Citation Searching with Web of Knowledge

Gabriella Netting & Louise Colver

Overview of session

How to use Oxlip to find e-resourcesHow to access WOK locally and remotelyHow to register for Athens password and

username How to search for citations

Oxlip on the Web

What is ISI Web of Knowledge?

A group of databases for searching multidisciplinary content

ISI Web Science, ISI Proceedings and Journal Citation reports.

Web of Science

All subject areas – Science, Social Science, Arts & Humanities

1970 – and updated weeklySome links to full text of articles via “TOUR”

buttonDirect access from Oxford, personal Athens

access from elsewhereTo register use: Oxlip/Title/Athens

Registration/Personal Registration

Athens Registration

WOK on Oxlip

Web of Science

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)

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

Times Cited (moving forward in time)

Finds works published since which have referenced your original article

Excellent for getting recent referencesRemember, if you start with a fairly recent

journal article, it may not yet have been cited many times

Sample search in WOS

Search Result

Full reference

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

Related references

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

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

JCR

Journal search on JCR

Impact factor of the journal “Science”

Search result for the journal “Science”

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

Other services offering citation searching - SCOPUS

On trial in Oxford until September 2006Sciences and Social SciencesResults include journal articles and web

pagesEach reference to a paper shows the

number of times an article has been cited

Sample Search in Scopus