January 03, 2020

Happy New Year!!!

With this first release of 2020, we are adding a new category schema called RIS3 (Smart Specialization Strategy). The smart specialization strategy (RIS3) for Latvia was developed in 2014 to concentrate public R&D investment in programs that create future domestic capability and interregional comparative advantage. More information is available here. 

This new category schema is available in all contexts under the Research Area dropdown.

Information on the latest release of the InCites dataset can be found in the Data and Subscription Notification updates.

December 17, 2019

Information on the latest release of the InCites dataset can be found in the Data and Subscription Notification updates.

November 26, 2019

Information on the latest release of the InCites dataset can be found in the Data and Subscription Notification updates.

November 12, 2019

Information on the latest release of the InCites dataset can be found in the Data and Subscription Notification updates.

November 07, 2019

InCites API update

We are making new fields available, renaming few fields to be consistent with the InCites application and also ensuring backward compatibility – so your existing InCites API  integrations will continue to work without any changes.  We are excited to present the following enhancements to the DocumentLevelMetricsByInstitutionId and DocumentLevelMetricsByUT endpoints in the InCites API. 

All the enhancements below are available using the “ver=2” parameter. If the "ver" parameter is absent, we will continue to return the old stack, ensuring backward compatibility with your existing integrations.

• Open Access types per UT
• Retrieve Category specific metrics: By default, Web of Science category data is returned. However, users can retrieve category data for other schema by using a schema parameter with the appropriate schema code. The schema code is available on the Developer Portal.
• Return actual document type string instead of document type code
• Updated field names

Legacy Name	New Name
ISI_LOC	ACCESSION_NUMBER
TOT_CITES	TIMES_CITED
ARTICLE_TYPE	DOCUMENT_TYPE
ESI_MOST_CITED_ARTICLE	ESI_HIGHLY_CITED_PAPER
AVG_EXPECTED_RATE	HARMEAN_CAT_EXP_CITATION
JOURNAL_ACT_EXP_CITATIONS	JNCI

• Please review the swagger documentation available in the Developer Portal for more information.

November 06, 2019

A new InCites application update was released today with the following features-

• Filter individual Open Access type- you can select and filter on more than one Open Access type in all contexts.
• View and Export OA documents- The document counts are now clickable for all Open Access indicators, allowing you to view and export the underlying documents categorized in each Open Access type
• Visualize the individual Open Access indicator data using Bar chart, Trend Chart and 5 year Trend Chart

October 03, 2019

A new InCites experience:

Each of the features in this and future releases were informed by our InCites users - through surveys, interviews and prototype-testing over the past year. And in discovering our user workflows, we are keen to ensure that these existing workflows are not interrupted. Our release schedule is designed to introduce gradual usability improvements with a corresponding release notes, to outline what has changed and why. 

We are also excited to introduce Open Access Impactstory Data in InCites. We have added the following 12 new indicators capturing and aggregating the article level OA version in InCites. These indicators are available in all contexts under "Manage Indicators - Open Access tab". To learn more about Impactstory OA data, please follow this link.

This set of features, among a series of planned updates, will make InCites Benchmarking & Analytics more intuitive, inviting and valuable to you. Please review the release notes posted here (application/pdf, 629.4 kB, info).

If you are an EZProxy user, please make the necessary configuration changes outlined by OCLC here to ensure a seamless user experience.

Indicator Name	Description
All Open Access Documents	Calculates the total number of publications that are identified as Open Access of any type - i.e. contain at least one the following OA indicator types: Green Published or Green Accepted or DOAJ Gold or Other Gold or bronze
DOAJ Gold Documents	Calculates the total number of publications that are identified as DOAJ Gold Open Access type
Other Gold Documents	Calculates the total number of publications that are identified as Other Gold Open Access type
Green Published Documents	Calculates the total number of publications that are identified as Green Published Open Access type
Green Accepted Documents	Calculates the total number of publications that are identified as Green Accepted Open Access type
Bronze Documents	Calculates the total number of publications that are identified as Bronze Open Access type
% All Open Access Documents	Calculates the percentage of # of All Open Access Documents" / # of Web of Science Documents
% DOAJ Gold Documents	Calculates the percentage of # of DOAJ Gold Documents / # of Web of Science Documents
% Other Gold Documents	Calculates the percentage of # of Other Gold Documents / # of Web of Science Documents
% Green Published Documents	Calculates the percentage of # of Green Accepted Documents / # of Web of Science Documents
% Green Accepted Documents	Calculates the percentage of # of Green Accepted Documents / # of Web of Science Documents
% Bronze Documents	Calculates the percentage of # of Bronze Documents / # of Web of Science Document

September 26, 2019

Information on the latest release of the InCites dataset can be found in the Data and Subscription Notification updates.

September 18, 2019

We are excited to share the news that My Organization, the new InCites module, is formally released today. 

This new module helps you resolve the need to accurately evaluate your departments and researchers using citation analysis from InCites Benchmarking & Analytics. My Organization provides self-service tools for your Administrator users to upload and manage your data – generally sourced from your research information system – either through manual templates or through the My Organization API. The My Organization API includes direct connectors for Converis and VIVO which are ready in play now. It also extends the analytic capabilities for the Analyst, through easy to use reports as well as integrating with the full reporting capability from InCites Benchmarking & Analytics. 

Please talk to your Accounts Manager today to sign up for a trial. If you have access to My Organization already, please review the Getting Started guide.

August 27, 2019

A new InCites data update was released today with the following enhancements:

• Within the Journal context, ISSN values are available for all ESCI indexed Journals.
• New category called "Not Classified" is available in the REF2021 schema which includes documents from the WoS category called "Multidisciplinary Sciences". Documents in this category are too broad to be included in the REF 2021 schema.

Information on the latest release of the InCites dataset can be found in the Data and Subscription Notification updates.

July 31, 2019

A new InCites update was released today with the following enhancements:

• Display the NUTS region name in addition to Country and NUTS Code in the location filters in in Regions, Research Areas, Journal, Funding Agency and Collaboration with Location filters in all contexts. 
• The Journal Country/Region value is now assigned for all Journals (including Journals indexed in Emerging Sources Citation Index - ESCI) time periods irrespective of JCR coverage. This means even ESCI journals will now have a Journal Country/Region value which wasn't available earlier. This allows to quickly search and analyze all Journals belonging to one or more countries/regions in the Journal context.
• Australian Field of Research (FoR) category Schema updates as per the 2018 version of the ARC journal list released recently. The 2018 categories replaces the existing 2015 FoR categories. 
• Added Rutgers Univ New Brunswick to US:BIG TEN Organization association
• Information on the latest release of the InCites dataset can be found in the Data and Subscription Notification updates.

July 17, 2019

A new InCites update was released today with the following enhancements:

• Complete set of baselines are now available in the Journal context. Users can pick and choose different options such as Global Baselines, Baseline for All items or Dataset baselines in the Journal context, similar to other contexts. 
• Web of Science document count is now displayed in the top left of the screen in Journal Context, bringing the Journal entity on-par with the rest of the contexts within the application.
• The July data update will be available in the next release scheduled towards the end of the month.

June 28, 2019

A new InCites update was released today with the following enhancements:

• JCR 2018 data is now available in InCites
• A new indicator called ISSN was added in the Journal Explorer. User can choose to add it in the data grid. The ISSN value is also available in the Journal export file
• The baselines for pinned items is now available in the Journal context. Users can pick and choose two or more journals to create a baseline. Other baselines for Journals (Global, All, Dataset) will be added in one of the forthcoming releases.
• Updated NORTH AMER: APLU HBCU UNIVS association
• Removed University of Arkansas Fayettesville 
• Added University of Arkansas Pine Bluff
• Update Australian Associations
• AUSTRALIA: RUN http://www.run.edu.au/ 
• Created new RUN group (called AUSTRALIA: RUN) and added: Charles Sturt University, Southern Cross University, Central Queensland University, Federation University Australia, University of New England, University of Southern Queensland, University of the Sunshine Coast
• AUSTRALIA: ATN https://www.atn.edu.au/ 
• Removed Queensland University of Technology (QUT) from the ATN
• AUSTRALIA: IRU https://www.iru.edu.au/about/our-universities/ 
• Removed University of Newcastle from IRU
• Added Western Sydney University to IRU
• AUSTRALIA: NON GROUP OF 8
• Added Federation University Australia and University of Notre Dame Australia to Non Group of 8

• Information on the latest release of the InCites dataset can be found in the Data and Subscription Notification updates.

June 12, 2019

A new InCites update was released today with the following enhancement:

• New column called "Document type" is now available in the "Document List View" window and in the corresponding export file. The underlying data in this column captures the unique document type for each publication. Please review this page to understand the document types available in InCites.

May 31, 2019

A new InCites update was released today with the following enhancements:

• New REF 2021 Category Schema
• The Research Excellence Framework (REF) is the current system for assessing the quality of research in UK higher education institutions. Submissions to the REF will be made in 34 units of assessment (UOA) aka categories. These REF 2021 categories are added as a separate schema in InCites B&A. 
• The REF 2021 schema is available in all context under the "Schema" drop-down.
• Values displayed in all filter drop-down lists are alphabetically sorted according to the user search.
• Updated Japan: National Universities association
• Following 8 new institutions were added to this association:
• Aichi University Education
• Miyagi University Education
• Kyoto University of Education
• Otaru University
• Joetsu University Education
• Nara University Education
• Fukuoka University Education
• Hokkaido University of Education

Information on the latest release of the InCites dataset can be found in the Data and Subscription Notification updates.

May 15, 2019

A new InCites application update was released today to account for the introduction of Web of Science ResearcherID. See this link for more information. 

April 30, 2019

Information on the latest release of the InCites dataset can be found in the Data and Subscription Notification updates.

March 29, 2019

Information on the latest release of the InCites dataset can be found in the Data and Subscription Notification updates.

March 22, 2019

We are LIVE with the new URLs below. The legacy thomsonreuters URL will continue to re-direct to the new Clarivate domain URLs for few more weeks. Please take a moment to update any saved bookmarked links you may have to avoid an interruption in service.

• To access Journal Citation Reports, please bookmark https://jcr.clarivate.com
• To access Essential Science Indicators, please bookmark https://esi.clarivate.com
• To access InCites Benchmarking & Analytics, please bookmark https://incites.clarivate.com 

Shibboleth/SAML Customers:

Our customers using Shibboleth/SAML SSO to access InCites B&A, JCR, ESI platform are required to perform mandatory configuration changes in order to continue accessing the platform after March 22. 

New SP metadata is available in this location which includes references to the new urls above.

• Federation/Customers software that supports only single entity should NOT update the url until the cutover date (March 22). They will have to perform the change on March 22 or later to continue uninterrupted access to the platform.
• Federations/Customers software that support upload of the complete metadata can perform these configuration change between now and the cutover date (March 22). Such customers will need to download our metadata from the above location and upload it into their software to continue uninterrupted access to the platform.

EZ Proxy customers:

We have worked closely with OCLC to update the EZ Proxy configuration available here to incorporate our new URLs. 

Please ensure these configuration updates are completed at the site by March 22 in order to continue accessing the InCites platform.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact customer care 

February 27, 2019

A new InCites update was released today which introduces two new features:

1. New WoS categories (introduced in WoS in January 2019) - Quantum Science & Technology, Development Studies, and Regional & Urban Planning, will be available in InCites Benchmarking and Analytics with this data refresh. Users can use the existing Research Area filters to analyze these new categories in all contexts. 

The Planning and Development category will no longer be available in InCites. Existing saved tiles with this category will not display any data. We encourage users to use either Development Studies or Regional & Urban Planning categories instead. These categories are also mapped to non WoS and non ESI categories in other schemas. The updated category mapping file is available here. 

2. The category expected citation and percentile in subject area values will now correspond to the category selected by the user in Research Area entity only. For all other entities, we will continue to display the harmonic mean of category expected citation and the best percentile in subject area values for each document.

Information on the latest release of the InCites dataset can be found in the Data and Subscription Notification updates.

January 31, 2019

A new InCites update was released today which introduces two new features:

1. Only the latest JCR data will be displayed in the data grid within the Journal entity. The tool tips for the JCR indicators (see complete list below) are updated to reflect this behavior

Journal Impact Factor

Impact Factor w/o Self Cites

5 Year Impact Factor

Cited Half Life

Immediacy Index

Eigenfactor

Article Influence

Quartile

2. Results in "Location" and "Collaboration with Location" filters will be sorted based on a scoring algorithm, rather than ordered alphabetically

Information on the latest release of the InCites dataset can be found in the Data and Subscription Notification updates.

December 18, 2018

Information on the latest release of the InCites dataset can be found in the Data and Subscription Notification updates.

November 30, 2018

• China state/provinces data is now available under the location filters. A user can filter on a specific Chinese state/province to analyze the underlying data
• Information on the latest release of the InCites dataset can be found in the Data and Subscription Notification updates.

November 14, 2018

A new patch was released today which introduces two new features:

1. Ranking of individual items are now available for first 10,000 items in the data grid. If the rank of an individual item in "n/a", it means the item is ranked greater than 10,000 in the result list.

2. The "true" non-rounded value used to rank individual items can be viewed on mouse-hover and in the export file.

Please note: Universite Cote d'Azur (ComUE) may appear in your InCites results in Organization entity due to an application defect inadvertently introduced in the October 31 dataset update.  Documents incorrectly attributed to Universite Cote d'Azur (ComUE) will be corrected in the next dataset update (November update) of InCites. In the meantime, please contact Clarivate Technical Support if you need assistance temporarily excluding this institution from your results.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact customer care 

October 31, 2018

Information on the latest release of the InCites dataset can be found in the Data and Subscription Notification updates.

October 04, 2018

Within the Journal entity, the "View profile" button is enabled if the Journal is available in JCR . Clicking on the "View profile" button will now take the user to the new JCR Journal profile page for the corresponding Journal.

Information on the latest release of the InCites dataset can be found in the Data and Subscription Notification updates.

August 31, 2018

With this release, the European NUTS classification data is now available in InCites B&A. The Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (aka NUTS) is a geocode standard for referencing the subdivisions of countries for statistical purposes. The standard is developed and regulated by the European Union, and thus only covers the member states of the EU in detail. The Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics is instrumental in the European Union's Structural Fund delivery mechanisms. For each EU member country, a hierarchy of three NUTS levels is established by Eurostat:

- NUTS 1: major socio-economic regions

- NUTS 2: basic regions

- NUTS 3: small regions

All of the level 1, 2 and 3 data is available under each "Location" filter in Regions, Research Area, Journal and Funding Agencies as well as in the "Collaboration with Location" filter for People and Organization entities. 

Country/Region option is now selected by default within the "Location Type" filter of Region explorer. 

Information on the latest release of the InCites dataset can be found in the Data and Subscription Notification updates.

July 28, 2018

Information on the latest release of the InCites dataset can be found in the Data and Subscription Notification updates.

July 06, 2018

We are excited to bring you best in class technology upgrades through the coming weeks and months.  Unfortunately we've experienced some difficulties during the change - we've heard your concerns and are working quickly to address known defects with this patch release.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact customer care 

June 23, 2018

With this patch release, we are introducing a new "Alert and Notification" feature, allowing us to deliver messages directly to our users. The message will be displayed as a popup modal upon user login and will go away when the user acknowledges it by clicking the appropriate button, never to be displayed again. 

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact customer care 

June 16, 2018

We apologize for any inconvenience caused due to the recent spike in the issues with the InCites platform. Our technology team is working diligently to resolve issues reported so far. If you are still experiencing difficulties with the InCites platform, please do not hesitate to contact customer care 

With this release, we are back to refreshing the incites dataset mid-month. Information on the latest release of the InCites dataset can be found in the Data and Subscription Notification updates.

May 26, 2018

New features implemented in this release:

1. ESCI index from WoS core collection is now available in B&A: The option to toggle between ESCI and non ESCI datasets is available through Explorer. Once in Explorer, users are able to select or deselect ESCI and the underlying data and performance baselines are updated immediately to show the research impact. By default, this is unchecked.

2. New Indicator  - 1 Year Citing all Prior Years Cumulative: This new indicator is available in the "Organization" entity and counts citing document grouped by the publication year of the citing document. Thus, this is another variation of the "Times Cites Per year" but instead of looking at the publication year of the source document, we are capturing the publication year of the citing document. This can be found under "Manage indicators" -> Impact group. This new indicator is also available in the "Research Performance" system report. It provides institution the performance (in particular year) of all their publications written so far. For example: How many times my entire publications were cited by documents published in a specific year? 

On the other hand, the times cited per year indicator provides Institution the performance of their publications written in a particular year. For example: How many times my publications from 2012 were cited when compared to my publications from 2011? 

Information on the latest release of the InCites dataset can be found in the Data and Subscription Notification updates.

April 28, 2018

We are excited to announce the start of the My Organization beta program with this release. My Organization is an add-on module available to existing InCites B&A subscribers to upload and analyze your Organization hierarchy and publications data within the InCites platform . More information is available here. Please talk to your accounts manager if you have any questions. 

With this release, we have also implemented material improvements to our B&A user interface such as

• Reorganized primary navigation (Analytics, Dashboard, My Organization, Profiles)

• Added tooltips for indicators, filters and threshold

Information on the latest release of the InCites dataset can be found in the Data and Subscription Notification updates.

Additionally, number of issues are fixed around stability and performance of different components of IC platform. We apologize for any inconvenience caused due to recent technology infrastructure upgrade and appreciate your patience. If you are still experiencing difficulties with the InCites platform, please do not hesitate to contact customer care 

April 11, 2018

Over the past two weekends, we upgraded our technology infrastructure that runs the InCites platform (B&A, ESI and JCR) in order to significantly improve the performance of our tools and products to deliver a superior user experience. Due to these infrastructure changes, we encountered some technical issues over the past two weeks. We appreciate your patience as we continue to work with our technology teams for a quick resolution. We have deployed an update today at 3 pm EDT which should resolve the matters reported so far. We apologize for any inconvenience. If you are still experiencing difficulties with the InCites platform, please do not hesitate to contact customer care 

March 31, 2018

• Renamed "Results" field in the query builder to "Documents" and will now report the total WoS documents returned by the query.

• Limit the results returned by the query builder to first 275 items. 

• Information on the latest release of the InCites dataset can be found in the Data and Subscription Notification updates.

February 10, 2018

Information on the latest release of the InCites dataset can be found in the Data and Subscription Notification updates.

January 13, 2018

Information on the latest release of the InCites dataset can be found in the Data and Subscription Notification updates.

December 16, 2017

Information on the latest release of the InCites dataset can be found in the Data and Subscription Notification updates.

November 18, 2017

• Within ESI, customers can now easily identify the top institutions in a particular country/region and field. With the addition of each institution's country/region and an updated filter, customers will save time and effort where they previously had to create these lists offline in a spreadsheet.
• Information on the latest release of the InCites dataset can be found in the Data and Subscription Notification updates.

October 14, 2017

Information on the latest release of the InCites dataset can be found in the Data and Subscription Notification updates.

September 23, 2017

• A scatterplot visualization is now available in the InCites Explorer for improved benchmarking
• Information on the latest release of the InCites dataset can be found in the Data and Subscription Notification updates.

August 19, 2017

Information on the latest release of the InCites dataset can be found in the Data and Subscription Notification updates.

July 22, 2017

Information on the latest release of the InCites dataset can be found in the Data and Subscription Notification updates.

July 1, 2017

• Assess research impact using Journal Impact Factor Quartile indicators in all Explorers. Understand your share of output in each quartile over time.

• Normalized indicators have been made available for the five-year trend graph visualization. See description of five-year baselines here.

May 15, 2017

• A new Research Area scheme has been added to InCites. The CAPES classification scheme was created by the Foundation CAPES, linked to the Ministry of Education, in order to facilitate the evaluation and skills improvement of superior education staff in Brazil. CAPES stands for Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior. More information.

• Information on the latest release of the InCites dataset can be found in the Data and Subscription Notification updates.

April 15, 2017

You can now create a custom dataset by uploading a file of identifiers such as Web of Science accession numbers or DOIs. More information.

March 29, 2017

• A second type of trend graph, the 5-Year Trend Graph, has been added to all Explorers. This graph groups documents and citations accumulated in the same five-year period. Trend lines on multi-year graphs tend to appear more stable than those illustrated on single-year graphs.

• Program based “KAKENHI-Japan” has been added to the funding agency explorer, combining all KAKENHI programs provided by MEXT (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan) and JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science). The unification of KAKENHI programs is partly based on a collaboration project with NISTEP (National Institute of Science and Technology Policy), Japan.

March 11, 2017

• Now you can save up to 20 custom datasets. The previous limit was 5.

• Custom datasets can now be exported from the My Folders page.

• A new threshold, Authors per Document, has been added to all InCites Explorers. This threshold enables you to limit a dataset to only documents with a minimum and maximum number of authors.

January 14, 2017

• Research Area data in the Web of Science Documents table has been modified so that the Percentile in Subject Area corresponds to the first listed Research Area. This change affects only documents assigned to multiple research areas.

December 1, 2016

• ORCID and RID found in Web of Science Core Collection are now searchable in each of the InCites Explorers.  All documents associated with the author identifier will appear in InCites, so that Web of Science and InCites similarly represent authorship.  

• Prior to the 2016 4th bimonthly update of InCites (November 2016) a document’s publisher was determined at the time the document was indexed. Whatever the publisher was at the time of indexing (1980-2016), InCites displayed this as the publisher of the document. For example if a journal changed publishers in 2010, its pre-2010 documents would be associated with the previous publisher and its 2010-and-later documents would be associated with the current publisher.

With the latest InCites update, this protocol has undergone a change. Now InCites will display every document’s publisher as whichever publisher is currently associated with the document’s publication. Extending the above example, after a 2010 publisher change all of a journal’s documents (even those published prior to 2010) will be associated with the current publisher.

September 22, 2016

• New Location Type filter has been added to further refine your queries by selecting from Country/Region, Country/Region Groups and/or State/Province combinations. 

• The Journal Country/Region filter has been added allowing you to filter results by country/region of publication origin.

August 18, 2016

• The Internal and External Collaborations feature available to Web of Science^TM Profiles customers has been updated. Read more here.

August 4, 2016

• The InCites Explorers are all updated to access a a unique institution dataset for Web of Science^TM Profiles customers.  By selecting a Web of Science^TM Profile dataset for your institution, you can leverage all of the existing InCites features to benchmark your curated researcher profiles and departments, and explore the characteristics and impact of their research output. Learn more here. 

• Read more about Web of Science^TM Profiles here. 

July 14, 2016

• An update to the Funding Agency Explorer now includes a hierarchical structure and parent organization of 'National Institutes of Health -USA.'

• JCR 2015 metrics can now be downloaded from the application.

June 13, 2016

• 2016 Journal Citation Reports data is now included in the InCites dataset.

• Easily toggle between the different master tiles using the new Entity Type selector. 

March 31, 2016

• More than two hundred Japanese funding agencies have been added to the funding agency explorer.  The majority of unification for these organizations is based on a collaboration project with NISTEP, National Institute of Science and Technology Policy, Japan.  

  Check out the full list of funding agencies here.

• Users can now select the KAKEN mapping from the Research Area Scheme choices. 

February 25, 2016

• The Funding Agencies Explorer in InCites allows Funders, Analysts, Researchers and Publishers to analyze the impact of research that has been funded, published or both funded and published by agencies by leveraging unified funding acknowledgment data from the Web of Science.