Web of Science Amy Braden Customer Education Product Specialist

Web of Science platform • EndNote Basic

• Content sets

• Journal Citation Reports

Web of Science Core Collection • Web interface to: – Science Citation Index Expanded (See journal list) • Cover-to-cover indexing of over 8,300 journals – Multidisciplinary – International – Influential • Powerful bibliographic and cited reference search capabilities, together with the benefits of cited reference linking and navigation.

THOMSON REUTERS PUBLICATION SELECTION POLICY • Publishing Standards – Peer review, Editorial conventions

• Editorial content – Addition to knowledge in specific subject field

• Diversity – International, regional influence of authors, editors, advisors

• Citation analysis – Impact Factor (JCR) – Editors and authors’ prior work

Read Journal Selection Essay

Automated Indexing  Citation Analysis

Scanning & OCR Journal/Book acquisition

Manual Indexing: Title translation for foreign language journals

Processing Time = 1-2 Weeks

Item Selection and Data Capture

Appearance of item in Web of Science

Data file is updated weekly

Biological Abstracts • Comprehensive Life Sciences database ̶

Covers over 5,000 journals and serials from1926-present (View list)

̶ All records are indexed by degreed biologists ̶

Updated Monthly in the Web of Science

• Keywords from a paper’s text are placed in specialized fields, such as: ‒ Taxonomic Data

‒ Geographic Data

‒ Disease Data

‒ Geologic Time Data

‒ Chemical Data

‒ Methods and Equipment Data

‒ Gene Name Data

‒ Parts & Structures Data

‒ Sequence Data

‒ Miscellaneous Descriptors

• Searching by Topic looks for your terms in all of these fields. • To search one field individually, use the Advanced Search page.

Zoological Record • Comprehensive coverage (1864 – present) of all aspects of zoology and animal sciences: ‒ Behavior

‒ Ecology

‒ Evolution

‒ Biodiversity

‒ Physiology

‒ Nomenclature

‒ Conservation

‒ Taxonomy

‒ Zoogeography

• More than 3.7 million records; 85,000 records added each year from over 5,000 journals (View List) – Over 3,200 unique titles not found in Biological Abstracts or Web of Science Core Collection

• Non-journal coverage includes books, reviews, conference proceedings, and other non-serial publications • Source material from over 100 countries

Human Indexing  Precise Topic Searches

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SEARCH

Topic Search: WoS Core Collection • Fields searched as a Topic Search: SCI-E

Title words

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All Years

Author keywords

1991

KeyWords Plus

1991

Author abstracts

1991

When entering search terms and phrases in the topic field, using wildcard characters (* $ ?), proximity operators, and search operators (AND OR NOT) to enhance your search statement is recommended. Example: (“el nino” or elnino or enso) and (plankton* or phytoplankton*)

Topic Search: Biological Abstracts

• Title field • Foreign Title field • Abstract field • Major Concepts field • Concept Code(s) field • Taxonomic Data table • Disease Data table • Chemical Data table • Gene Name Data table • Sequence Data table • Geographic Data table • Geologic Time Data table • Methods and Equipment Data table • Parts & Structure Data table • Miscellaneous Descriptors field

When searching for information about an organism, using both the common and Latin name is recommended. Example: “white oak” or “quercus alba”

Topic Search: Zoological Record

When searching for information about an organism, use the Latin name for best results. Example: “strix aluco”

Wildcard Characters (Truncation) Symbol

Retrieves

Example ethyl* ethyl* == ethylene ethylene ethylacetate ethylacetate ethylformamide ethylformamide

*

Zero or more characters

*ethyl *ethyl == methyl methyl dimethyl dimethyl hydroxyethyl hydroxyethyl *ethyl* *ethyl* == trichloroethylene trichloroethylene methylpyridinium methylpyridinium

? $

One character only

Zero or one character

en?oblast en?oblast == entoblast entoblast endoblast endoblast eight$ = eight eighth eighty

For Topic searches, truncation requires a minimum of 3 characters.

Proximity Operators By default, there is an implied AND connecting terms entered as a phrase. Searching a phrase retrieves records that contain all searched terms found in the title, abstract or key words fields. electromagnetic field = electromagnetic AND field

Phrase Searching

Exact matches for phrases can be found by searching on the terms enclosed in quotation marks. Wildcard characters can be used inside quotation marks.

“electromagnetic field” = electromagnetic field “electromag* field” = electromagnetic field electromagnet’s field

Near/

Finds terms in the same field; user specifies proximity. Default is 15 words if user does not specify a number. electromag* near/3 field = electromagnetic field electromagnetic radiation field field pattern in electromagnetism electromagnets created a strong field

Same

Terms must occur within the same sentence. Use in Address field only.

Search Operators All search terms must occur to be retrieved. TOPIC: aspartame AND cancer* Retrieves documents that contain both aspartame and cancer*.

Any one of the search terms must occur to be retrieved. Use when searching variants and synonyms. TOPIC:(aspartame OR saccharine OR sweetener* ) AND cancer* Retrieves documents that contain at least one of the terms. Excludes records that contain a given search term. TOPIC: aids NOT hearing “hearing aids” Retrieves documents with aids, excluding any which also contain hearing.

All Databases cross-search: Topic Search Mapping

Web of Science Core Collection (with Conference Proceedings Citation Index) BIOSIS Citation Index

Zoological Record

Topic search is mapped to multiple fields so non-experts can take advantage of enhanced indexing

Title Abstract Author Keywords KeyWords Plus® Title, Foreign Title Abstract Major Concepts, Concept Code(s) Taxonomic Data, Disease Data, Chemical Data, … Miscellaneous Descriptors Title, Book Title Abstract Broad Terms Descriptors Data Super Taxa, Systematics, Taxa Notes

TOPIC SEARCH Example: (bird* or avian) and (flu or influenz*)

Add additional fields to your search

Search field selections are made from the pull-down menu

ADDITIONAL WAYS TO SEARCH • Author – For best results, search an author’s last name and truncated first initial – To reduce noise in search results, combine a name search with the author’s institution in the address or organization-enhanced field Ex: flavell r* AND yale university

– Always search on variations for spaced or hyphenated names Ex: de la cruz f* OR delacruz f*

• Address or Organization-Enhanced – Use these fields to find papers written by authors in a particular region or institution – For best results, consult the Org-Enhanced search aid or list of suggested address abbreviations – Use wildcard characters liberally for an address search to pick up name variations

USING TERM INDEXES

Term indexes are available for the Author, Group Author, Publication Name, and Organization-Enhanced fields. Click Select from Index to navigate to the search aid.

USING TERM INDEXES (cont’d) Enter part of the term in the search box or use the alphabetical list to locate terms.

Click ADD to add terms to the box below, then click OK to add them to the main Search page.

AUTHOR IDENTIFIERS Use the Author Identifiers field to search by ResearcherID number or ORCID identifier.

www.researcherid.com

ADVANCED SEARCH

Results appear as a link in the search history.

ADVANCED SEARCH FIELDS: WOS CORE The following fields are available from the Advanced Search panel only: Tag

Definition

Example

SU=

Web of Science™ Research Area: broad categories assigned by Thomson Reuters at the journal level; unified across all Web of Science™ databases

SU=CHEMISTRY

WC=

Web of Science™ Core Collection Subject Category: categories assigned at the journal level that are unique to the Web of Science™ Core Collection; also used as Journal Citation Reports categories

WC=CHEMISTRY INORGANIC NUCLEAR

IS=

ISBN or ISSN

UT=

Accession number: a unique identifying number associated with each record

IS=0197-5897 IS=9780230307186 UT=WOS:000297310900004 UT=000297310900004

About Advanced Search • Use Advanced Search mode to target your search to specific fields in Biological Abstracts & Zoological Record • Use field tags to structure the search • Useful for certain data that cannot be searched alone in Basic Search mode • Can also search fields like Taxonomic Data, Publication Name, Topic, and Author

Useful Advanced Search Fields in Biological Abstracts Field

Searches:

Example:

Disease Data (DS)

Disease, Disorder, Condition, MeSH Terms, Variant terms, Disease Affiliation

Cystic fibrosis

Methods & Equipment (MQ)

Methods, equipment, apparatus, scientific techniques

PCR assay

Parts & Structures Data (PSD)

Parts or components of an organism, organ systems

Brain tissue

Geographic Data (GE) Geological Time (GT)

Geographic locations/places

Pacific Ocean

Geological time period

Paleiozoic

Respiratory system disease

DNA sequencing

Nervous system

Great Barrier Reef

Jurassic

Search Structure • Use tags as indicated on the Advanced Search page, followed by equals (=) sign • Use Booleans AND, OR, NOT and NEAR • Enclose phrases in quotes, use parentheses for complex searches • Can use a combination of search terms and set numbers in Advanced Search – Eg. DS=“cystic fibrosis” and #1

SEARCH RESULTS Your search statement and total number of results appears at the top of the page.

Use the “Sort by” drop-down menu to change the order of results.

Click an article title to move to a full record

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RECORD OVERVIEW

Links to other Thomson Reuters products, such as Journal Citation Reports or Essential Science Indicators are displayed along the top.

Click Cited References to view this article’s bibliography, or list of items cited by this article.

Click the title link to move to the full record.

Remember: Some references may not be linked because they are not covered in the Web of Science™, or may be a citation variant.

To find other articles in the Web of Science™ Core Collection that have cited resources also cited by this article, click the View Related Records link in the full record.

Related Records results are sorted so that those records that share the most references in common with the “parent” record are listed at the top of your search results. You may click on the linked number to view those shared references.

By doing a Related Records search, you have retrieved more records about your topic without having to add additional specific vocabulary to your query.

TIMES CITED CITATION COUNTS • See the full citation picture with citation data reported from: – Biosis Citation Index – Chinese Science Citation Database

– Data Citation Index – SciELO Citation Index – Web of Science™ Core Collection

• Article citation counts include cites from all five sources regardless of your subscription package – Links to view the citing articles are dependent upon your subscription access

Click the Times Cited link in the full record to view items in the Web of Science™ Core Collection that have cited this article.

Click the All Databases Times Cited number in the Citation Network to view items from all citation indexes in the Web of Science™ that have cited this article. The most recent citation is displayed below.

Times Cited counts will change as more items that cite this article are added to the Web of Science™.

These articles have cited the Claas article on the H5N1 virus.

Click the Citation Map link to create a graphical representation of citation activity for this a article. Select direction to create a map of the article’s Cited References, Citing Articles, or both. Choose 1 or 2 citation generations, then click the Create Map button.

CITATION MAP

When you have finished creating your map, download it as an image under the Manage menu.

Use the Appearance menu to order and color-code nodes by country, institution or journal title.

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MANAGING RESULTS

Refine results by Organization, Author, Publication Year, Country/Territory, Funding Agency, Document Type and more. You can refine any results set, including Times Cited and Related Records Results.

Clicking the more options / values… link will display up to 100 items sorted by record count.

Click the Analyze Results button on the Search Results Summary page to rank your search results by fields such as Institution Name, Author, Publication Year, Country/Territory and Web of Science Category.

After marking items on the list, choosing Refine will limit results to your selections. Choosing Exclude will eliminate your selections from the result set.

The drop-down menu allows you to sort results alphabetically.

Click Analyze Results to group and rank records in this set.

Select a field by which to rank your results, set display and sort options, then click Analyze.

Save analysis data to a text file that can be imported into a spreadsheet.

Results will display in ranked order. To view results, mark off the desired result sets, and click View Records. Clicking Exclude Records will display all other results in the set.

CITATION REPORT

You can create a Citation Report for any results set, including the Marked List.

The report automatically generates two graphs, and calculates basic statistics about articles in your set, including hindex and average citations per item.

Articles are sorted by Times Cited count by default. Use the pull-down menu to change the sort order, and the arrow buttons to view how many citations each article received per year.

Use the drop-down menu to save the report directly into an Excel spreadsheet. You can export up to 500 records at a time.

Click Marked List to move to your saved records.

Three ways to add records to the Marked List: • Mark the check box to the left of a record (or records) and click Add to Marked List • Select Page and add those records to the Marked List • Click Add to Marked List with nothing selected to specify a range of records from the set.

The Marked List is cumulative across databases. You can work with records from each database separately, or as a group.

Select output options. The list of marked records appears at the bottom of the Marked List page.

Choose the fields you wish to print, save, email, or export.

Records on the list can be resorted using the pull down menu.

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SAVING RESULTS

Use care when typing e-mail addresses, as there is no notification when mail is undelivered. If you’re sending records to someone else, entering your address into the “Return e-mail” field will ensure that you receive any replies. E-mails can be sent in either Plain Text or HTML formats

Pressing the EndNote online export button will prompt you to sign into Web of Science™ with your personal account, or register an account if you do not already have one. Doing so will open your existing EndNote online library, or create one for you if you have not previously set up an account.

Once you have signed in, you will receive a message that your records have been processed. Your EndNote online library will open in a separate window, where the exported records will appear in the Unfiled folder.

OTHER REFERENCE SOFTWARE One-click direct Export is also available for EndNote desktop, RefWorks, and Researcher ID.

If you’re using a different citation management software program, you can download records in the appropriate format by selecting from the drop-down menu, and pressing the save button.

SEARCH HISTORY Search statements are maintained in a search history. You can combine sets using Boolean operators from the Advanced Search page.

SAVING SEARCH HISTORIES

From the Search History or Advanced Search page, click Save History to save your search history. If you choose to create an alert, note that only results matching the final query will be sent to your e-mail address.

You may set up a citation alert to track new citations to a particular paper. You must register on Web of Science™ or sign in with your email address and password to take advantage of this feature.

You will receive a confirmation that the alert was created. When new citing articles are added to Web of Science™ Core Collection, you will receive an e-mail notification.

The alert information displays in the Citation Alerts section of the Saved Searches and Alerts page when you are signed in. Your alerts, which expire after one year, may be renewed from this page

CITED REFERENCE SEARCHING

What is Cited Reference Search? • Start with a known item (ex: journal article) ‒ “Source” item • Searching for the item in the Cited Reference Search panel does NOT retrieve the article record. It retrieves records for articles that have cited it. • You are searching forward in time, discovering relationships between published works as determined by article authors.

Cited Reference Search

Source Item Papers that cited the source item in their bibliographies

Cited Reference Searching - Benefits • See what papers have cited material that is NOT indexed in Web of Science. Find citations to: – Articles from journals not covered in Web of Science – Books not covered in Web of Science – Patents – Works of art: fiction, paintings, musical scores

• Find “variant” citations from papers that cited your source item using incorrect or incomplete information. • Find new, unknown information based on older, known information – Your source item may have been cited by papers in unexpected academic disciplines – Cited reference searching reveals these hidden connections

How does it work? • Two Web of Science Core Collection Indexes – Source Record Index Records contain the full bibliographic information you see when you search from the main page. They represent the documents from the 12,000+ journals and other publications covered in Web of Science. – Cited Reference Index A giant compilation of all of the bibliographies of all of the source records in Web of Science.

• In a Cited Reference Search, you are searching the Cited Reference Index PLUS additional, supplementary data from other collections in the Web of Science.

CITED REFERENCE SEARCH

How should I search for citations to a publication? • Start with what you know • Available Search Fields: – Cited Title: the article title – Cited Work: the publication where the item appeared (e.g. journal name, book title, newspaper, etc.) – Cited Author: the individual or group credited with authorship – Cited Year: the year of publication – Cited Volume, Issue or Page

• Your initial search may present you with more complete data that can be used to make your search better.

CITED JOURNAL ARTICLE SEARCH

Times Cited counts on Web of Science source records do not include citation variants– instances where an article cited this one incorrectly. In order to see a truly complete set of citing articles that includes these variants, we can search for this article as a Cited Reference.

CITED JOURNAL ARTICLE SEARCH (cont’d)

On the Cited Reference Search page, enter the lead author’s last name and first initial in the Cited Author field.

Use the journal abbreviation list to find the recommended 20character journal title abbreviation for the Cited Work field.

JOURNAL ABBREVIATION LIST To navigate through the Journal Abbreviation List quickly, use your web browser’s Find feature (Ctrl F).

Copy & paste the recommended abbreviation into the Cited Work search field.

CITED JOURNAL ARTICLE SEARCH (cont’d) Cited Volume, Issue and Page number can be helpful for narrowing down a search, but can also prevent the retrieval of citation variants. Best practice is to use the cited year, author and work fields.

Enter the year published in the Cited Year field.

This table displays all entries in the Cited Reference Index that match our search terms. Clicking Show Expanded Titles will display article titles for entries that have Web of Science™ Core Collection source records.

Note that the citation variations occur mostly in the Volume and Page fields.

The blue View Record link indicates that this item has a source record in the Web of Science™ Core Collection.

CITED JOURNAL ARTICLE SEARCH RESULTS

Selecting all entries in the lookup table returns this results set – a complete list of documents that have cited McGlynn’s article either correctly or incorrectly. All documents are topically related, even though they may not use the same terminology.

Best Practices: Cited Journal Article Search • Cited Author Field – Use the lead author’s name. – For hyphenated or multi-term last names, search all variant forms. (e.g. vandenburg b* or van den burg b*) – Search author last name, initials and first name for most complete results (e.g. lander es OR lander eric) – For non-English names, search name order variants (e.g. liu hong OR liu h* OR hong liu OR hong l*). • Cited Work Field

– Use preferred journal abbreviations, but also include potential variants of the journal title (e.g. Brit Med J* or BMJ*) • Use Cited Volume, issue and page fields with caution. Use to narrow results in cases where an author has published multiple articles in one publication in the same year.

Search for Citations to non-journal items • Citations to many different kinds of publications are searchable: books, patents, online documents, works of art, newspapers, etc. • Some example searches to try: Art Cited Author: Picasso Cited Work: Guernica

Newspaper Cited Author: Winkler R* Cited Work: Wall Street Journal

Book Cited Author: Gladwell M* Cited Work: Blink

CITED BOOK SEARCH Cited Author

Apply the same best practices for journal articles.

Cited Work

Abbreviated title of the work cited, limited to 20 characters. Use truncation liberally.

Cited Year

Refers to year of publication. Use with caution, as one work may have multiple editions.

Cited Page

If cited, limit to 4 characters

CITED BOOK SEARCH RESULTS This results set is a listNote of the variations in and publication scholarly documents intitle many yearafor this work. disciplines that have cited work of popular non-fiction.

CITED WORK OF ART SEARCH Cited Author

15 characters of the creator’s surname, a space, and up to three initials (generational designations are not indexed)

Cited Work

Abbreviated title of the work cited, limited to 20 characters. Use truncation liberally.

Cited Year

Year of production/creation.

CITED WORK OF ART SEARCH RESULTS Quickly retrieve a list of scholarly documents that discuss and/or contain For sculpture and reproductions of a particular pictorial art, the ILL work of art. notation indicates that an image of the work appears in the citing document.

If you are searching for music, MUS indicates that a portion of the score is published in the citing document.

CITED PATENT SEARCH Cited Author

Patent assignee (personal name or organization acronym). Because some authors may use an inventor name as the cited author, while others may use the patent assignee, it is not recommended to use this field.

Cited Work

Patent number without the country or kind code. Country code will display in the Volume field.

Cited Year

Year, as cited.

Enter 9623010* in the Cited Work field to determine which journal items have cited this patent.

CITED REFERENCE SEARCH

SECONDARY CITED AUTHOR SEARCH

SECONDARY CITED AUTHORS • Secondary Cited Authors are searched for all data years to which your institution subscribes. • The Cited Reference look-up table includes an ellipsis prior to the cited author’s name to indicate a secondary author. • Cited reference variants are NOT found with the Secondary Author. Search using first author’s name to find variants. –

Tip: If you are commonly asked to do Cited Reference searches for faculty, require they provide you with a CV as part of your policy.

SECONDARY CITED AUTHORS Results are sorted alphabetically by the primary author’s last name.

Secondary cited author names display after an ellipsis (…). Van den burg B* is a Secondary Cited Author for these papers.

Secondary cited authors are only searched across your institution’s subscribed set of data.

CITED REFERENCE SEARCH

LOOKUP TABLE

CITED REFERENCE LOOKUP DISPLAY

If you retrieve a referenced item that is found within a Web of Science™ database to which you have access, and that item does NOT have a Web of Science™ Core Collection record, you will see the name of the database under the View Record link.

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