Where to find the iCite button
Introduction
You may wish to analyze your literature outputs and their citation data in your results. To do this, you can click on the iCite button in numerous places:
- In all datasets, by clicking on an individual's hyperlinked name and navigating to their Person Profile, which has a compilation of the individual's publications and preprints (along with grants if they have any grant records). This allows you to analyze their publications in iCite. Learn more below.
- In the Literature dataset, you can toggle to iCite instead of viewing the Topic Explorer and analyze all of the publications and preprints in your results. This could capture literature from a variety of disambiguated authors, depending on your search criteria.
iCite Background
iCite is a tool which provides a dashboard for investigating the impact of publications, exploring their scientific influence, and visualizing the progress of published research, all in one place.
iCite has three modules:
- iCite: Influence delivers metrics of scientific influence such as the Relative Citation Ratio (RCR), which is field- and time-adjusted and benchmarked to NIH Literature as the baseline. Read about how RCR is calculated at PLOS Biology.*
- iCite: Translation measures the Human, Animal, or Molecular/Cellular Biology orientation for each paper and uses this information to track and predict citation by clinical articles. Read about how the Approximate Potential to Translate (APT) score, a machine learning-based estimate of the likelihood that a paper will be cited in later clinical trials/guidelines, is calculated at PLOS Biology.
- iCite: Citations (Open Citation Collection) disseminates link-level, public-domain citation data from the NIH Open Citation Collection (NIH-OCC). Read about the NIH-OCC at PLOS Biology.
Where to find the iCite button
After you have performed a search in one of the iSearch Analytics datasets, click on the title of a record in the results table. You will notice that names within the record view are hyperlinked in all datasets. Clicking on a name will bring you to the Person Profile for that individual, where you can see their entire literature and/or award history (for grant records). In the Person Profile, there is an iCite button beside the literature data in the header. Use this button to navigate to iCite and view the publication productivity, translation statistics and visualizations for the person's literature. Read more about People Profiles.
In addition, if you are within the Grant Records or Literature datasets, you can click on the Associated People tab to see the most prolific people associated with your results. There is an iCite button beside the Person History column where you can export this person's data to iCite and view publication productivity and translation visualizations for their literature. Learn more about Associated People for each dataset below:
Literature record view
Person Profile
iCite results view (within the Literature dataset)
Associated People
You can then export the data to perform further analysis in Excel or another analytical software program of your choice. More on iCite functionality and potential missing data.
*Refer to our publication in PLOS Biology and/or the iCite specific user guide to review what iCite values mean and how to interpret them.