WEB OF SCIENCE: SEARCHING CITATION INDEXES
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Ø Web of Science covers ALL subject areas, not just Science.
Ø Can search for articles whose reference lists cite particular authors. Thus, Web of Science allows you to move forward in time from a particular reference, to later articles which have cited that reference.
Ø There are two main ways of searching Web of Science:
o Search: like a normal database search, this finds articles on a topic. Useful limits include author address.
o Cited Reference Search: finds articles which cite a particular author, limited (if you want) by a particular publication (“cited work”), or by publication year.
Ø Web of Science gives access to articles back to 1955. So Search finds articles published since this date. You’ll be able to see their reference lists, and of course some of those references might be older than 1955.
Ø Cited Reference Search searches for any material (including books, book chapters, theses etc) of any date (eg a book by Albert Einstein from 1905). What will be retrieved are all the articles from 1955 or later which have the searched for material (eg the 1905 book) in their reference list.
Ø Use SFX links to locate full text. Alternatively, perform a Journal Title search on the library catalogue (finds both print and online versions).
Ø Use View Related Records to see which articles share references.
Ø Use Citation Report to find which Search results are being most cited, and when.
Ø Save selected results into EndNote using the Save to EndNote, RefMan, ProCite button.
Hints:
Ø Don’t search using Publication Name unless you have a good reason, because you must use the correct abbreviation for the journal name.
Ø Similarly, if you limit by author Address you must use the correct abbreviation of the author’s institution. The correct abbreviation for UTS is Univ Technol Sydney.
Ø If your author has a common name, or has published many papers, limit by topic and/ or by year as well.
Ø Beware of typos and duplicated references in Cited Reference Search results. There are a great many of these so you need to look at the initial list of cited authors very carefully before selecting and finishing the search.
Truncation characters:
Ø * = stands for any number of characters, including none, at end or within a word. Used with author names, eg Einstein A*, because an author may use different forms of their name in different publications. Be wary though because this search will also find papers by any author named A Einstein.
Ø ? = stands for a single character, at end or within a word. Can be repeated. Useful for American spellings, eg organi?ation
March 2009 UTS:LIBRARY/62003/UTS CRICOSCODE 00099F