WISER: Citation searching Web of Knowledge is a powerful way to access the ISI's multidisciplinary citation indexes. It allows you to discover what research influenced a particular work by scanning its bibliography as well as assess the impact of a particular work or author by finding articles that have cited them in their bibliographies. Judy Reading

Citation Searching with WoK Web of Knowledge includes:- Social Science Citation Index Science Citation Index Arts & Humanities Index Index to Scientific and Technical Proceedings Journal Citation Reports Available from (use title index) Or direct at You can use Athens/SSO password to access remotely – see Register within WoK to use all facilities such as citation alerts, table of contents alerts, saved searches and Endnote web

What is citation searching? Citation searching allows you to discover what research influenced a particular work by scanning its bibliography You can also search for works which have cited a particular work so tracking the influence of research forward in time. Plan for session: Demonstration of searching WOK Demonstration of Cited references search Short exercise Demonstration of setting up alerts, Journal citation reports and Endnote web Quick view of alternatives: SCOPUS and Google Scholar citation searching

Choose Select a database and Web of Science

Use the drop-down options to search title words, topics, authors, specific publication, document type etc. Combine with And, Or, Not You can change date range or citation index Context-specific help and tutorials are very useful

Results – you can mark references and print, , save or export them to reference software Link to full-text and catalogues

Search Hints Citation searching gives you the scope to start with an early seminal work / paper & move forward. WoK does not offer a subject thesaurus – you search on words in title, abstract and in author keywords Authors names: entered in a particular format (check the online help). If possible use the database index to find different forms of author’s name, otherwise truncate first initial. Combine terms with “and” where you want both and “or” for alternatives. Consider subject synonyms & British and US spellings. Apply truncation, usually * to find plurals/alternative word endings and ? to replace a single character. Expand search by following hypertext links, e.g. for alternative subject headings. Use tagging facilities within database to mark articles for printing, ing, downloading or exporting.

Click on the search aid to access the author browse

Enter Author Surname and Initial then click on Add to include in search

Each record in your results has Times Cited link – click to see the references which have quoted it

The above article is cited by the article below

From full records you can link to Times cited and also to the article’s References You can set up a citation alert for this article Look at Related records (which share references)

Link to Cited references. Citations can be to articles, books, theses etc. You can choose which to search on for a “Find related records search” Titles given in abbreviated form.

Related records are linked by common references

Cited reference search: Look to see where an author or a particular work has been cited Could also try Pring R*

Note this useful hint – mistakes in citations by authors are abundant. There is no editorial control.

Break for hands-on exercise

Journal citation reports – allow you to identify which journals publish most highly-cited articles – “impact factor”. Publishing in journals with high impact factors can be important in getting funding

Choose Select a database then Journal citation reports

You can select Journal Citation Reports by year from Science and Social Science indexes and view journals in a subject, the impact factors of a particular journal or search across all journals

Here we are looking up impact factors for ecology journals

Can sort journals alphabetically, total cites, impact factor etc

Lots of information in the help sections about journal citation reports and impact factors

Three ways to keep up to date: – alert – you can specify a search to be repeated and the results ed to you at chosen intervals –Saving and rerunning searches – you save a search and run it again in the future –Citation alert – you will receive an every time a particular article is cited in another WoK-indexed article

You will need to register and sign in to set up alerts, save searches or use EndnoteWeb

Choose Search History to save searches for alerts or to re-run them yourself

Choose Save history to save a search or Open saved history to retrieve one you have already saved

In Saved searches you can set up RSS feed alert You can open and re-run a saved search Modify settings lets you turn alerts on and off

Modify history settings – choose to have alerts

Citation alerts can be set from any full record - will you or send a message to a RSS feed when someone cites a reference Go to My Citation alerts to modify them

Endnote Web Free references managing software available with WoK Allows you to store your references You need to register

Mark the references you want then click on Save to Endnote web at the bottom of the screen

This is what Endnote Web looks like when you are logged in

To export to Refworks mark records then choose Save – as Plain Text. Then log into Refworks and import the saved file choosing Oxford University as the Import filter/Data source and Web of Knowledge [ISI] as the database.

Citation searching also available From: Google Scholar SCOPUS

Google Scholar offers Cited by links Related articles share references

Select records then choose Cited by SCOPUS also offers citation searching and citation alerts Citation tracker

Citation tracker gives you a citation overview

Further help when you need it WoK provides lots of online help and tutorials Today’s presenter can be contacted at Or ask in your library Or contact your subject librarian – see You may also be interested in some of the other WISER sessions this term – see