To retrieve an unedited list of your author’s works
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Click on Web of Science
Select Author in the field box. Type in the author name, last name first, space, initial. If 2 initials are used type them together with no spacing between the letters. Example:
Jones A
Jones AB
The asterisk is useful for including a variety of other ways an author may have followed up his first initial in publishing an article, for example: Jones A*.
Click Search
Click on Create Citation Report (on right above results list) to learn the author’s h-index and total times cited. The number of published items each year and number of citations in each year are presented in graph form.
If the results list includes papers of other authors who have the same name, you will want to create a marked list of only your author’s papers.
- Click in the box to the left of each citation belonging to your author, then click the button Add to Marked List at top of results list
- If all references on one page belong to your author you can go to Output Records at the bottom of the page, step 1, select All Records on Page, and then click on Add to Marked List in step 3. Go to next page and repeat the process.
- If all references on every page belong to author, select Records under step 1, Output Records, at the bottom of the page and insert the beginning and ending record numbers. Click Add to Marked List.
After the marked list is created, click on the Marked List button near top of screen.
In the Output Options box you will have several choices for managing the marked list: print, email or save to file.
The list of citations that you marked will appear below the Output Options box.
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Finding List of References on a Specific Topic
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Click on Web of Science
Choose Topic in the field box and enter keywords as explained below.
- Use quotation marks to find exact phrases. For example, "soil drainage" finds soil drainage, but not drainage of soil.
- Use terms without quotation marks to find records that contain those terms. For example, soil drainage finds soil drainage, drainage of soil, soil type and drainage, and so on.
- When searching for a variety of endings on a word use an asterisk at the end, for example: atmos* picks up atmosphere, atmospheric, atmospheres.
Click Search
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Finding a Complete List of Citation Numbers for Authors
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Click on Web of Science
Select Cited Reference Search
Type in the author name, last name first, space, initial. If 2 initials are used type them together with no spacing between the letters. Example:
Jones A
Jones AB
The asterisk is useful for including a variety of other ways an author may have followed up his first initial in publishing an article, for example: Jones A*.
Click Search
The list returned to you can be used as it is, because it tells you citation numbers for the author’s publications on the right side of screen. Keep in mind it may include papers of other authors who have the same name. On the right side click on View Record, then Times Cited to see list of citing papers for that article.
To refine the list above mark the author’s records and click Finish Search to see a list of articles that cited all the papers you marked (only marked papers published since 1972).
To obtain a total of number of times cited mark your author’s records and manually add the numbers in the times cited column. |
How to Set Up a Personal Account in Web of Science
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Click on Web of Science
Click on Register in box on right under Customize Your Experience
Enter your name, email address and create a password. Make your choice for automatic sign in.
Click on Submit Registration.
With a personal account you can
- Save search strategies.
- Set up subject search alerts that let you know when new papers are published on a particular subject or author alerts that notify you of the author’s newly published papers.
- Set up citation alerts that let you know when a specific paper has been cited by new papers added to the database.
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To set up an alert for new papers published by a specific author
or new papers on a specific topic
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Click on Web of Science
Under Customize Your Experience on the right side of screen click on Sign In and enter your email address and password.
Author search:
Type in the author name, last name first, space, initial. If 2 initials are used type them together with no spacing between the letters. Example:
Jones A
Jones AB
The asterisk is useful for including a variety of other ways an author may have followed up his first initial in publishing an article, for example: Jones A*.
Topic search
Choose Topic in the field box and enter keywords as explained below.
- Use quotation marks to find exact phrases. For example, "soil drainage" finds soil drainage, but not drainage of soil.
- Use terms without quotation marks to find records that contain those terms. For example, soil drainage finds soil drainage, drainage of soil, soil type and drainage, and so on.
- When searching for a variety of endings on a word use an asterisk at the end, for example: atmos* picks up atmosphere, atmospheric, atmospheres.
Click Search
Click on Search History at top of screen
Check the box on the right for the set number and click on Save History/Create Alert
Log into your personal account if you haven’t already
Name the search in the History Name field
Mark the box next to “Send Me E-Mail Alerts”
Select weekly or monthly for e-mail frequency
Click on Save to save your history to the server
Click Done
Your alert will be active for one year. To renew for another year login with your personal login, click on My Saved Searches under My Web of Knowledge on the right, click on the Renew button for your search. |
To set up alert to learn when a specific paper has been cited by new papers added to the database
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Click on Web of Science
Follow the directions for searching by author or topic listed on the other side of this page
When you find the article you want, click on the title to go to the full record
In the box on the right click on Create Citation Alert
Click Done
You will now receive e-mail alerts on future citations to this record.
These instructions were created by the NCAR Library which subscribes to Web of Science for the use of UCAR staff. For more information contact us at ncarref@ucar.edu or (303) 497-8505. Revised
8/13/08 |
