Web of Knowledge – Workflow solution
for the research community
University of Nizwa, September 2012
Dr. Uwe Wendland
Country Manager Turkey, Middle East & Africa
Agenda
A brief history of Thomson Reuters’ Citation Indexes
Overview of existing customers
The Web of Knowledge / Web of Science Philosophy
Web of Science – How does it work?
Q&A
Thomson Reuters – A tradition of innovation
Science Citation Index
1960
1965
1970
InCites
Evaluation
Services
Arts & Humanities
Citation Index
1975
Social Sciences
Citation Index
1980
SciSearch
1985
Web of Science
1990
1995
2000
2005
Web of Knowledge 5.0
2008
2009 2011
Research in View
SCI-CD
Web of Knowledge
GLOBAL RESEARCH COMMUNITY
USING WEB OF SCIENCE
 6.000+ Research institutions
 90+ countries
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Existing Web of Knowledge customers in Turkey,
Middle East & Africa (2012)
- Saudi Arabian Consortium (30 sites Univ. 11 new in 2012)
+ KACST& KAUST
- UAE: AUS, UAE Univ, NRF, PI, Masdar Institute
- Kuwait: University of Kuwait
- Qatar: QNRF, University of Qatar
- Oman: SQU
- Egypt National Consortium (19 universities)
- Turkey National Consortium (over 170 institutions, 34 new
in 2012)
Evaluated, Selected Content
Extremely thorough, detailed
journal evaluation and selection
processes. For every journal.
Natural Sciences – from 1900
Quality
Diversity
Social Sciences – from 1900
Arts & Humanities – from 1975
Depth
Coverage of all
disciplines within:
Natural Sciences – 7,922
Social Sciences – 2,642
Arts & Humanities - 1,415
11,760 unique titles
Diverse – International
A Unique
Resource!
Selection, Cover-to-Cover
Indexing, Diversity, Depth,
and inclusion of Author Cited
References provide a
uniquely valuable tool -driving discovery within the
Web of Science
Evaluation, Comparison
Decision making aids
Analysis
Alerting
Full text links
CrossSearch
Multidisciplinary
Citation searching
Quality content
Collate
Editorial content
Specialized indexing
Powerful Search tools
• Web of Science: 1900 Journal Category
• Current Contents Connect: 1998
Discipline Name
• BIOSIS: 1926
Major Concept
• Zoological Record: 1864
Descriptors / Systematics
• CAB Abstracts: 1910
CABI Code
• Inspec: 1898
Classification Code
• MEDLINE: 1950
MeSH Heading, Major Topic, Qualifier
• FSTA: 1969
Section / Subsection
• Derwent Innovations Index: 1963
Derwent Class Code
• Chinese Science Citation Database: 1989
Chinese Library Classification Number
All Databases
• One single index
• Unified subject classification
• Coverage from 1864
• Cited references from 1900
• 22,000 journals
• 85 million records
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Web of Science
Easy to build a
comprehensive
search query
Search for a specific time frame,
or since a specific date
Web of Science – What is a citation?
2004
2008
2003
Times
Cited
2009
2000
1998
1974
Cited
References
2000
Related
Records
2008
1993
1999
2002
2000
Citation Index - The Value Add
The language of research is constantly changing, as research progress
concepts and terminology evolve.
• Text based searching may miss critical information
• Network linkages through citations facilitate the discovery of
information across the boundaries of terminology
LAV
(Europe)
???
HIV + many variants, “SIV”
HTLV-III
(USA)
1983
1987
Present
Future
This particular article is highly
cited and relevant, but does not
contain the term “HIV”
Therefore, this record cannot be
found by searching for the text
“HIV” but is easily found by using
citations
Metrics
Science Citation
Index
Expanded
Social Sciences and
Arts&Humanities
Citation Index
Article-level data
Journal-level data
Researcher-level data
Institution-level data
Country/region-level data
Field/discipline-level data
Citation Index – The Value add
Analyze results for detailed
analysis such as collaborator
identification
Instant Citation Reports to
easily evaluate research
and identify trends
Visualize citations using the
Citation Map. Identify trends
and track research pathways
The separate data sources
are selectable for specific
search objectives
Search lemmatization: Generate
more comprehensive results.
Searching for “tooth” will also retrieve
alternates such as “teeth”
Sort the results by “Times Cited” to
identify the most influential research
No limits to the number of
search results.
Refine results to efficiently narrow the
search or run a detailed analysis of the
entire result set
Expandable abstracts
for easy browsing
The Analyze feature is a powerful
analytical tool to identify trends and
refine searches. Export of the
analysis is simple
…or any other field
Identify the top countries for a
particular research topic…
And identify trends
Citation Report provides an
instant overview of the publication
and citation history
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Summary statistics and a
breakdown per article are
provided.
Link to the
Citing Articles
All author names captured, including
the full name when available
Authors are linked to addresses
making the affiliation clear
All addresses are captured and
addresses are standardized for
easy searching
Funding Acknowledgements are
captured for easy identification of
grant based research and
commercial interests
Link to external resources
Link to other resources on the Web
of Knowledge platform
Cited
References
Now includes the Times Cited count.
Immediately identify the most important
papers
2004
Times
Cited
2008
2003
2009
Citations from other sources are
also included and a breakdown of
the citing source is shown
Better distinguish the value and
relevance of the citing articles.
Use the Citation Map to visualize
the citation network
Web of Science – Citation Map
Displays an interactive visual
map of forward and backward
citations. It is possible to
dynamically scroll around the
map to show greater detail
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Web of Science – Citation Map
Modify the color of the nodes to
display trends. Options include:
Author, Source, Year, Subject
Category, Institution and Country.
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Web of Science – Citation Map
Roll over any node to
see the details.
Result save / export options
include print, save, e-mail,
marked list, alerting and RSS.
Can also export automatically to
EndNote and EndNote Web
Permanently archive results.
Organize results around your
different projects etc.
Share folders with colleagues, for
example a research group or the
reading list for a class
EndNote Web
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Archiving Search Results

Sharing Information

Formatting Bibliographies

Writing efficiently
Cite While You Write™
As you write an article – search your
EndNote Web for items you wish to cite
Automatically insert the complete bibliography of the
paper and format to the style you require.
Saves researchers and students a huge amount of
time, enabling them to focus on writing the article
EndNote Web is included as part of
the Web of Knowledge platform, fully
integrated with the Web of Science
and ResearcherID
ResearcherID is a freely available website
where researchers can register themselves
and list their publications. A useful tool to
help researchers increase their global
visibility and network with other researchers
ResearcherID also includes basic citation
metrics, available to the public
ResearcherID also includes network
analysis tools for co-author and citing
articles.
Thomson Reuters: Solutions for the entire
research cycle
Search
Quality
Discover
•Researcher ID
•Integrated IR
Manage &
Promote
Research
Output
ISI Web of Knowledge -Web of Science & other
searchable databases
Research Cycle
•Research analytics
•InCites
•Journal Citation Reports
•Web services
Evaluate
outcomes
Write and
Publish
•Endnote
•EndNote Web
•Scholar One
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Web of Knowledge – Workflow solution
for the research community
University of Nizwa, September 2012
THANK YOU !
Dr. Uwe Wendland
Country Manager Turkey, Middle East & Africa