Concepts on some benificial research tools
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This document summarizes several beneficial research tools including Google Scholar, Web of Science, Scopus, ORCID, DOI, ResearchGate, and Academia.edu. Google Scholar is a freely accessible search engine that indexes scholarly literature. Web of Science and Scopus are subscription-based databases that provide comprehensive citation searching. ORCID and DOI are systems for uniquely identifying researchers and digital objects, respectively. ResearchGate and Academia.edu are social networking sites for researchers to share work and collaborate.
Concepts on some benificial research tools
- 1. CONCEPTS ON SOME BENEFICIAL RESEARCH TOOLS By Mohamed A. Alrshah PhD Candidate in Computer Science. Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology. University Putra Malaysia. Mohamed.asnd@gmail.com, mohamed.a.alrshah@ieee.org. 2015
- 2. GOOGLE SCHOLAR Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines. Released in beta in November 2004, the Google Scholar index includes most peer reviewed online journals of Europe and America's largest scholarly publishers, plus scholarly books and other non-peer reviewed journals. While Google does not publish the size of Google Scholar's database, third-party researchers estimated it to contain roughly 160 million documents as of May 2014 and an earlier statistical estimate published in PLOS ONE using a Mark and recapture method estimated approximately 80-90% coverage of all articles published in English.
- 3. GOOGLE SCHOLAR Google Scholar is similar in function to the freely available CiteSeerX and getCITED. It also resembles the subscription-based tools, Elsevier's Scopus and Thomson Reuters' Web of Science. URL: https://scholar.google.com/ Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Scholar
- 4. WEB OF SCIENCE Web of Science (previously known as (ISI) Web of Knowledge) is an online subscription-based scientific citation indexing service maintained by Thomson Reuters that provides a comprehensive citation search. It gives an access to multiple databases that reference cross-disciplinary research, which allows for in-depth exploration of specialized sub- fields within an academic or scientific discipline. URL: http://apps.webofknowledge.com/ Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_of_Science
- 5. THOMSON REUTERS Thomson Reuters Corporation is a major multinational mass media and information firm founded in Toronto and based in New York City and Toronto. It was created by the Thomson Corporation's purchase of British-based Reuters Group on 17 April 2008, and today is majority owned by The Woodbridge Company, a holding company for the Thomson family. The company operates in more than 100 countries, and has more than 60,000 employees around the world. Thomson Reuters was ranked as Canada's "leading corporate brand" in the 2010 Inter-brand Best Canadian Brands ranking. Thomson Reuters' operational headquarters are located at 3 Times Square, Manhattan, New York City. Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomson_Reuters
- 6. SCOPUS Scopus is a bibliographic database containing abstracts and citations for academic journal articles. It covers nearly 22,000 titles from over 5,000 publishers, of which 20,000 are peer-reviewed journals in the scientific, technical, medical, and social sciences (including arts and humanities). It is owned by Elsevier and is available online by subscription. Searches in Scopus also incorporate searches of patent databases. Since Elsevier is the owner of Scopus and is also one of the main international publishers of scientific journals, an independent and international Scopus Content Selection and Advisory Board was established to prevent a potential conflict of interest in the choice of journals to be included in the database and to maintain an open and transparent content coverage policy, regardless of publisher. The board consists of scientists and subject librarians. Evaluating ease of use and coverage of Scopus and the Web of Science (WOS), a 2006 study concluded that "Scopus is easy to navigate, even for the novice user.
- 7. SCOPUS The ability to search both forward and backward from a particular citation would be very helpful to the researcher. The multidisciplinary aspect allows the researcher to easily search outside of his discipline" and "One advantage of WOS over Scopus is the depth of coverage, with the full WOS database going back to 1945 and Scopus going back to 1966. However, Scopus and WOS complement each other as neither resource is all inclusive. Scopus also offers author profiles which cover affiliations, number of publications and their bibliographic data, references, and details on the number of citations each published document has received. It has alerting features that allows registered users to track changes to a profile and a facility to calculate authors' h-index. Scopus can be integrated with ORCID. Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scopus URL: http://www.scopus.com/ My Scopus ID: 35809858100
- 8. ORCID ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is a nonproprietary alphanumeric code to uniquely identify scientific and other academic authors. It provides a persistent identity for humans, similar to that created for content-related entities on digital networks by digital object identifiers (DOIs). The ORCID organization offers an open and independent registry intended to be the de facto standard for contributor identification in research and academic publishing. On 16 October 2012, ORCID launched its registry services and started issuing user identifiers. Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORCID URL: http://orcid.org/ My ORCID: 0000-0003-2385-3287
- 9. DOI A Digital Object Identifier (DOI) is a unique identifier to a published work, similar in concept to an ISBN. Wikipedia supports the use of DOI to link to published content. Where a journal source has a DOI, it is good practice to use it, in the same way as it is good practice to use ISBN references for book sources. Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Digital_O bject_Identifier
- 10. DOI There are several ways to cite a reference via DOI. In general, you should avoid entering explicit URLs to the dx.doi.org website. By using one of the following methods, the actual links are centrally managed and can be adjusted if the external website alters the way the URLs must be formatted. Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Digital_O bject_Identifier
- 11. RESEARCHGATE ResearchGate is a social networking site for scientists and researchers to share papers, ask and answer questions, and find collaborators. ResearchGate was founded in 2008 by a virologist and computer scientist Ijad Madisch. It started in Boston, and moved to Berlin, Germany, shortly afterwards. In 2009, the company began a partnership with Seeding Labs in order to supply third-world countries with surplus lab equipment from the United States. According to The New York Times the website began with very few features, then developed over time based on input from scientists. From 2009 to 2011, the site grew from 25,000 users to more than 1 million. The company grew from 12 employees in 2011 to 70 in 2012 and 120 in 2014. Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ResearchGate
- 12. ACADEMIA.EDU Academia.edu is a social networking website for academics. It was launched in September 2008 and had over 21 million registered users as of April 2015. The platform can be used to share papers, monitor their impact, and follow the research in a particular field. Academia.edu was founded by Richard Price, who raised $600,000 from Spark Ventures, Brent Hoberman, and others. Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academia.edu
- 13. WHAT ELSE? There are too many other research tools which cannot be covered in here.
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