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.
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ReplyDeleteMy form correction attempt did not work, they did not implement the corrections...so back to filling in the web form. Which works, the correction was implemented straight-away!
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