ISI Web of Science Training Workshop Louisa Lam Medical Librarian 25 January 2005

Web of Science Databases Science Citation Index Expanded –A multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the sciences of more than 150 disciplines –Includes 5,900 scholarly science & technical journals –1985-present Social Sciences Citation Index –Includes 3,300 scholarly science & technical journals –1956-present Arts & Humanities Citation Index –Includes 7,000 scholarly science & technical journals –1975-present

How to access Medical Library Home Page –Highlights > Electronic Resources – Databases –7 user licenses, sometimes licenses may exceed Library Catalogue

Click to go

Click one of the buttons to start searching Select the database(s) to be included in the search Select the timespan

Searching General Search by –Topic –Author –Group author –Source title: journal title –Address: address of the author Advanced Search –combine different search sets

Enter search term(s) in one or more field boxes. You may limit your search by language or publication types You may make use of these indexes to look for search terms

Search Questions 1.How many papers were authored / co-authored by Professor Fok Tai Fai? 2.Is there any differences in results if only the Science Citation Index Expanded is selected? 3.How many papers were authored / co-authored by Professor Fok Tai Fai working in Chinese University of Hong Kong? 4.How many papers were authored / co-authored by Professor Fok Tai Fai working in Chinese University of Hong Kong and may sometimes associate himself with Prince of Wales Hospital in Hong Kong?

Searching Search the address fields: –Use abbreviations –Check the online abbreviation list for the desired abbreviation –Chinese University of Hong Kong = chinese univ hong kong –Prince of Wales Hospital = prince wales hosp –Hong Kong = Hong Kong, Peoples R China, Hong Kong Special Adm Region

Check this online abbreviation list for the desire abbreviation Any two search terms in the field boxes will be combined automatically in the search by applying “AND” operator.

Searching –AND: two terms must be present –OR: two terms appear at either or one record –NOT: exclude one term from another –SAME: proximity Boolean operators: –All in capital letters –Could be used in General Search or Advanced Search AB A B

You could also key in the search terms in this box

Navigate Within A Record Cited References – The author’s sources. Times Cited – Papers that have cited this paper. Related Records – Link to papers that reference the same sources as this particular paper. They are related through co-citation.

Navigate Within A Record

Original Article Related Article Shared references with the related article

2004 Cited References Times Cited Related Records  Citing  Original Article Moving backward Moving forward

Results Analysis

Citation Alert A citation alert notifies you by whenever an article has been cited by a new article. Registration is required. After the first registration, you must sign-in.

Click the button to create a citation alert of this record

Input your address and registered password.

View Full Text Click the button to view the full text of the article Or click the button to check holdings in CUHK library catalogue

Printing, Saving, ing Records Mark the records you want to output and then click submit Click to view the marked list

Printing, Saving, ing Records

More on Author Search 1.How many papers were authored by Professor Sung Jao Yiu Joseph of the Chinese University of Hong Kong? 2.How many papers were authored by Lam Leung Suei Yee?

Forms of Names Beware of different forms of names: –Sung JY (Sung Jao Yiu) –Sung JJY (Sung Joseph Jao Yiu) –Sung J (Sung Joesph) –Sung JJ (Sung Joesph Jao) Married Woman –their husband’s family name + their maiden name e.g Lam Leung Suei Yee –In US, some use their maiden name + husband’s family name e.g. Hillary Rodham Clinton

Exercise How many papers have been published by staff of the Chinese University of Hong Kong from 1980 onwards as recorded in ISI Web of Science?

Exercise Answer Change the default setting of timespan to 1980 Use parentheses to override the original the operator precedence: SAME, NOT, AND, OR To use operator other than “AND” to combine two or more than two searches, it must be done in Advanced Search mode

Other Search Skills Enter words and phrases without quotation marks Wildcards & Truncations SymbolsExamples * 0 to many characters e.g Child* will retrieve child, children, childbirth sul*ur will retrieve sulfur, sulphur ? One character only nurse? will retrieve nurses only $ one or 0 character Labo$r will retrieve labor and labour

Cited Reference Search Enables you to find articles that have cited a previously published work Enables you to discover how a known idea or innovation has been confirmed, applied, improved, extended, or corrected

Cited Reference Search 1.Enter the name of a Cited Author and the abbreviated title of a Cited Work. Then click Search. 2.If you retrieve too many hits, return to the form and add a Cited Year or a limited range of cited years. 3.After you click Search, you will see references from the citation index that contain the cited author/cited work data you entered. 4.Select references from the citation index, and then click Finish Search. You will retrieve records of articles that cite the references you selected from the citation index.

Click this button to start the search

Enter the name of one of the authors of the cited publication Enter the abbreviated journal title. Look up abbreviations of the cited work in the list of journal abbreviations Click to start search

These two references refer to the same selected work but are bibliographically incorrect. Click to retrieve papers that have referenced the work(s) selected. Tick the box to select the reference(s) to be included in the search

The original article from where the cited reference is found The 1 st related article found in the original article Total no. of papers that have cited the reference

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