WISER: Citation searching with Web of Knowledge

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WISER Citation searching with Web of
Knowledge Sue Bird and Judy Reading
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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//portal.isiknowledge.com
You can use Athens password to access remotely
see http//www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/athens Register
within WoK to use all facilities such as citation
alerts, table of contents alerts, saved searches
and Endnote web
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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
• Short exercise
• Looking at Cited references search
• Finish with demonstration of setting up alerts,
  Journal citation reports and Endnote web

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Click here for the WoK citation indexes
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You can do a Quick search or General search on
WoK to find material on a particular subject or
by a particular author. Note the use of the
wild card - ? to search for American and
English versions of the word. Search hints will
help you with combining terms and so on.
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See results note you can mark references and
print, email, save or export them to reference
software
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• Search Hints
• Authors names entered in a particular format
  (check the online help). If possible use the
  database index to find different forms of
  authors 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
  markarticles for printing, emailing,
  downloadingor exporting.
• WoK does not offer a subject thesaurus you
  search on words in title, abstract and in author
  keywords

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Could use Author finder option
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This highlights the advantage of using the
truncation after the first initial as you cant
always be absolutely certain that the author will
consistently use the same format of their name.
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Item 7 had only 12 times cited last week but is
now up to 13 Citation updates will be discussed
later in this session. Note the Full Text link
to Oxfords TDNet electronic journal database
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Find related records allows you to see other
articles which also quote the same references
starting with those with the most in common
Full record gives link to Cited references (i.e.
references he gives) and also Times cited (i.e.
works which cite his article)
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Link to Cited references gives example where book
title given in abbreviated form actual title is
Ecology of fear Los Angeles and the imagination
of disaster by Mike Davis. Citations can be to
articles, books, theses etc.
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Note the reference to Friedrich Engels 1940
English translation of Dialectics of
nature i.e. Citation searching gives you the
scope to start with an early seminal work / paper
move forward.
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So by indexing the references at the end of an
article you can find out who has quoted any
particular article. Definitely where the strands
of the web begin to emerge
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Break for hands-on exercise
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Cited reference search Look to see where an
author or a particular work has been cited
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Remember to abbreviate the initial
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Note this useful hint mistakes in citations by
authors There are 224 items listed for this author
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If we want to narrow things down we could just
put in the year.
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Top line is the correct reference with a full
text link as well 2nd line volume number is
WRONG 3rd line only page number given not
volume i.e. There is NO editorial control over
the citation list if the author has it wrong
then so be it. If we go back to the general
search for Swyngedouw citations then one author
has got virtually everything wrong including
year and page Check the relevant box(es) then
click Finish search above the reference list.
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So by finding who has cited the 2003 article we
have moved forward in time
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For well known works (such as Engels Dialectics
of nature) then you do need to abbreviate the
title and probably NOT enter the year of
publication as different authors may well refer
to different editions
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As you can see from this example there are
actually 211 different versions of this citation
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which have been cited by 586 authors.
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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
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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
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Here we are looking up impact factors for
geography journals
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About impact factors
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Can sort journals alphabetically, total cites,
impact factor etc
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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

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You will need to register and sign in to set up
alerts, save searches or use EndnoteWeb
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Choose Search History to save searches for alerts
or to re-run them yourself
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Choose Save history to save a search or Open
saved history to retrieve one you have already
saved
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Create citation alert will email you or send a
message to a RSS feed when someone cites this
reference
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Endnote Web

• Free references managing software available with
  WoK
• Allows you to store your references
• You need to register

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Mark the references you want then click on Save
to my Endnote web
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This is what Endnote Web looks like when you are
logged in
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To export to Refworks mark records then choose
Save then Field tagged plain text format. 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.
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Further help when you need it

• WoK provides lots of online help and tutorials
• Todays presenters can be contacted at
  sue.bird_at_ouls.ox.ac.uk or judy.reading_at_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/information_skills/wiser