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Web of Science®

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• What Web of Science can do for me ?– Retrieve accurate citation counts and create citation report.

– Trace a particular research forward or backward in time to see how works grow and develop in a focused area.

– Analyze the published papers, and identify research trends

– Integrate searching, writing, and bibliography with EndNote.

Outline

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Web of Science®

• The world’s best scholarships across all the disciplines provide RELEVANT contents to all scholars

• Cover-to-cover indexing, unique search tools and integrated navigation enable PRECISE search

• More than 100 years of global research history brings a DEEP understanding of the development of your topic

• Publisher-neutral and rigorous contents selection policy is time-tested, OBJECTIVE way to find most reliable literature

• Used by more than 3,800 institutions in 90 countries world-wide, most AUTHENTIC source of world-class research discovery

• Refine, analyze and map the COLLABORATIVE pattern of scholarly research

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SELECTIVE, yet COMPREHENSIVE.

Discover the world’s best scholarship.

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Process of Research

Web of Science

Derwent Innovations Index

EndNoteWebEndNote Bibliography Software

ScholarOne-Manuscript Central

Journal Citation Reports

Essential Science Indicators

ResearcherID.com

search

analyze

discover

write

cite

review

evaluate

publish

promote

submit

ISI Web of Knowledge

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Web of Science® Collection

•Science Citation Index Expanded•8,300 major journals across 150 disciplines.•1900 to present.

SCIE

•Social Science Citation Index •2,800 journals across 55 social science disciplines•1900 to present

SSCI•Arts & Humanities Citation Index•2,300 arts and humanities journals•1975 to present

A&HCI

CPCI•Conference Proceedings Citation Index•12,000 conference proceedings •1990 to present

100 years Collection Depth

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• Journal Evaluation– Basic Journal Standards– Editorial Content– International Diversity – Citation Analysis

• To Get Core Journals– Most of the important papers are published in relatively few journals( Bradford's Law).– Core journals contain latest and most important researches.– 10% core journals account for about 80% of published articles

and more than 90% of cited articles.

Web of Science Important Concept

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http://thomsonreuters.com/products_services/science/free/essays/journal_selection_process/

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Web of Science Paper Citation Analysis

Using a high quality paper to expand your research

Cited References

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2003Times Cited

Related Records

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Trace Backward

Interdisciplinary

Trace Forward

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How to start?

• There are many ways to begin literature search, generally we have:

– Keywords (most commonly use)– Begin from a paper given by your mentor– References from a given paper– Journals in your interest of subject areas– Authors, if you know some …

• As a beginner, we will only talk about keyword search in topics or titles

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How to Get Started with Web of Science

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Web of Science Homepage

Personal Services

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Using Search Operators＊、 ? 、＄、 AND、 OR、 NOT、 SAME to search

Enter the termsTopic= economic* AND Address= taiwan

Choose year and databaseSSCI, A&HCI, CCPI-SSH

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WOS Results

1.Refine Results2.Sort by3.Analyze Result4.Abstract and Full Text5.Export Citation

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Refine/Analyze results

Subject Areas

DocumentTypes

Authors

SourceTitles

Publication Years

ConferenceTitle

Institution

CountriesTerritories

Search results

Languages

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Analyze ResultsWOS can analyze up to 100,000 results by different ways including authors, countries, institutions, source titles, subject areas, publication years, languages and source types.

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Analysis Results

Submit Here. After analyzing results, it will show Record Count, Percentage and Bar Chart.

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Create Citation ReportIt shows published articles and cited times every year in the topic you have searched by graph.

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h-index• Created by a Canadian physicist Jorge Hirsch in 2005.• It is used to evaluate researchers comprehensive development• Example: If the h-index is 31st , it means that the researchers or institutions published at least 31 articles and every article was cited at least 31 times averagely .

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Records ：Full TextTitleAuthorSourceCited ArticleReferenceAbstractLanguageArticle TypeKeywords PlusAuthor AddressPublicationSubject ClassificationIDS NumberISSN

Complete Article Reference

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Cited byCited Times：• Subject latest development• Article reviews

Related Records• List the articles that cite at

least one document cited by the parent article

• To know the subject relationship

References• Subject origin• Research basis

Trace Search Development

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Time Cited

Trace Backward

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Cited References

To know the subject origin and research basis

Click the title link to see the full article record.

Trace Forward

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Related Records

Related RecordShow the articles that cited at least one same article with the parent article.

Sort by the relevance.

To discover subject relationship, especially the different subject research.

Click title link to see the full article record

Click Shared Refs to browse shared reference list

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Set Citation Map Direction

Choose Citation Map Depth

Trace Article Development— Citation Map(Visual Presentation)

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cited and citing articles information

It will show the article information below whenever you click the article.

Trace Article Development—Citation Map(Visual Presentation)

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Citation Map can be sorted or colored by author, title, Journal title, publish year, document type, subject category, language, country and institution.

Trace Article Development—Citation Map(Visual Presentation)

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Seek for Related Researchers- By author

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Engineering, Chemistry

Ploymer Science

Chemistry, Physical

Energy & Fuels

Environmental Sciences

Seek for Future Developable Subject Areas –

• Nanoscience & Nanotechnology• Metallurgy & Metallurgical Engineering• Materials science, Coating & Films• Food Science & Technology

Chemistry, Multidisciplinary

Water Resources

Zoology

Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology

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By subject category

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Seek for Future Transnational Corporations -By country

People R. China

France

India

Japan

Brazil

PolandUSA Taiwan

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Citation Alert

Create citation AlertWOS will notify you by e-mail whenever a document has been cited by a new article.

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Create Citation Alert

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WOS Export and Save

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Choose the reference records you want to export

5 Exportation Ways- Print- Save- Email- Export to EndNoteWeb- Export to Reference Manage Software

- EndNote- Reference Manager

WOS Export Records

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Save/Open Search History

WOS Save Search History

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Save Search History

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Thank You!

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