Tutorial on creating citation reports and conducting cited reference searches for promotion and tenure in Web of Science.

1. Citation Searching in Web of Science
 This tutorial will cover:
About Web of Science page 2
Accessing Web of Science page 3
Conducting an Author Search page 4
Using a ResearcherID page 8
Creating a Citation Report page 10
Conducting a Cited Reference Search page 12
Search Operators page 16

2. About Web of Science
 The Web of Science (WOS) Core Collection’s coverage begins in
1993 and includes Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)
(prev. called Science Citation Index), Social Sciences Citation
Index (SSCI), Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI).
 WOS Citations Reports only cover the journals included in
WOS’s databases. Books, articles, conference proceedings and
other publications by the author in question not in WOS are not
included. Additionally, citations from works not included in the
WOS databases are not included.

3. Accessing Web of Science
To access Web of Science, type the database’s name into the search box in the
center of the Libraries’ homepage and click on the link.

4. Author Search
Select “Author Search” from Search dropdown list

5. Author Search
1) Enter author’s last name and initials
2) Click “Add Author Name Variant” to
include alternate names the author may
have published under
3) Click “Select Research Domain”

6. Author Search
1) Select field(s) that apply to author’s work
2) Click “Select Organization

7. Author Search
1) Select author’s
organization(s), including
current and past associations
2) Click “Finish Search”

8. Author Search Number of publications by
Stephen Hawking in WOS
Use this panel to narrow results if necessary
Number of works
that cited an article
(click to see list)

9. ResearcherID
ResearcherID allows you to claim items published under variant names and
institutions (you must register with WOS).
1) Check items you
want to claim
2) Click “Save to ResearcherID”

10. Citation Report
Click “Create Citation Report”
A Citation Report can be created from most results list. It provides aggregate citation
statistics for a group of articles, publication and citation activity per year, average
citation per item, average citation per year and H-Index analysis.

11. Citation Report Statistics for all articles in set
Statistics for individual articles
Click to see
more years
Narrow list by
publication year
Remove articles from list
Print, email or export as text or Excel file

12. Cited Reference Search
Conduct a Cited Reference Search to find improperly formatted citations of a work or
to find citations of publications not included in WOS.
Select “Cited Reference Search”

13. Cited Reference Search
1) Enter Author’s Name
2) Enter Publication Title
using WOS abbreviation
(click here for list)
Cited reference search for: Hawking, S. W., & Horowitz, G. T. (1996). The gravitational
Hamiltonian, action, entropy and surface terms. Classical And Quantum Gravity, 13(6),
1487-1498.
3) Enter Publication Year
4) Click “Search”

14. Cited Reference Search
This is the WOS entry for the article
2) Check the entries that match article
These are variants (missing
issue #, similar page number)
3) Click “Finish Search”
1) Compare the entries with the complete citation to locate the variant citations

15. Cited Reference Search
Complete list of articles in the WOS Core Collection that cite “The gravitational
Hamiltonian, action, entropy and surface terms”.
Printing, emailing and saving options

16. Search Operators
Symbol Retrieves Example
* Zero or more characters
ethyl* = ethylene
ethylacetate
ethylformamide
*ethyl = methyl
dimethyl
hydroxyethyl
*ethyl* = trichloroethylene
methylpyridinium
? One character only
en?oblast = entoblast
endoblast
$ Zero or one character
eight$ = eight
eighth
eighty
For Topic searches, truncation requires a minimum of 3 characters
Wildcard Characters

17. All search terms must occur to be retrieved.
TOPIC: aspartame AND cancer*
Retrieves documents that contain both aspartame and cancer*.
Any one of the search terms must occur to be retrieved. Use when
searching variants and synonyms.
TOPIC: aspartame OR saccharine OR sweetener*
Retrieves documents that contain at least one of the terms.
Excludes records that contain a given search term.
TOPIC: aids NOT hearing
Retrieves documents with aids, excluding any which also contain
hearing.
Boolean Operators
Search Operators

18. Search Operators
Phrase
Searching
Exact matches for phrases can be found by searching on the terms enclosed in
quotation marks. Wildcard characters can be used inside quotation marks.
“electromagnetic field” = electromagnetic field
“electromag* field” = electromagnetic field
electromagnet’s field
Near/ Finds terms in the same field; user specifies proximity. Default is 15 words if user
does not specify a number.
electromag* near/3 field = electromagnetic field
electromagnetic radiation field
field pattern in electromagnetism
electromagnets created a strong field
Same Terms must occur within the same sentence. Use in Address field only.
By default, there is an implied AND connecting terms entered as a phrase. Searching a phrase
retrieves records that contain all searched terms found in the title, abstract or
key words fields.
electromagnetic field = electromagnetic AND field
Proximity Operators