CONCEPTS ON SOME BENEFICIAL 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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