1. Citation Searching with Web of Knowledge
Roger Mills
OULS Bio- and Environmental Sciences Librarian

2. Overview of Session What is citation indexing Why is it useful
How to use it on Web of Science
Citation searching on other products
Getting full text, setting up alerts and organising your references with RefWorks or EndNote

3. Citation indexing
Invented in 1961 by Eugene Garfield at the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI)
Scientific abstracting/indexing services began in nineteenth century, recording author/title/publisher/source etc for articles and indexing them
Garfield added details of all references quoted in the article and indexed them too, publishing results as Science Citation Index (SCI) – originally only in printed form
Allowed for many new ways of linking articles

4. Exciting new ways For an article you’ve read:
Find earlier articles that one was based on
Find later articles which quoted it
Find related articles which quote some of the same references as this one
So you can trace the progress of ideas backwards, sideways and, uniquely, forwards in time

5. And
You can identify which journals publish most highly-cited articles – the notorious ‘impact factor’
Publishing your work in high-impact journals is important in getting funding!

6. also
Discover who is citing your research, or that of a colleague, or noted authority
Identify sources of information that competitors are consulting for their research
Construct an objective history of a field of study, significant invention, or discovery

7. Originally Using the paper Science Citation Index was hard work
Now, the electronic version is much quicker to use
But can be complex and confusing – important to understand what it does and doesn’t do
Caveat emptor!
SCI now has competitors, but all work slightly differently – e.g. Scopus, Google Scholar
The basic concept of linking documents which cite each other, and ranking them according to the frequency with which they do so, underpins search engines like Google

8. Want to know more?
Wikipedia is a good source – try

9. In the real world
Science Citation Index is now part of Web of Science, which includes Social Science Citation Index and Arts and Humanities Citation Index
Web of Science is a product offered on the platform Web of Knowledge (WoK), alongside other products including Journal Citation Reports which gives journal impact factors.
Direct access available on Oxford network: use Athens password outside Oxford
Athens registration:

14. Cited Reference Search

15. Sample search

20. Times cited = citing articles

22. Cited references

23. Find related records

27. 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

28. Citation Alerts
Use this feature to register your interest in particular article(s)
You will then receive an 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

32. Citation alerts – register first

34. Export to Reference Software

36. EndNote Web Library

37. Analyzing results

40. Journal Citation Reports (JCR)
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

42. JCR

43. Journal search on JCR

44. Impact factor for the journal “Ann Rev Biochem”

45. 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 fopr each of 21 subject areas

48. Search for Dwek – not there!

49. Sir John Krebs - present

52. Other services offering citation searching - SCOPUS
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

53. Sample Search in Scopus

61. Citation searching Is very useful Should be used with care
Excellent for keeping up with new articles and people
Bibliometrics is an art not a science!
For further help contact your subject librarian – see