Searching and Evaluating on Web of Science & Scopus

Date and time	Format and language	For
Wednesday, November 19 10:00 – 11:30 a.m. (90 min)	Webinar in English	All students, PhD candidates

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Do you need to figure out the state of the art in your field or write a rigorous literature review? Do you wish to find a journal that meets the publication requirements of your PhD, tenure, or promotion? This webinar will give you advanced tips on how to conduct methodical searches of major citation databases, how to evaluate journals in your field using citation metrics, and how to maintain your researcher profile.

Who should participate?

The webinar is designed primarily for PhDs and early career researchers, but anyone with an interest in research and scholarly publication is welcome to attend.

What topics will be covered?

We will look at key citation databases (Web of Science, Scopus, Open Alex, Scite_) and discuss their respective uses, advantages, and disadvantages in relation to specific research tasks: such as searching for literature when writing a literature review or the dissertation state-of-the-art, identifying seminal papers, searching for and evaluating journals suitable for one’s own articles, and maintaining a researcher profile (ORCID iD). We will address questions such as:

Why stick to searching the Web of Science and Scopus?
What kind of metrics to use (and how) to evaluate and compare journals?
How can you enhance your traditional search using AI?
But also, why you shouldn’t leave everything to AI just yet.

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The webinar will be conducted using ZOOM software.