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h-Index GuideWelch Medical Library

If you have any questions, please contact your departmentallibrarian: http://welch.jhmi.edu/liaison/index.html

Last Updated October, 2009

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Table of Contents

h-Index Summary22

SCOPUS

Author Search..4

Adding a Second Name........5

Finding h-Index...7

Removing Unrelated Articles....8

h-Index Graphs...9

Exporting h-Index Data to Microsoft Excel10

Web of Science

Author Search12

Adding a Second Name...15

Finding h-Index.16

Removing Unrelated Articles..17

Exporting h-Index Data to Microsoft Excel...18

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SCOPUS: Author Search

1. Start with Author Search

2. Enter your Authors name, Affilitaion, andchange subject area.

3. Click

4. You can further refine your results on thesubsequent page.

4.

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SCOPUS: Adding a Second Name

5. After you have entered your first author, clickthe Advanced Search tab.

6. Click Add to search: Author name or Affiliation

7. A pop up box will appear that is a secondauthor search box. Enter your second name in it

and click

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8. Choose the authors from the resultinglist by checking the boxes next to the

names. And click

9. You will see that your second authorhas been added to your advanced

search box.

*Please note that eth default is to add asecond author with an AND so you willneed to change that to an OR.

10. Click

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SCOPUS: Finding h-Index

11. Once you have narrowed down your results and located the correct author, check the box next to the author and click

12. From the resulting page you can expand the years included in the view and see the h-Index score.

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SCOPUS: Removing Unrelated Articles

13. If there are articles included that your author has not written, you can delete them by selecting them and clicking

* Deleting items may reduce the score.

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SCOPUS: h-Index Graphs

14. To see results in graph format, click the h-graph icon.

There are three kinds of graphs: h-Graph, Articles Published, and Citations. Each graph also hasthat allows you to view the raw data.

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SCOPUS: Exporting h-Index Data to Microsoft Excel

15. To export result to excel, click

16. Click

17. Select Open with MicrosoftExcel

18. Click

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*Your excel sheet has been created

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Web of Science: Author Search

1. Click the Author Finder link.

2. Type in the last name, first initial and middle initial of the author. Click

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3. Select the author namesfrom the list that match theperson you aresearching on.Click

4. Select all subject categoriesthat apply to an author's bodyof work.Click

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5. Select all institutions that apply. *Be sure to check all possible divisions, spellings, and previous institutions. Click

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Web of Science: Adding a Second Name

If you need to look up more than one name, like in the case

of someone getting married and changing their last name

6. Follow the above steps 1-3. After you have checked the

correct first author name variant, click

7. Enter the second name and click

8. Proceed with Step 4.

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Web of Science: Finding h-Index

9. Click

10. The H-index will be displayed.

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Web of Science: Removing Unrelated Articles

11. To remove papers that do notbelong to your authors, check the boxesnext to them.

12. Click

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Web of Science: Exporting h-Index Data to Microsoft Excel

13. Scroll to the bottom of the Citation Report page.

14. Enter the total number of records.

15. Click

16. Select Save File.

17. Click

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18. Open Microsoft Excel.

19. Go to Data tab

20. Choose

21. Choose

22. Click on

savedrecs file.

23.Click

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24. Select Delimited and click

25. Select Tab, Semicolon, Comma, and Space.

26. Click

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27. Select General

28. Click

29. Click

Note: h-Index score has to be entered into excel sheet by hand.

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