Essential Science Indicators Tutorial

Baselines - The Baselines Menu allows you to access the following tables:

Average Citation Rates: Calculated for each year of the 10-year period covered in Essential Science Indicators.

Percentiles: Shows the citation count threshold for six different percentile cuts for each field and year.

Field Rankings: Displays papers and citations data on all fields covering all years in the product's database.

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Average Citation Rates Details -
Averages are calculated by adding up the citation counts of individual papers and dividing by the number of those papers. For example, you can compare the citations per paper for a scientist in a field of study to the average citation rates for that field to determine how a particular paper compares to the average.

Percentiles Details -
The levels by field and year are 0.01%, 0.1%, 1.0%, 10%, 20%, and 50%. Using the percentiles table, you can determine, for example, the number of citations required to be in the top 0.01% for a particular field of study.

Field Rankings Details -
The fields are sorted by number of citations by default, the field with the most citations being at the top of the list.

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