Research Tools

InCites Benchmarking & Analytics is a customized, web-based research evaluation tool that can help you develop your research strategy. InCites B&A allows you to analyze institutional productivity, monitor collaboration activity, identify influential researchers, showcase strengths, and discover areas of opportunity.

Essential Science Indicators (ESI) is an analytical tool that helps you quickly identify highly-cited research in your field.

Journal Citation Reports® offers a systematic, objective means to critically evaluate the world's leading journals, with quantifiable, statistical information based on citation data.

SciVal offers quick, easy access to the research performance of more than 19,400 research institutions and their associated researchers from 231 nations worldwide. 

Scopus launched in November 2004, is the largest abstract and citation database containing both peer-reviewed research literature and quality web sources. 

With over 18,000 titles from more than 5,000 publishers, Scopus offers researchers a quick, easy, and comprehensive resource to support their research needs in the scientific, technical, medical, and social sciences fields and, more recently, also in the arts and humanities.

Web of Science is a platform consisting of several literature search databases designed to support scientific and scholarly research. 

A platform providing access to multidisciplinary and regional citation indexes; specialist subject indexes; a patent family index; and an index to scientific data sets.  

The following products and years have been made available for searching:

• KCI-Korean Journal Database: 1980-present

• Russian Science Citation Index: 2005-present

• SciELO Citation Index: 1997-present

Web of Science Core Collection:

• Science Citation Index Expanded: 1975-present

• Social Sciences Citation Index: 1975-present

• Arts & Humanities Citation Index: 1975-present

• Book Citation Index

• Science: 2005-present

• Social Science & Humanities: 2005-present

• Conference Proceedings Citation Index™

• Science: 1990-present

• Social Science & Humanities: 1990-present

• Emerging Sources Citation Index: 2005-present

WOS Access is for a maximum of 9999 simultaneous users.

Our subscription to Web of Science (WOS) comes with online access to EndNote®. Web of Science and EndNote are fully integrated. 

This allows faculty, researchers, and students to seamlessly build, organize and manage reference collections. Easily create bibliographies and share research with colleagues. And, fully integrated means Web of Science references will automatically display their Times Cited Count and links to Related Records.

Users can also:

• Search through PubMed, Library of Congress, and hundreds of other online resources

• Import references and PDFs from online databases and personal folders

• Store up to 50,000 references and 2GB of attachments

• Create groups to organize and share your work with colleagues

• Build bibliographies in Microsoft® Word

Access to EndNote through Web of Science or directly at my.endnote.com. 

The Chicago Manual of Style Online is the venerable, time-tested guide to style, usage, and grammar in an accessible online format. It is the indispensable reference for writers, editors, proofreaders, indexers, copywriters, designers, and publishers, informing the editorial canon with sound, definitive advice. 

EndNote is reference management software with features to: 

1) Keep all your references and reference-related materials in a searchable personal library; 

2) Synchronize your references between up to three of your personal computers, an online library, and your iPad or iPhone through EndNote Sync. (You must be the owner and user of all three computers; 

3) Set up a library sharing team and effortlessly collaborate with up to 400 co-authors and colleagues; and 

4) Cite your references in word processing documents to create formatted citations and bibliographies or independent reference lists.

Note: EndNote requires a registered Web of Science (WoS) account with roaming access. Here are your options to enable roaming access:

Log in to your WoS account within UP Manila IP address range, on campus, or remote (via Openathens or VPN) 

Part of UP System’s subscription to ScienceDirect is Mendeley Institutional Edition (MIE). 

Mendeley Reference Manager is a reference management application. It helps you simplify your reference management workflow so you can focus on achieving your goals. 

Turnitin is a commercial, Internet-based plagiarism-detection service launched in 1997. It allows you to check submitted documents against its database and the content of other websites with the aim of identifying plagiarism. 

Results can identify similarities with existing sources, and can also be used in formative assessment to help students learn to avoid plagiarism and improve their writing.

Turnitin Feedback Studio
Due to the restricted number of accounts assigned to UPM, only faculty and staff have user accounts available on the Turnitin Feedback Studio database. If your manuscript/research paper needs to be evaluated, please see the instructions below:

1. Email library.upm@up.edu.ph or your college/unit library.

2. Send your manuscript (preferably in Word or PDF file) via email.  

3. The library will check your manuscript/research paper for similarity via the Turnitin Feedback Studio and send the report back to your email.

The service for bonafide members of the UP Manila community is FREE.

Please be guided by Memo No. CCDP 2018-134: Maximum similarity index of 30% requirement for manuscript submission.

Access period is until 31 December 2025

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TurnItin Draft Coach. Students, faculty, and staff can use this additional feature as a Google Docs add-on via their UP Mail account (up.edu.ph). 

It provides the ability to use Turnitin's similarity tools in Google Docs to help users work towards the final draft of their assignment before submission. It provides instant feedback on citation errors and matches with the comprehensive database just like in Turnitin. 

Service note: If you need assistance running your paper on Turnitin, kindly email your unit library or the Main Library at library@upm.edu.ph.