InCites

InCites, by Clarivate, is a benchmarking and analytics tool that uses publication information to analyze productivity, impact, and collaborations as reflected in the literature indexed in the Web of Science Databases.  It includes all academic disciplines, but is stronger and provides more narrow sub-field data for STEM fields.

Of the biggest strengths of using InCites for analysis is that you can use and compare normalized metrics that take into account what is 'expected' for other items of the same year, subject area or journal, and publication type.  Also, some metrics use percentages rather than absolute values so that  you can compare publications across different subject research areas on an equal footing.

Much of the material in this guide is taken from the InCites Training Guide and reorganized.

Your best introduction to the Incites product may be these on-demand courses:

As InCites is a subscription database, you will need to be an authorized University of Toledo user to log in.

You can use an existing login from EndNote Web, Web of Science, or Journal Citation Reports account, or you may register for a new account.

One option is to create a custom analysis based on the type of data for which you want to create a ranked list.  You can then create a variety of visualizations based on this analysis that can be added to your Dashboard or shared with other InCites users.  (Shared visualizations will be able to viewed but not edited by those you share them with.)

Each of these type of data can be explored to create your analysis, or you can start an analysis in one area and then switch to another view to analyze the results by a different criteria (such as looking up a research area, then switching to see more about the individual researchers/authors in that area).

For more guidance, there is training specifically on how to conduct analyses on Researchers and Organizations.

Your second option is to run a pre-formatted Report of the research outputs of the University of Toledo or an individual researcher.  These are dashboard with visualizations to summarize the researcher or institutions' output and impact.

• A Researcher Report can be run on any researchers with an ORCiD number or ResearcherID number from Web of Science.  The report includes number of documents, times cited, the researcher's h-index, and percent of documents ranked in the top 10% in their subject category by citations.  Additional visualizations show their subject areas, collaborations, and top journals.
• The Organization Report has several parts, but gives an overall picture of publication and impact at UToledo (or another institution).
  • The Research Performance report shows overall productivity and impact for UToledo publications, including what quartile of journals we publish in (i.e., how much are we publishing in journals ranked in the top 25% of their category, etc.).
  • The Collaborations report shows which regions or institutions UToledo researchers have co-authored publications with using a variety of visualizations.
  • The Journal Utilization Report shows what journals our researchers publish in and their relative impact.
  • Finally, the Most Cited Documents shows the individual 'top' publications from UToledo researchers.

For all of the institution-specific reports, any institution can be searched instead of UToledo.

The Dashboard tab is a place to save visualizations, or 'Tiles', that you have created in the Analytics tab, along with their underlying data.  Click on the gear at the upper right of each title to rename, delete, copy, or view the underlying data of a tile.

Multiple visualizations can be saved and then shared as a report via e-mail with another InCites user.  They will not be able to manipulate or re-analyze the data, however.