Thomson Reuters

National Citation Report lets you analyze research output and impact at the national level. This resource provides you with bibliographic information and value-added metrics that provide the basis for benchmarking, ranking, and evaluating your nation's research performance.

National Citation Report restructures Thomson Scientific bibliographic and citation data into a relational database format that enables you to easily manipulate the data and conduct quantitative analyses of the scientific literature. Anyone who needs to monitor and assess research performance -- such as policymakers and research analysts in offices of science and technology, ministries of research and education, councils of rectors, global development institutions (NGOs) and international government agencies -- can benefit from this objective, analytical approach to scholarly data.

Conduct in-depth and customized analyses of national performance and productivity.

With National Citation Report, you can:

• Conduct virtually any type of analysis of output of papers and influence in terms of total citations or average citations per paper.
• Discover where high-impact, influential research is being conducted within your nation.
• Establish and confirm benchmarks.
• Make strategic planning and budget decisions.
• Identify strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities; use the data to manage resources and formulate your nation's science policy.

Why choose National Citation Report?

• You can access all standard bibliographic information for each paper indexed, plus year-by-year and total citation counts for each paper.
• Data for each paper include: all author names; addresses with separate data elements for institutional name, department, section, lab, city, state, province, country; article title; journal title, including volume; beginning page number, year; document type; and category, and annual and total citation counts.
• Includes a linked file of expected citation rates for each paper, based on the journal title, publication year and document type.Provides optional files of all citing and/or cited papers.
• You can use this detailed bibliographic and citation information to search, group, summarize and rank, using any data elements.

Format and Delivery Options

Data delivered on CD in MS Access format, with a custom Windows-based or Web interface.