all reaction participants
- View experimental conditions (e.g., time,
temperature, pressure, pH),when reported, for
reactions from 2003 to the present
- See mixture ratios associated with product yields
- View all isomers in a reaction
STN – Scientific and Technical
Networks - The choice of patent
experts
(Thomson Reuters)
• an information service in the field of research
and patent information
• based on firms of chemistry, biotechnology, and
pharmaceuticals
• Connecting patent offices, lawyers and research
institutions
ASAP Alerts (ACS)
• Daily or weekly email alerts when
individual articles (Articles ASAPSM) from
the journal(s) are selected are released on
the web.
• Table of Contents (TOC) Alerts
• Email alerts with the Table of Contents for
specific issues on the day the complete
issue is posted to the web.
Google Scholar
• a simple way for authors to keep track of
citations to their articles.
• can check who is citing your publications,
graph citations over time, and compute
several citation metrics.
• can also make your profile public, so that it
may appear in Google Scholar results when
people search for your name.
• quick to set up and simple to maintain
• computed and updated automatically.
Scopus (Elsevier)
- the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed
literature
- scientific journals, books and conference proceedings.
- in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and
arts and humanities.
1. used by more than 3,000 academic, government and corporate
institutions.
2. designed to serve the information needs of researchers,
educators, students, administrators and librarians
3. track key research, identify key opinion leaders and stay ahead
of your competition.
4. provides Ranking Organizations with a reliable and
comprehensive source for research performance data and
analytics.
5. updated daily rather than just weekly.
ChemPort (CAS)
ChemPort Connection links users of
• SciFinder
• SciFinder Scholar
• STN on the Web
• STN Express
• STN Easy
ChemPort Reference Linking, can link within an e-journal to view its
title, authors, source, and abstract.
3 types of searches using the search box:
• Publisher Name Search
matches full or partial publisher name
• Journal Title Search
matches full or partial journal title
• ISSN/CODEN Search
matches full or partial ISSNs/CODENs associated with a journal
(current and historically)
Springer
- online delivery platform,
- easy access to millions of STM resources,
- publishing the world’s leading scholars,
- as books, journals, reference works, protocols and
databases.
Highlights
1. Streamlined search and relevant results
2. Library Management System Integration
3. Flexible Access
4. Alerts
5. Purchasing and Licensing
Science Direct
• Elsevier’s leading information solution for
researchers.
• leading platform of peer-reviewed
scholarly literature
