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Web of Science – A Short Insight
1. Philosophische Fakultät, Institut für Kommunikationswissenschaft, Lehrstuhl II
Dresden, 31.05.2013
Web of Science
Some important features and potentials of
search tasks
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Inhalt
1. Access Requirements
2. Basic Information
3. Researcher ID
4. Analytic Features
4.1 Author’s Publication Activities
4.2 Trends and Developments of Themes
4.3 Monitoring
5. Are There Alternatives?
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1. Access Requirements
The use is charged – generally libraries grant
access (e.g. SLuB)
Application has to be done via ZIH-Login or
SLuB Profile (VPN-Client, at SLuB Computers)
Homepage:
via SLuB Search ‚Web of Science‘ or
direct www.webofknowledge.com
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2. Basic Information
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Weekly update
Citations
• cited articles in an article
• cited authors in an article
• how often authors are cited, and from whom. Even
for external articles.
Related Records
• Detection of similar articles
Citation Report
h-Index
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Co-authors in cited
articles
authors, who cite this
author‘s articles
Locations of co-authors
4. Analytic Features: Author‘s Publication Activities
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Co-authors in cited
articles
authors, who cite this
author‘s articles
Locations of co-authors
Locations of authors, who
cite this author‘s articles
…
4. Analytic Features: Author‘s Publication Activities
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5. Are There Alternatives?
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Main Problems of Web of Science
• Focus on US-american Journals
• Criteria for subscribed selection of Journals
are not clarified satisfying
• Small number of Open Access Journals
• Small number of conference articles
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5. Are There Alternatives?
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Web of Science Scopus
ETHBibliothekZürich.
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Literature
ETH Bibliothek Zürich. URL:
http://www.library.ethz.ch/Ressourcen/Datenbanken/Web-of-Science [Stand:
18.02.2013]
Scopus. URL: http://www.scopus.com/ [Stand: 22.02.2013]
Universitätsbibliothek Basel. URL: http://www.ub.unibas.ch/ub-
hauptbibliothek/recherche/elektronische-medien/zugangsberechtigung/web-of-
knowledge/ [Stand: 21.02.2013]
Web of Science. URL:
http://apps.webofknowledge.com/WOS_GeneralSearch_input.do?product=WOS
&SID=Q16J5lNdaC16egg4Oh1&search_mode=GeneralSearch
Tutorials for Web of Science
http://thomsonreuters.com/products_services/science/training/wos/
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