WISER Citation searching with Web of Knowledge Sue
WISER: Citation searching with Web of Knowledge Sue Bird and Judy Reading
Citation Searching with Wo. K Web of Knowledge includes: Social Science Citation Index Arts & Humanities 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 Wo. K to use all facilities such as citation alerts, table of contents alerts, saved searches and Endnote web
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
Click here for the Wo. K citation indexes
globali? ation You can do a Quick search or General search on Wo. K 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.
See results – note you can mark references and print, email, save or export them to reference software
Search Hints Authors names: entered in a particular format (check the online help). If possible use the database index to find different forms of author’s name, otherwise truncate first initial. l Combine terms with “and” where you want both and “or” for alternatives. l Consider subject synonyms & British and US spellings. l Apply truncation, usually * to find plurals/alternative word endings and ? to replace a single character. l Expand search by following hypertext links, e. g. for alternative subject headings. l Use tagging facilities within database to mark articles for printing, emailing, downloading or exporting. l Wo. K does not offer a subject thesaurus – you search on words in title, abstract and in author keywords l
Could use Author finder option
This highlights the advantage of using the truncation * after the first initial as you can’t always be absolutely certain that the author will consistently use the same format of their name.
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 Oxford’s TDNet electronic journal database
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)
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.
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.
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
Break for hands-on exercise
Cited reference search: Look to see where an author or a particular work has been cited
Remember to abbreviate the initial
Note this useful hint – mistakes in citations by authors There are 224 items listed for this author
If we want to narrow things down we could just put in the year.
Top line is the correct reference with a full text link as well 2 nd line volume number is WRONG 3 rd 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.
So by finding who has cited the 2003 article we have moved forward in time
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
As you can see from this example – there actually 211 different versions of this citation …
… which have been cited by 586 authors.
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
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
Here we are looking up impact factors for geography journals
About impact factors
Can sort journals alphabetically, total cites, impact factor etc
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 Wo. K-indexed article
You will need to register and sign in to set up alerts, save searches or use Endnote. Web
Choose Search History to save searches for alerts or to re-run them yourself
Choose Save history to save a search or Open saved history to retrieve one you have already saved
Create citation alert – will email you or send a message to a RSS feed when someone cites this reference
Endnote Web • Free references managing software available with Wo. K • Allows you to store your references • You need to register
Mark the references you want then click on Save to my Endnote web
This is what Endnote Web looks like when you are logged in
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.
Further help when you need it • • Wo. K provides lots of online help and tutorials Today’s presenters can be contacted at sue. bird@ouls. ox. ac. uk or judy. reading@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
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