Transcript Citation Searching with Web of Knowledge

Citation Searching with
Web of Knowledge
Gabriella Netting & Louise Colver
Overview of session
How to use Oxlip to find e-resources
How to access WOK locally and remotely
How to register for Athens password and
username
 How to search for citations
Oxlip on the Web
What is ISI Web of Knowledge?
A group of databases for searching
multidisciplinary content
ISI Web Science, ISI Proceedings and
Journal Citation reports.
Web of Science
All subject areas – Science, Social
Science, Arts & Humanities
1970 – and updated weekly
 Some links to full text of articles via “TOUR”
button
 Direct access from Oxford, personal Athens
access from elsewhere
 To register use: Oxlip/Title/Athens
Registration/Personal Registration
Athens Registration
WOK on Oxlip
Web of Science
When to use citation searching?
When you want trace the history of a
particular paper backward and forward in
time
Backward: through the list of references
after the paper (cited references)
Forward: through the subsequent citations
(times cited)
Cited References (moving back in time)
Similar to looking in the bibliography of a
printed book or journal
Finds details of the articles which are
referenced by your original article
Times Cited (moving forward in time)
Finds works published since which have
referenced your original article
Excellent for getting recent references
Remember, if you start with a fairly recent
journal article, it may not yet have been
cited many times
Sample search in WOS
Search Result
Full reference
Related References
 Moves your research laterally
 Displays a list of articles whose cited reference
lists include at least one of the sources cited by
the original (parent) article
 Ranked by the number of shared references;
those sharing the most references are displayed
first
 Excellent for retrieving lots of results, but will
require some sorting to weed out irrelevant
articles
Related references
Citation Alerts
 Use this feature to register your interest in
particular article(s)
 You will then receive an email every time any of
those articles is cited by a new addition to the
database
 One you have located an article you want to add
to your list, click on the Create Citation Alert
button
 You can review your list by choosing View My
Cited Articles List from the WoK homepage
Journal citation reports
 For Sciences and Social Sciences
 This is a measure of the frequency with which
the "average article" in a journal has been cited
in a particular year. The impact factor will help
you evaluate a journal's relative importance,
especially when you compare it to others in the
same field
 From within a record you can click on Journal
Citation Reports to view the impact factor of the
journal
 Or you can view and compare impact factors of
all journals within your subject area
JCR
Journal search on JCR
Impact factor of the journal “Science”
Search result for the journal “Science”
ISI Highlycited.com
Allows you to search for a specific
researcher and see how highly cited their
work is
Use the View Publications List button to
see details of their published works, and of
articles citing them
Keep in mind that this feature is quite new
and only 250 authors are included
currently
Other services offering citation searching
- SCOPUS
On trial in Oxford until September 2006
Sciences and Social Sciences
Results include journal articles and web
pages
Each reference to a paper shows the
number of times an article has been cited
Sample Search in Scopus