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Permalink Reply by Siddhartha Shankar Ray on December 28, 2013 at 7:29

Dear Surajit,

Impact factors are applicable only for those journals which are included into citation database.

An author can understand about citations of his/her contributions upon searching the respective citation databases PROVIDED the articles are published in journals which are covered by the particular database only.

Sincerely,

Siddhartha S. Ray, Calcutta

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Permalink Reply by Surajit on December 30, 2013 at 19:15

Thank u sir.. then we have to search a citation databases first. is there any criteria for Journals to include in a citation database? i.e. there are any rules created by citation databases for inclusion of journal in there databases? as per your words, its difficult to find a impact factor of a specific journal which in not included in  any citation databses.

One of the researcher of Sanskrit language asked me that how he can know the impact factor for  his articles and those journals through which he used to publish.  I confused and trying to find our that fact.

Regards

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Permalink Reply by Siddhartha Shankar Ray on January 7, 2014 at 23:04

Dear Sri Surajit,

I am sorry for the belated response but actually I missed it somehow.

Anyway, regarding first part of your query, YES. Certainly you have to search FOR citation databases. But the easiest way is to search the Thomson Reuters Intellectual Property & Science site http://www.thomsonscientific.com (You may notice that I have deliberately mentioned search FOR Citation databases  which does not mean that you have to literally search a Citation Database like, say,  Science/Social Science/Arts & Humanities Citation Indexes as such!!)

Besides, often you will find that the journals themselves mention their impact factor (in case they any) and their coverage in various bibliographic databases. This is mainly done by the journal marketing people to impress/attract potential subscribers & authors.

Regarding the second part of your query, that is, rules for inclusion of a journal in a database. YES. there ARE certain norms; like Peer Review, Editorial Boards & Policies, Frequency, Timeliness of publication and above all, the Quality of Papers!

The last one may appear to be complex and even somewhat confusing to some people but in practical sense, there are certain mechanical criteria at least to roughly estimate/ascertain quality of a paper! If you are a Library professional in a Research Library (especially in Applied Science Subjects) and provide reference service and are accustomed to prepare databases of various PROFILES, you can easily understand what I meant without saying it!!

Regarding the third part of your question, the Sanskrit journals, search the database with the titles of the requisite journals. In case they are covered by the database, they will appear with their IPs. Though I very seldom propose, but you can even try for JCR (Journal Citation Reports) in the web as well. There are several other unique resources where from you can get to know whether the requisite journals have IPs.

By the way, I am a professional of bygone hard copy days and still feel exited handling Printed Journals. The online journals are quite easy to handle (they are becoming more & more user friendly) but the challenge a Printed Journal sets up for a Library Professional is not available in e-journals as I personally feel. I still believe that they are the real acid test materials to adjudge one's masterlyness in the (Library) profession.

I hope I could clarify your queries.

Sincerely,

Siddhartha S. Ray, Calcutta

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Permalink Reply by Surajit on January 12, 2014 at 18:27

Thank u sir for your descriptive and elaborate explanation.  As I am a school librarian under WB Gov, i dnt have hv the opportunity to work in those environemnt specialy in Research library and i have no idea how to make databases of various profiles. If possible, pls give us a brief introductions of those technical aspects from your experience  which will be very essential inputs for us as LIS professioanls who dnt hv the opportunity to work with those environments.

Regards,

Surajit.

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Permalink Reply by Siddhartha Shankar Ray on January 12, 2014 at 22:54

Dear Sri Surajit,

Thanks for your post & the query.

In fact, maintaining databases/profiles is an important part of Research Libraries' activities especially on applied science subjects. It often helps the librarians to act as a pivot in knowledge communication.

I have worked as Library in-charge of a premier National Biomedical Research Institute for   more than a decade & a half. What I have expressed in my previous post was on the basis of my own experience; never-the-less, I witnessed sort of same practice in libraries abroad; however, the form and format had been different because of technological advancements in those countries.

It is needless to say that one has to be extremely familiar and knowledgeable with the latest activities of research in the fields concerned. So one has to read the journals, the content pages, the articles and the references to have a better idea of the article.

In the course of my service to that institute I often noticed that scientists are often meditate on some particular organism (Bacteria,/Parasites/Virus etc.) and they often work on a particular type of bacteria. For instance, Diarrhoea is caused by bacterias like Vibrio Cholerae,Vibrio Parahaemolyticus, Escherichia Coli, Shigella (Dysentria & Sonnei), Salmonella etc. or parasites like Entamoeba Histolytica, Giradia lLmbia or virus like Rotavirus etc.

Now Scients often concentrate on particular bacteria/ parasites/virus. Now as one search for articles on a particular organism, it so happens that some names of authors are found predominant in each such areas.They are the leading researchers in the topic.

So if one compiles & maintains a list of articles in leading journals, one can easily end up with a list of Researchers as well. Now, as users ask for references or latest research trend  on a particular topic,  one can very easily name

              (a) the scientists on the basis of specialization

              (b) the articles has been published

              (c)The institutes/labs working on each of them and the                countries involved in active research in those areas.

The World Health Organization regularly publish Weekly Epidemiological Record  (WER) on various diseases by way of disease mapping globally. The US Centre for Disease Control (CDC) also publish Morbidity Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR).

They are the basic tools to understand global burden of specific diseases and a Research Librarian can keep him/herself abreast of the latest phase of work.

As an anecdote to my previous post, here you will find the linkages with quality of papers .

One who is conversant with the articles and the researchers and compiled databases of various profiles, can easily understand the quality from the article, its author and the journal. It is needless to mention that experience and expertise of the Librarian and his/her depth of knowledge are three vital ingredients to ascertain the quality of the article.

So far the "mechanical ways" as I had mentioned in my previous post, one can ascertain quality first from the journal (higher ranked journals with greater impact factors often rejects papers which are not quality papers as per their standard (many such journals' rejection rates are over 85% that means out of 100 papers submitted to those journals only 15 are accepted for publication and rest are rejected!!) . As such, a paper published in a journal like "Nature" or "Science"  or "Journal of Infectious Disease" certainly stands apart from others and one can roughly estimate the quality of papers published in those journals.

Then from the Scientists' profile, one can ascertain the standard of the article they have produced. There are always a small group of people who produce the most viable research literature in their domain.

From the WER &/or MMWR, one can understand the disease burden of a specific country. Knowing the performing Scientists in those countries,(through Scientists' profile) a Librarian can easily spearhead his/her search to those labs where the Scientists belong!!

What I have written above may seem to be too critical but in practice, they are quite easy and just normal for any librarian provided, of course, s/he really works! That's all.

I hope I could explain the issue in a simple way!

Sincerely,

Siddhartha S. Ray, Calcutta

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Permalink Reply by Mr. Bharat Sondarva on December 29, 2013 at 16:00

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Permalink Reply by Sukhjit Kaur on December 29, 2013 at 16:54

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Permalink Reply by Surajit on December 30, 2013 at 19:03

Sukhjit ji..apne jo likkha, oh mujhe samaj neyi aayi..maine to IMpact factor ke baat kiye thee..

Regards,

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