Citation Searching with Web of Knowledge

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Citation Searching with Web of Knowledge

• Gabriella Netting Louise Colver

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Overview of session

• How to use Oxlip to find e-resources
• How to access WOK locally and remotely
• How to register for Athens password and username
• How to search for citations

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Oxlip on the Web
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What is ISI Web of Knowledge?

• A group of databases for searching
  multidisciplinary content
• ISI Web Science, ISI Proceedings and Journal
  Citation reports.

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Web of Science

• All subject areas Science, Social Science, Arts
  Humanities
• 1970 and updated weekly
• Some links to full text of articles via TOUR
  button
• Direct access from Oxford, personal Athens access
  from elsewhere
• To register use Oxlip/Title/Athens
  Registration/Personal Registration

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Athens Registration
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WOK on Oxlip
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Web of Science
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When to use citation searching?

• When you want trace the history of a particular
  paper backward and forward in time
• Backward through the list of references after
  the paper (cited references)
• Forward through the subsequent citations (times
  cited)

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Cited References (moving back in time)

• Similar to looking in the bibliography of a
  printed book or journal
• Finds details of the articles which are
  referenced by your original article

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Times Cited (moving forward in time)

• Finds works published since which have referenced
  your original article
• Excellent for getting recent references
• Remember, if you start with a fairly recent
  journal article, it may not yet have been cited
  many times

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Sample search in WOS
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Search Result
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Full reference
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Related References

• Moves your research laterally
• Displays a list of articles whose cited reference
  lists include at least one of the sources cited
  by the original (parent) article
• Ranked by the number of shared references those
  sharing the most references are displayed first
• Excellent for retrieving lots of results, but
  will require some sorting to weed out irrelevant
  articles

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Related references
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Citation Alerts

• Use this feature to register your interest in
  particular article(s)
• You will then receive an email every time any of
  those articles is cited by a new addition to the
  database
• One you have located an article you want to add
  to your list, click on the Create Citation Alert
  button
• You can review your list by choosing View My
  Cited Articles List from the WoK homepage

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Journal citation reports

• For Sciences and Social Sciences
• This is a measure of the frequency with which the
  "average article" in a journal has been cited in
  a particular year. The impact factor will help
  you evaluate a journal's relative importance,
  especially when you compare it to others in the
  same field
• From within a record you can click on Journal
  Citation Reports to view the impact factor of the
  journal
• Or you can view and compare impact factors of all
  journals within your subject area

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JCR
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Journal search on JCR
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Impact factor of the journal Science
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Search result for the journal Science
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ISI Highlycited.com

• Allows you to search for a specific researcher
  and see how highly cited their work is
• Use the View Publications List button to see
  details of their published works, and of articles
  citing them
• Keep in mind that this feature is quite new and
  only 250 authors are included currently

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Other services offering citation searching -
SCOPUS

• On trial in Oxford until September 2006
• Sciences and Social Sciences
• Results include journal articles and web pages
• Each reference to a paper shows the number of
  times an article has been cited

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Sample Search in Scopus