But it is also useful as a general searching tool. Web of Science is easy to use, has a good help system and has lots of extras that other databases don't have such as a list of journals covered, definitions, etc. The following notes and tips are arranged roughly by screen, as you see them when using the database. Choose full search. Choose a time period.
Address is a useful tool for narrowing an indefinite author search.
You must enter the term as the author uses it, though- no easy trick. Truncation is a definite boon here, so is the operator 'same' which seems to refers to the same line in this context. Don't forget that a parent organization or sub-department might be used by the author, rather than the term you have in mind. A big advantage to the online version of the Citation indexes is that you can search by second author, but only if that article is, in fact, indexed in the database. To be thorough, one might better search for the paper and then use the first author for a citation search.