When a HistCite output file is first opened, it shows the main page where all the records in the output are listed. The content of this page and others available from here will depend on choices made by the HistCite software user.

The examples in this Help file were created using default HistCite settings, and the sample file provided with the HistCite 30-day free trial .

The main items to notice on the opening page are as follows:

Collection title and description: This is a title and description of the collection added by the HistCite user. The default is "Untitled Collection"

Collection Summary: This shows the Grand Total of local and global citation scores of all the papers in the collection. Below this is the date range of the papers in the collection.

Immediately below, the Analyses line shows the parameters of the collection, and allows access to specific analyses. The sample file has 500 records written by 984 unique authors, published in 219 journals, with 18,460 cited references, and 1,559 unique title words. 

Click on any of the blue links to see the data analyzed by that parameter.

Navigation controls: Immediately above and below the main table are the navigation controls which allow you to rapidly move through the collection.

The record table: When you first open an HTML presentation, the main table shows the records sorted by date order. The main table column headings are described below. Click on any of the blue or purple table headings to sort the table by that data. The current sort parameter and all relevant sorted data is highlighted in purple. Clicking a second time on a purple heading will reverse the sort order.

# : Table row number. This varies dynamically and depends on the sort order.

LCR: Local Cited References: Number of records in the collection that are cited by the paper. This number is an indication of the relevance of the paper to the collection.

CR: Number of Cited References: Total number of cited references in the bibliography of the paper.

Date/Author/Journal: This column contains the full record of each paper in the collection. Click on the Date or Author or Journal column heading to sort the records by these parameters. In Date sort order (the default) the table displays cross-headings for each year represented in the collection.

LCS: Local Citation Score: Number of citations to the paper from within the collection.

GCS: Global Citation Score: Number of citations to the paper from all sources, as reported in the Web of Science when the data was downloaded.

Records : Each record shows the data for a member of the collection in the standard Vancouver style. Each record is assigned a record number by HistCite.

Records contain links which activate a small "tip" window will indicating the number of records and the TLCS and TGCS scores for the word, author or journal.

Some of the scores in the LCR and LCS columns are in blue and, when clicked, will open a window showing a a filtered list of papers in the collection that are cited by the record or a filtered list of papers in the collection that cite the record.