Social Sciences Web of Knowledge

1. Social SciencesWeb of Knowledge Angela Carritt Victoria Endean

2. Workshop aims • By the end of the session you will be able to use the Social Science Citation Index on Web of Knowledge to… • Conduct a literature search • Link to full text and/or holding records • Track citations to a known article • Find related articles • E-mail, print and save results • Set up citation alerts • Access Journal Citation Reports from Web of Knowledge

3. Web of Knowledge • Web of Science • Social Science Citation Index • Arts and Humanities Citation Index • Science Citation Index • Journal Citation Reports • ISI Proceedings • Highly Cited…

4. Social Science Citation Index Vital statistics • Articles, books reviews, letters, creative works and more… • Significant articles from > 1,400 behavioural and social science journals • Selected articles from > 3,100 science journals • Approx. 130,000 records added per year. • 1970- • New records added weekly

5. Each record includes… • Full bibliographic details & abstract • TOUR link to full text online / holdings • Cited References - full list of all items cited in the article (e.g. article bibliography) • Times Cited - later items (on WOK) which cite the article • Related Records - All items (on WOK) which share at least one citation in common with the article

6. Other tools… • Analysis tool • Analyses results by author, institution, country, journal, subject area etc. • Can also be used to analyze citations to the parent article • Citation Alert • E-mails you when a new item is adding to the database which cites a chosen article

11. Cross Search – searches all WOK databases simultaneously • Social Science Citation Index • Literature searching • Citation tracking Science and technology only Journal Citation Reports – measure impact of journals (number of citations, impact, citation life etc)

12. 2. Select search type General Search – literature search Cited Ref Search – track citations to a known work Advanced Search – searching over a wider range of fields 1. Select database(s) to search across

13. Use the indexes for help selecting search terms Search by any of the fields either singly or in combination

14. Tips for searching • Break your query into keywords or phrases • Consider synonyms and alternative spellings e.g. American/British • Combine search terms using Boolean logic (the logical relationship between search terms) and, or, not, same

15. Tips for searching AND • Search for records containing all the terms entered – narrows search OR • Search for records containing any of the terms entered – broadens search NOT • Excludes specified term – narrows search SAME • Terms must appear in the same sentence

16. Boolean logic AND • Retrieves records in which both search terms are present All 3 search terms

17. Boolean logic OR • Retrieves records in which at least one of the search terms is present College University college OR university

18. Boolean logic NOT • Retrieves records where one search term, but not the other, is retrieved radiation nuclear radiation NOT nuclear

19. Tips for searching - brackets • Use brackets to determine the order terms are searched in • Search statements inside brackets are carried out before those outside the brackets (standard OR code) AND ethic* (infant* OR bab*) AND (drug* OR alcohol*) AND abus*

20. Tips for searching - wildcards Use truncation to find plurals and alternative endings * Represents any number of letters at the end of a word school* finds school, schools, schooling

21. Tips for searching - wildcards ? Represents one letter in a word ioni?ation finds ionisation and ionization $ Represents one letter or no letters Barthold$ finds Barthold, Bartholdi, Bartholdy

22. Workshop aims Terms used in search Move through results in sections or jump to another page of results Number of records found Hypertext link to article abstract

23. All items on the database which share one or more items in their bibliography Later items which cite this article Article’s bibliography

24. Workshop aims Use ‘tour’ to see the Oxford University holdings for this journal title

25. Article details Link to OLIS record for journal holdings Link to online details where available

26. Search within results to filter or narrow your search Sort results in a different order Selected records are added to the marked list

27. Marking and extracting records • Select the check box to the left of each record you want to mark – click “add to marked list” • Choose the option “select records on page” • Enter the range of records to print

28. Marking and extracting records • Select the fields to be included for each record • Selected records from subsequent searches can be added to the original “marked list”

29. Go to “marked list” after selecting the records you want to export

30. Select the fields you want to have exported Enter an email address if delivery is via this option Select the output option

31. To track citations to a known work

32. e.g. searching for citations to Simons, K “Rethinking mental states” Boston University Law Review 72 (3): 463-554 May 1992 Use “Thomson list” to check the correct abbreviation for the journal. Note sometimes there is more than one abbreviation. Use connectors if necessary e.g. Boston U* Law Rev*

33. Select the appropriate article by checking the tick box (to see title hover your mouse over view record). Then choose Finish Search

34. e.g. articles citing “Rethinking Mental States” Analyze the articles citing the parent record

35. Choose how to analyse the citations

36. e.g. analayzing the articles which cite “Rethinking Mental States” by author. 4 of the citation are by KW Simon, 3 by AC Michaels. Authors who have only cited the article once are not listed. To include them in the list change “Minimum record count (threshold)” to 1.

37. e.g. analayzing the articles which cite “Rethinking Mental States” by institution.

38. Advanced search – searching in a wider range of fields than general search

39. Specify the fields to search (e.g. ts=multiculturalism AND au=bloggs…) • Use connectors between search terms as in the general search • If you want to use connectors to combine your search term and to search across more than one field, you must use parentheses to separate the searches belonging to each field e.g. ts=(multicult* AND education*) AND py=(1999 or 2000)If your boolean search itself requires parentheses you must nest them e.g. ((law or legislation) SAME terror*) AND cu= (England or Scotland or Ireland) Available fields

40. e.g. ts= ((law or legislation) SAME terror*) AND cu= (England or Scotland or Ireland)

41. To view results click on the result number

42. e.g. search results for ((law or legislation) SAME terror*) AND cu= (England or Scotland or Ireland)

44. Statistical analysis of impact the impact of key journals

47. Calculating showing how often articles were cited during the first year after publication Number of years from current year accounting for 50% of citations Calculation showing how often the average article was cited during the year Total number of citations to the journal for the year More information at http://jcrweb.com/www/help/hjcrgls2.htm Impact factors should be used with care – see http://scientific.thomson.com/free/essays/journalcitationreports/

48. e.g. journals by impact factor