Social Sciences Web of Knowledge

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Social SciencesWeb of Knowledge

• Angela Carritt
• Victoria Endean

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Workshop aims

• By the end of the session you will be able to use
  the Social Science Citation Index on Web of
  Knowledge to
• Conduct a literature search
• Link to full text and/or holding records
• Track citations to a known article
• Find related articles
• E-mail, print and save results
• Set up citation alerts
• Access Journal Citation Reports from Web of
  Knowledge

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Web of Knowledge

• Web of Science
• Social Science Citation Index
• Arts and Humanities Citation Index
• Science Citation Index
• Journal Citation Reports
• ISI Proceedings
• Highly Cited

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Social Science Citation Index

• Vital statistics
• Articles, books reviews, letters, creative works
  and more
• Significant articles from gt 1,400 behavioural and
  social science journals
• Selected articles from gt 3,100 science journals
• Approx. 130,000 records added per year.
• 1970-
• New records added weekly

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Each record includes

• Full bibliographic details abstract
• TOUR link to full text online / holdings
• Cited References - full list of all items cited
  in the article (e.g. article bibliography)
• Times Cited - later items (on WOK) which cite the
  article
• Related Records - All items (on WOK) which share
  at least one citation in common with the article

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Other tools

• Analysis tool
• Analyses results by author, institution, country,
  journal, subject area etc.
• Can also be used to analyze citations to the
  parent article
• Citation Alert
• E-mails you when a new item is adding to the
  database which cites a chosen article

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Cross Search searches all WOK databases
simultaneously

• Social Science Citation Index
• Literature searching
• Citation tracking

Science and technology only
Journal Citation Reports measure impact of
journals (number of citations, impact, citation
life etc)
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2. Select search type General Search
literature search Cited Ref Search track
citations to a known work Advanced Search
searching over a wider range of fields
1. Select database(s) to search across
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Use the indexes for help selecting search terms
Search by any of the fields either singly or in
combination
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Tips for searching

• Break your query into keywords or phrases
• Consider synonyms and alternative spellings e.g.
  American/British
• Combine search terms using Boolean logic (the
  logical relationship between search terms) and,
  or, not, same

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Tips for searching

• AND
• Search for records containing all the terms
  entered narrows search
• OR
• Search for records containing any of the terms
  entered broadens search
• NOT
• Excludes specified term narrows search
• SAME
• Terms must appear in the same sentence

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Boolean logic

• AND
• Retrieves records in which both search terms are
  present

All 3 search terms
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Boolean logic

• OR
• Retrieves records in which at least one of the
  search terms is present

College
University
college OR university
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Boolean logic

• NOT
• Retrieves records where one search term, but not
  the other, is retrieved

nuclear
radiation
radiation NOT nuclear
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Tips for searching - brackets

• Use brackets to determine the order terms are
  searched in
• Search statements inside brackets are carried out
  before those outside the brackets
• (standard OR code) AND ethic
• (infant OR bab) AND (drug OR alcohol) AND
  abus

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Tips for searching - wildcards

• Use truncation to find plurals and alternative
  endings
• Represents any number of letters at the end of
  a word
• school finds school, schools, schooling

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Tips for searching - wildcards

• ? Represents one letter in a word
• ioni?ation finds ionisation and ionization
• Represents one letter or no letters
• Barthold finds Barthold, Bartholdi, Bartholdy

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Workshop aims
Terms used in search
Move through results in sections or jump to
another page of results
Number of records found
Hypertext link to article abstract
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All items on the database which share one or more
items in their bibliography
Later items which cite this article
Articles bibliography
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Workshop aims
Use tour to see the Oxford University holdings
for this journal title
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Article details
Link to OLIS record for journal holdings

Link to online details where available
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Search within results to filter or narrow your
search
Sort results in a different order
Selected records are added to the marked list
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Marking and extracting records

• Select the check box to the left of each record
  you want to mark click add to marked list
• Choose the option select records on page
• Enter the range of records to print

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Marking and extracting records

• Select the fields to be included for each record
• Selected records from subsequent searches can be
  added to the original marked list

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Go to marked list after selecting the records
you want to export
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Select the fields you want to have exported
Enter an email address if delivery is via this
option
Select the output option
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To track citations to a known work
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e.g. searching for citations to Simons, K
Rethinking mental states Boston University Law
Review 72 (3) 463-554 May 1992
Use Thomson list to check the correct
abbreviation for the journal. Note sometimes
there is more than one abbreviation. Use
connectors if necessary e.g. Boston U Law Rev
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Select the appropriate article by checking the
tick box (to see title hover your mouse over
view record). Then choose Finish Search
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e.g. articles citing Rethinking Mental States
Analyze the articles citing the parent record
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Choose how to analyse the citations
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e.g. analayzing the articles which cite
Rethinking Mental States by author. 4 of the
citation are by KW Simon, 3 by AC Michaels.
Authors who have only cited the article once are
not listed. To include them in the list change
Minimum record count (threshold) to 1.
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e.g. analayzing the articles which cite
Rethinking Mental States by institution.
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Advanced search searching in a wider range of
fields than general search
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• Specify the fields to search (e.g.
  tsmulticulturalism AND aubloggs)
• Use connectors between search terms as in the
  general search
• If you want to use connectors to combine your
  search term and to search across more than one
  field, you must use parentheses to separate the
  searches belonging to each field e.g.
  ts(multicult AND education) AND py(1999 or
  2000)If your boolean search itself requires
  parentheses you must nest them e.g. ((law or
  legislation) SAME terror) AND cu (England or
  Scotland or Ireland)

Available fields
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e.g. ts ((law or legislation) SAME terror) AND
cu (England or Scotland or Ireland)
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To view results click on the result number
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e.g. search results for ((law or legislation)
SAME terror) AND cu (England or Scotland or
Ireland)
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Statistical analysis of impact the impact of key
journals
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Calculating showing how often articles were cited
during the first year after publication
Number of years from current year accounting for
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Calculation showing how often the average
article was cited during the year
Total number of citations to the journal for the
year
More information at http//jcrweb.com/www/help/hjc
rgls2.htm Impact factors should be used with care
see http//scientific.thomson.com/free/essays/jo
urnalcitationreports/
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e.g. journals by impact factor