Web of Knowledge

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Web of Knowledge

• January 2008
• Coffee Break Info Session
• Tomas Allen

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Web of Knowledge
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Web of Science Coverage

• 6034 major science journals across 150
  disciplines
• 1764 social science journals across 50
  disciplines
• 1121 journals in the arts humanities

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Uses of Citation Databases

• Your own publications
• Find out who is citing your research measure
  the impact of your research
• Valuable for evaluation, promotion, and grant
  applications?
• Any publications
• Trace development reception of ideas
• Especially valuable for trans-discipline tracking

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Tracking citations forward
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1994
1982
1988
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1985
Known paper
1980
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2003
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Click on Times Cited to see documents that have
cited this article.
Click on Cited References to see a list of
documents that these authors cited
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Times Cited
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Notice how same article is cited differently
Notice that this paper has been cited several
different ways.
Notice the error in Volume Number.
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• Truncation
• Truncation can be used in a number of different
  ways. Truncate the end of a word in order to
  retrieve all mentions of the word (singular and
  plural). In cases of irregular plurals, or to
  retrieve all forms of a root word, use the
  asterisk () to retrieve more than one character.
  Use internal truncation or wildcard characters
  to retrieve alternate or British spellings of
  words. Truncate after at least three characters.
  
• ? one character only
• zero or one character
• zero or more characters

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Other Uses

• E-mailing Records
• Printing Records
• Exporting Records to Bibliographic Management
  Software
• Save Histories
• Create Alerts
• Find Related Articles
• Find Authors (and Co-Authors) Addresses
• Analyze the trends in literature.

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Locate Contact information
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EndNote WEB via WoK
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Analysis from the article
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Find the most cited papers
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JCR (Journal Citation Reports)
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Journal's Impact Factor
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Journal Impact Factor

• measures the frequency with which the "average
  article" in a journal has been cited in a
  particular year.
• is calculated by dividing the number of current
  citations to articles published in the two
  previous years by the total number of articles
  published in the two previous years.

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Impact Factor Formula

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ISI Current Contents
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26 August 2004

• Chinese researchers reported this January that
  the strain of the bird flu virus involved, known
  as H5N1, had infected pigs. This is a cause for
  concern, as some virologists believe that
  previous human flu pandemics, such as the one in
  1918 that killed millions, originated in pigs.
  Yet neither the World Health Organization (WHO)
  nor the UN Food and Agriculture Organization
  (FAO) was aware of the results when they were
  published. Last week both groups were hurriedly
  trying to get the papers translated.

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ISI HighlyCited.com
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