WISER:
Citation searching
Web of Knowledge is a powerful way to access the ISI's
multidisciplinary citation indexes. It allows you to discover what
research influenced a particular work by scanning its
bibliography as well as assess the impact of a particular work
or author by finding articles that have cited them in their
bibliographies.
Judy Reading
Citation Searching with WoK
Web of Knowledge includes:Social Science Citation Index
Science Citation Index
Arts & Humanities Index
Index to Scientific and Technical Proceedings
Journal Citation Reports
Available from http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/oxlip (use title index)
Or direct at http://apps.isiknowledge.com
You can use Athens/SSO password to access remotely – see
http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/eresources/remote_access
Register within WoK to use all facilities such as citation alerts,
table of contents alerts, saved searches and Endnote web
What is citation searching?
• Citation searching allows you to discover what research
influenced a particular work by scanning its bibliography
• You can also search for works which have cited a particular
work so tracking the influence of research forward in time.
Plan for session:
• Demonstration of searching WOK
• Demonstration of Cited references search
• Short exercise
• Demonstration of setting up alerts, Journal citation reports and
Endnote web
• Quick view of alternatives: SCOPUS and Google Scholar
citation searching
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/oxlip
Choose Select a database
and Web of Science
Context-specific help
and tutorials are very
useful
Use the drop-down
options to search title
words, topics, authors,
specific publication,
document type etc.
You can change
date range or
citation index
Combine with
And, Or, Not
Link to full-text
and catalogues
Results – you can mark
references and print,
email, save or export
them to reference
software
Search Hints
Citation searching gives you the scope to start with an early
seminal work / paper & move forward.
 WoK does not offer a subject thesaurus – you search on
words in title, abstract and in author keywords
 Authors names: entered in a particular format (check the
online help). If possible use the database index to find
different forms of author’s name, otherwise truncate first
initial.
 Combine terms with “and” where you want both and “or” for
alternatives.
 Consider subject synonyms & British and US spellings.
 Apply truncation, usually * to find plurals/alternative word
endings and ? to replace a single character.
 Expand search by following hypertext links, e.g. for
alternative subject headings.
 Use tagging facilities within database to mark articles for
printing, emailing, downloading or exporting.
Click on the search aid to
access the author browse
Enter Author Surname and
Initial then click on Add to
include in search
Each record in your
results has Times
Cited link – click to
see the references
which have quoted it
The above article is cited
by the article below
From full records you can link to
Times cited and also to the
article’s References
Look at Related records
(which share references)
You can set up a
citation alert for
this article
Link to Cited references. Citations can be
to articles, books, theses etc. You can
choose which to search on for a “Find
related records search” Titles given in
abbreviated form.
Related records are linked by
common references
Cited reference search: Look to see where an
author or a particular work has been cited
Could also try Pring R*
Note this useful hint – mistakes in
citations by authors are abundant.
There is no editorial control.
Break for hands-on exercise
Journal citation reports – allow you to identify which
journals publish most highly-cited articles – “impact
factor”. Publishing in journals with high impact
factors can be important in getting funding
Choose Select a database
then Journal citation
reports
You can select Journal Citation Reports by
year from Science and Social Science
indexes and view journals in a subject, the
impact factors of a particular journal or
search across all journals
Here we are looking up
impact factors for
ecology journals
Can sort journals alphabetically,
total cites, impact factor etc
Lots of information in
the help sections
about journal
citation reports and
impact factors
Three ways to keep up to date:
– E-mail alert – you can specify a search to be repeated and
the results emailed to you at chosen intervals
– Saving and rerunning searches – you save a search and run
it again in the future
– Citation alert – you will receive an email every time a
particular article is cited in another WoK-indexed article
You will need to register and sign in
to set up alerts, save searches or
use EndnoteWeb
Choose Search History to save
searches for alerts or to re-run
them yourself
Choose Save history to save
a search or Open saved
history to retrieve one you
have already saved
In Saved searches
you can set up
RSS feed alert
Modify settings lets you
turn email alerts on
and off
You can open and re-run
a saved search
Modify history settings –
choose to have email
alerts
Go to My Citation alerts to
modify them
Citation alerts can be set from any
full record - will email you or send
a message to a RSS feed when
someone cites a reference
Endnote Web
• Free references managing software
available with WoK
• Allows you to store your references
• You need to register
Mark the
references you
want then click
on Save to
Endnote web at
the bottom of
the screen
This is what Endnote
Web looks like when
you are logged in
To export to Refworks mark records then choose Save – as Plain Text.
Then log into Refworks and import the saved file
choosing Oxford University as the Import filter/Data source and Web of
Knowledge [ISI] as the database.
Citation searching also available
From:
• Google Scholar
• SCOPUS
Google Scholar
offers Cited by links
Related articles
share references
SCOPUS also offers citation
searching and citation alerts
http://www.scopus.com
Citation tracker
Select records then
choose Cited by
Citation tracker gives you
a citation overview
Further help when you need it
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WoK provides lots of online help and tutorials
Today’s presenter can be contacted at
judy.reading@ouls.ox.ac.uk
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Or ask in your library
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Or contact your subject librarian – see
http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/collections/librarians
You may also be interested in some of the other WISER
sessions this term – see
http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/wiser