Why choose Web of Science?
- Web of Science is a large-scale indexing database similar to Scopus.
- Search for articles, conference proceedings, online early articles, and more.
- It includes social science, science and interdisciplinary content.
Features:
- Use the advanced search page for a precise search.
- This page has codes for searching specific fields such as TS=() Topic, which searches the title, abstract, and keywords fields.
| Example question: How can I find articles that use data from the CARDIA Project? |
| Searching |
Format for Search |
| Keyword searching |
TS=(CARDIA) |
| Title searching |
TI=(CARDIA) |
| Abstract searching |
AB=(CARDIA) |
| Exact phrase search (Quotes for exact phrases) |
TS=("CARDIA Project") |
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Adjacency Searching (NEAR/# where # is the
maximum number of words that separate terms)
|
TS=(Cardia NEAR/3 Project) |
Personal Author Research Metrics
- Researchers can use the author metrics in support of annual reviews, tenure, promotion, and grant applications.
- Search for an author’s name in the Researchers Search tab to find an algorithmically generated researcher information page.
Journal Citation Reports
- Journal Citation Reports (JCR), part of Web of Science, provides users with publication and citation information on peer-reviewed journals in a variety of academic disciplines.
- Use JCR to help choose journals appropriate for manuscript submission for your research.
- Additionally, journal metrics of your published articles can be helpful for your own personal author metrics.
- For more information, see Journal Metrics
The design of this page was partly adapted from Research: By Course, Subject, or Topic, by University of Arizona Libraries, © 2020 The Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of The University of Arizona, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.