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Learn how to use Web of Knowledge for citation searching, including finding articles that have cited a particular work, assessing the impact of a work or author, and setting up alerts. This session also covers alternative citation searching options like SCOPUS and Google Scholar.
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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
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
Results – you can mark references and print, email, save or export them to reference software Link to full-text and catalogues
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
Further help when you need it • WoK provides lots of online help and tutorials • Today’s presenter can be contacted at judy.reading@ouls.ox.ac.uk • Or ask in your library • 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