09/11/2015
Correcting citations in the Web Of Science
It is annoying when due to a mistake in a reference, your citation does not get registered on the Web Of Science (WOS) properly. On the Science Survival blog:
http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/tips_for_juniors/increasing-your-h-index-by-reclaiming-misspelled-citations_3612
it is explained how to correct this. Basically, by sending a data correction report to Thompson. The website is:
http://ip-science.thomsonreuters.com/techsupport/datachange/
I guess you will need to have (institutional) access to the WOS.
Before, for each citing paper, one would have to fill in a web form. This takes some time, but when I did this, changes were implemented promptly, well within the eight-week timeframe they give themselves (in fact they did it in a few days).
Now, for correcting citations, an Excel template is provided where you add the title of the cited reference, its WOS number, the title of the citing reference and its WOS number. I added another column for the reference number in the citing paper, not sure whether they will find that useful or not. I will try to remember to update this post when I know if the latest corrections have been implemented correctly.
Apart from “claiming” your missing citations and so improving your citation index, I would suggest authors check their published papers when they enter the WOS and see if any references need correcting. The reliability of the database depends on it.
http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/tips_for_juniors/increasing-your-h-index-by-reclaiming-misspelled-citations_3612
it is explained how to correct this. Basically, by sending a data correction report to Thompson. The website is:
http://ip-science.thomsonreuters.com/techsupport/datachange/
I guess you will need to have (institutional) access to the WOS.
Before, for each citing paper, one would have to fill in a web form. This takes some time, but when I did this, changes were implemented promptly, well within the eight-week timeframe they give themselves (in fact they did it in a few days).
Now, for correcting citations, an Excel template is provided where you add the title of the cited reference, its WOS number, the title of the citing reference and its WOS number. I added another column for the reference number in the citing paper, not sure whether they will find that useful or not. I will try to remember to update this post when I know if the latest corrections have been implemented correctly.
Apart from “claiming” your missing citations and so improving your citation index, I would suggest authors check their published papers when they enter the WOS and see if any references need correcting. The reliability of the database depends on it.
07/11/2015
Roles of Editors and of Reviewers
When reviewing manuscript for many Journals, an obligatory question list is included in which a reviewer has to judge the general interest and quality of the work, often in the form of a percentage. I.e. does this work fall in the best 10%?
Personally, I think this is a job for the Editors, not the reviewers, who are often specialists in the exact subject of the paper and thus do not necessarily have the correct overview to give a meaningful answer to this question. Editor, on the other hand, see many more papers, even if more cursorily, so they can make these judgements much better. The reviewer role should be much more limited to judging the technical quality of the work, and can always include a voluntary remark if they want to comment on the perceived interest.
If there are any readers, what is your opinion on this?
Personally, I think this is a job for the Editors, not the reviewers, who are often specialists in the exact subject of the paper and thus do not necessarily have the correct overview to give a meaningful answer to this question. Editor, on the other hand, see many more papers, even if more cursorily, so they can make these judgements much better. The reviewer role should be much more limited to judging the technical quality of the work, and can always include a voluntary remark if they want to comment on the perceived interest.
If there are any readers, what is your opinion on this?
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