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How to Analyze Web of Science

Web of Science is an index to the articles and papers of over 10,000 high impact journals and a number of conferences. You can search by keyword, author, publication, etc. It also gives you the ability to analyze your results to find journals that publish a number of articles in the subject, institutions that do research in the field, funding agencies, and more.

Step One -Select Web of Science from the Database list

Select Web of Science from the databases by title list on the home page.
Web of Science will be under the "W" section

Step Two - Go to the Search option on the Web of Science and type in your search topic

Note the analyze results link. Click on this link.

The results page will show up

Step Three -Analyze results options. Note that you also can rank by institution, funding agency, year and more.

When on the analyze results page, you can rank by institution, funding agency or more
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Step four - Results for an institution search. This option analyzes the affiliations of authors and lists them in numerical order. Whiel the default is 10 institutions you can change this number when doing the initial analysis in Set Display Options.

A list of institutions will pop up.

Step Five
You may select one of the institutions and go directly to the articles from this institution, in this case Argonne National Laboratory.

Here are the search results from the Argonne National Laboratory.

 

Points to Remember

  • Web of Science is selective -it does not cover all journals or conferences and does not index reports
  • Get it! Works in WoS so give it a try
  • You may save your results in a number of formats - check the options at the top of a record
  • Use the suggestions on right side of an article record or the left side on a results display to help find additional information on your topic
  • See Web of Science -Advanced Features mini module for additional information
  • For additional help, contact Bonnie Osif, or call the Engineering Library at 814-865-3451


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