Category: Web of Science

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

There is a new 2024 update to the Journal Citation Reports (JCR). The reports provide a comprehensive resource of high-quality journals, ranked by field to enable academic institutions, researchers and publishers to investigate the ranking of journals in the global research landscape.  The rankings include the addition of the Emerging Sources Citation Index. Only journals that…Continue Reading Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Retracted articles – shown on CityLibrary search

As a researcher, it is good to know about the status of articles, as you may be aware,  sometimes journal articles can be retracted because they include either accidental or deliberate errors.  The retraction could be due to incorrect experimental or interpretive errors and is to prevent researchers from being wrongly informed and wasting time…Continue Reading Retracted articles – shown on CityLibrary search

New Web of Science interface

All Web of Science users will be directed to the new Web of Science platform from 7 July 2021.The new interface has been running in parallel with the existing one since November 2020  and has undergone development and enhancements based on user feedback including: Improved search capabilities Faster page loading Increased accessibility features Responsive design…Continue Reading New Web of Science interface

Research resource of the week @cityunilibrary – Web of Science

Web of Science is an integrated multidisciplinary  database  from Thomson  Reuters covering 9300 of the highest impact research journals  in the world back to 1970  which includes and allows both general and citation searching . It is updated weekly has current and retrospective coverage of the: Science Citation Index Social Sciences Citation Index Arts &…Continue Reading Research resource of the week @cityunilibrary – Web of Science

Web of Science/ Google Scholar partnership

Web of Science has now partnered with Google Scholar to make their content more discoverable. This means that you can see Google Scholar links on Web of Science. To do this, do a search, click on the title of the result and then click on Look up Full Text and this will display any Google…Continue Reading Web of Science/ Google Scholar partnership

Web of Knowledge Enhancements May 2013

Web of Knowledge enhancements 2013 Enhanced Author search There are 3 search options for retrieving papers associated with an author name 1. Select ‘Author’ from the Web of Science search menu 2. Use the Author Search Tool This allows selection of the research domain and institution 3. Search for papers using the Author Identifier (ResearcherID…Continue Reading Web of Knowledge Enhancements May 2013

Bibliometrics

The Web of Science database is very useful for citation or cited reference searching. Citation searching is a specialised type of searching which allows searching for articles or chapters which cite a particular work. This indicates relationships between works and also to some extent the impact a work has made on others in the field….Continue Reading Bibliometrics