Web of Science: Citation Indexes on the Web Gary Wiggins 9/29/2004

Web of Science: What is it? 3 Citation Indexes in 1: – Science Citation Index Expanded – Social Sciences Citation Index – Arts & Humanities Index Coverage at IUB: 1977-

How to connect? Through the IUB Libraries Web Page: Direct: HOWEVER: You must be connected to an IU computer in both cases.

Source Journal Coverage SCIE:5700 titles SSCI:1735 titles* A&HCI:1145 titles* *also includes selected articles from SCIE Weekly updates Lag time: 2-3 weeks

Document Types in All Files Article Biographical Item Correction, Addition Editorial Material Letter News Item Also special types for A&HCI only

Reviews Book Review Database Review Hardware Review Review Software Review A&HCI: art exhibit, dance performance, film, music performance or score, etc.

Search Example 1: Use of Full Search for Biographical Item Find biographical works on Linus Pauling – Recommended: Search Last Name only and elect to retrieve only Biographical-Item in General Search.

Option: Place Searches Institution – College or University – Research Institution – Company Geographic Data – Country – City – Postal Code

Search Example 2: Use of Full Search with Address Data Find all 2003 WOS source publications by IUB Chemistry Department personnel and arrange by source title (journal). Use the General Search option. Enter address data with the “ same ” proximity operator: Indiana same Chem same Hint: Check the abbreviations list.

Boolean and Proximity Operators; Truncation AND, OR, NOT Phrases imply adjacency when no operator is used. SAME or SENT – Terms in the same “ sentence ” in any order Precedence: ( ) > SAME or SENT > NOT > AND > OR Truncation symbol (wild card): *

Search Example 3: Use of Truncation and Proximity Full General Search for a Topic: – Mouse Pheromones Strategy: (mouse or mice or mus musculus) same (pheromone* or sex attractant*)

Subject (Topic) Searches: What ’ s being searched? Title words in all years Authors ’ Keywords, Keywords Plus, and Words from the Author Abstracts from Keywords Plus: words or phrases that frequently appear in the titles of an article's references, but do not appear in the title of the article itself

Related Records Articles that cite one or more of the same papers cited by the fully displayed record, sorted by relevance (i.e., by the number of shared references) Taken from all databases and all years, not just those selected

Search Example 4: Need to Use Synonyms in Topic Searches No controlled subject vocabulary in WOS XPS (ESCA) Since both refer to the same technique, use both in an OR search

Cited Reference Searching Every reference in the bibliography of each item published in the source journals becomes a potential search key. Caution: References may be incorrect or incomplete. Even second-listed and later authors can be searched IF you are content to consider just ISI source journals.

Search Example 5: Cited Reference Searching Use the General Search and Cited Reference Search Option Find publications that have cited the works of David E. Clemmer. – Dots before his name indicates he is not the first listed author on the publication. – Links are to ISI source journals; unlinked items may be incorrect forms of the ref.

Search Hints: Spaces, apostrophes included For an article authored by C. D. O'Brian O'BRIAN C* OR OBRIAN C* For an article on Paget's disease PAGET'S DISEASE OR PAGETS DISEASE For an article authored by W. de la Rosa DE LA ROSA W* OR DELAROSA W*

Printing, Downloading Results Mark records that you want to print or download (or MARK ALL), then SUBMIT them to MARKED LIST Marked records are automatically submitted when you change pages

Customizing the Answer Set Basic output: Authors, titles, sources Optional: – cited references, addresses, abstract, language, publisher information, ISSN document type, keywords, times cited Sort by: – Latest date, First author, Source title, Times cited

Printing or Saving/Exporting the Results “ Format for Print ” button must be used if selected records were customized Could print from the Web page Saving/Exporting: records go to savedrecs.txt – Can be read or printed with WordPad – Includes 2-character field codes – Can be imported into database software

Bibliography Manager Software Options ProCite Reference Manager EndNote Reference Poster Bookwhere 2000 Direct Export plug-in:

Analyzing Results Rankings and histograms for up to 2000 records – By author, document type, institution name, language, publication year, source title, subject category – Sort by record count or selected field