Transcript Web of Science - Indiana University

IUB Libraries Faculty &
Graduate Student Updates
Web of Science: Citation Indexes
on the Web
Presented by Gary Wiggins
[email protected]
Web of Science: What is it?
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3 Citation Indexes in 1:
– Science Citation Index (Expanded)
– Social Sciences Citation Index
– Arts & Humanities Index
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Coverage at IUB: 1987-
How to connect?
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Through the IUB Libraries Web Page:
http://www.indiana.edu/~libfind
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Direct:
http://www.webofscience.com
http://webofscience.com
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*
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*also includes selected articles from SCIE
Weekly updates
 Lag time: 2-3 weeks
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http://www.isinet.com/journals/journals.html
17 Document Types in All
Files
Article
 Biographical Item
 Correction, Addition
 Editorial Material
 Letter
 News Item
 Also 13 special types for A&HCI only
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Reviews
Book Review
 Database Review
 Hardware Review
 Review
 Software Review
 A&HCI: art exhibit, dance performance,
film, music performance or score, etc.

Options: Easy Search
Up to 100 records retrieved
 Topic (subject search)
 Person

– Works by the person
– Works cited by others
– Works about the person
Hint: Use only the family name for information
about someone and do as a topic search,
BUT...
Search Example 1: Use of Full
Search for Biographical Item

Find biographical works on Linus
Pauling
– Comparison of “Easy Search” and the
“General Search” option
– Recommended: Search Last Name only
and elect to retrieve only Biographical
Items in General Search.
Option: Place Searches (Easy
or Full General Search)

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 1998 WOS source publications by
IUB Chemistry Department personnel and
arrange by source title (journal).
 Use the Full General Search option.
 Enter address data with the “same” proximity
operator:
Indiana same Chem same 47405
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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): *
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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
1991 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
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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
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Cited Reference Searching
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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 Full General Search and Cited
Reference Search Option
 Find publications that have cited the
works of David E. Clemmer.
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– 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 1998
For an article authored by C. D. O'Brian
O'BRIAN C* OR OBRIAN C*
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For an article on Paget's disease
PAGET'S DISEASE OR PAGETS DISEASE
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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
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Customizing the Answer Set
Basic output: Authors, titles, sources
 Optional:

– cited references, addresses, abstract,
language, publisher information, ISSN
document type, keywords, times cited
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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 to file puts a
filename.filetype: CIW.cgi
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– 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 Web Poster
 Bookwhere 2000
 Direct Export plug-in:
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http://www.risinc.com/webcap/webcap.html