WEB OF SCIENCETM CORE COLLECTION

Quick Reference Guide

What is Web of Science Core Collection?
Search over 61 million records from the top journals, conference proceedings, and books in thesciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities to find the high quality research most relevant
to your area of interest. Using linked cited references, explore the subject connections between
articles that are established by the expert researchers working in your field.

BASIC SEARCH

Use the drop down to searchanother content set on theWeb of Science.

Use “My Tools” to move to yourSaved Searches, EndNote onlineaccount, or ResearcherID.

Click the arrow to choose
another search option:••••Basic
Advanced
Cited Reference Search
Author Search

Search
Combine words andphrases to search acrossthe source records in theWeb of Science™ CoreCollection.

Limit Your Search

Select Your Search Field
Use the drop down to select yoursearch field. Search by Topic,Author, Publication Name, Funding
Agency, Organization-Enhanced,
Author Identifier Number orPubMed ID.

Change your search limits or limit the indexes
you wish to search. Click “More Settings” to see
the list of all the indexes included in your Web of
Science Core Collection subscription.

SEARCH OPERATORSWILD CARD CHARACTERS

AUTHOR NAME

Use AND to find records containing all of
your search terms

Use truncation for more control of theretrieval of plurals and variant spellings

Enter the last name first, followed by aspace and up to five initials.

Use OR to find records containing any ofyour search terms* = zero to many characters

Use truncation and search alternative
spelling to find name variants:

Use NOT to exclude records containing
certain words from your search
Use NEAR/n to find records containing
all terms within a certain number ofwords (n) of each other (stress NEAR/3sleep)
Use SAME in an Address search to findterms in the same line of the address(Tulane SAME Chem)1

Add another search field.

? = one character$ = zero or one character
Phrase searching
To search exact phrases in Topic or Title
searches, enclose a phrase in quotation
marks. For example, the query “energyconservation” finds records containing
the exact phrase energy conservation.

Driscoll C finds Driscoll C, Driscoll CM,Driscoll Charles, and so on.
Driscoll finds all authors with the lastname Driscoll
De la Cruz f* OR Delacruz f* finds
Delacruz FM, De La Cruz FM, and so on.

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SEARCH RESULTS
Sort results

Create Citation Reportby Publication Date (default), Times
Cited, Usage Count, Recently Added,
Source First Author or Conference
name.

Click Create Citation Report tosee a citation overview for any
set of results with fewer than
10,000 records.

Click “More” toview your fullsearch statement.
Click “Create Alert”
to save this searchstatement as asearch alert.
Refine your results
Use Refine Results
to mine your fullset of results to findthe top 100 Subject
Categories, Source
Titles, Publication
Years, Authors,
Funding Agencies
or Open Accesspublications.

Output search results
Export to bibliographic management
tools like EndNoteTM, send to InCitesTM foranalysis, save as text, email, or add up to5,000 records to your Marked List.
Save up to 50 Marked Lists containing amaximum of 5,000 records each.

Click Full Text to see
your full text options.
Click View Abstract
to open the abstract
on this page.

Click the article title to moveto the full record. Links to fulltext may also be available(subscription required).

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SEARCH RESULTS
Fields in a TOPIC search

Link to full text, libraryholdings or Google Scholar.

Title
All titles are indexed aspublished. Foreign language titles
are translated into US English.
Abstract
All abstracts are indexedas provided by the journal(1991 to present).
Author Keywords
and KeyWords Plus
Author Keywords are indexed
and searchable. KeyWords Plus
are words and phrases harvested
from the titles of the cited articles.
Click on the Keyword or Phrase toperform a search on the terms.

Author Names
All authors are indexed. Searchusing last name and initials (e.g.
garfield e*).

Addresses and Organization
Enhanced Names
All author addresses are indexed
and searchable. Reprint authore-mail addresses are listed whenavailable. Organization Enhanced
Names are used to help identify
institutions with complex names,
or with many address variations.

Citation Network•••••

Cited References
Times Cited Counts
Citation Mapping
Related Record Search
Citation Alerts

Times cited counts for the Webof Science Core Collection andthe Web of Science platform(including Web of ScienceCore Collection, Biosis Citation
IndexSM, Chinese Science
Citation DatabaseSM, Data
Citation IndexSM, Russian
Science Citation index andSciELO) are displayed oneach record. Counts reflect all
correct citations and are notlimited by your subscription.

See the number of full-text
downloads or bibliographic
exports for this item in the last
180 days or since 2013.

All cited references are indexed
and searchable via Cited
Reference Search. Click the“Cited References” link in theCitation Network to move tothe cited reference view.

Author IdentifiersResearcherIDs and ORCID
IDs are searchable anddisplayed when available.
ResearcherIDs are harvested
from public profiles at
www.researcherid.com.
ORCID data is harvested fromwww.orcid.org.

Funding Information
Funding agency, grant
numbers, and the funding
acknowledgement text issearchable (for SCIE records from2008 to present and for SSCI
and ESCI records from 2015 topresent).

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CITED REFERENCE SEARCH
Step One• Use the drop down arrow to navigate to Cited Reference Search.
• Search by Cited Title, Cited Author, Cited Work, Cited Year, Volume, Issue, or Page.
• Use the Journal Abbreviations List for help with abbreviations.

CITED REFERENCE SEARCH TIPS:• Use wild card characters (see page 1) on
Cited Authors and Cited Work.

Step Two• Look for variants (sometimes papers arecited incorrectly) before finishing yoursearch.

Select the references, includingvariants, to include in your search,then click “Finish Search” to display
your search results.

• The “Citing Articles” count reflects
citations from all years and all editionsof the Web of Science Core Collection –even those years and editions you don’t
subscribe to.
• All cited references are indexed andsearchable, including references to books,patents, government documents, etc.
Secondary cited authors, full source titles,
and non-standard source abbreviations areautomatically searched across all source
records in the Web of Science. Keep inmind that a search of this sort may only
return partial results.
• Since 2012, all references to ‘non source’
items (Books, Newspaper Items, etc.)
are fully indexed (full list of authors,full title, etc.) as published. Click “ShowExpanded Titles” to see the full reference
information.

Science Head Offices

YOUR WEB OF SCIENCE PROFILE• Save records to EndNote online• Create Citation Alerts• Integrate with ResearcherID• Save your custom search settings• Save search histories• Save to Marked Lists• Create Search Alerts

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