Web of Science&Scopus

Multidisciplinary bibliographic and citation searching databases

By: saif kazem radhi

Scientific Supervisor: Dr. Amir Hossein Sari
Sample of a journal publication
Citing publication

Cited publications

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CITATION has two meanings in library usage:

1. a bibliographic item of a work, e.g. journal

article, which includes the title of the
publication, the authors’ names, data of
sources (source title, volume, issue, pages,
publication year)
2. a quotation, which an author has received in a
paper published by other researcher

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What is Web of Science?
 A research platform from Thomson Reuters
(formerly ISI Web of Knowledge)
 Different databases are available on the
platform depends on subscriptions
 Semmelweis University has access to:
 Web of Science Core Collection
 Chinese Science Citation Database
 KCI-Korean Journal Database
 Scielo Citation Index
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What is Web of Science Core Collection?
 Multidisciplinary bibliographic database (formerly Web of Science)
 Includes full bibliographic information and citation searching
 Updated weekly
 Contains 5 indexes (at Semmelweis University):
 Science Citation Index Expanded
 Social Sciences Citation Index
 Arts & Humanities Citation Index
 Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Science
 Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Social Science & Humanities
 Timespan (in Hungary):
 1975 to present
 1990 to present (at Conference Proceedings Citation Indexes)
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Value-added services – My tools
(required registration)
 Create a private user  EndNote Basic/Online:
profile web-based reference
 Save searches and create organizer
search alerts (eg. RSS  ResearcherID:
feeds) heightens communication
 Citation Alerts among researchers in all
It allow you to monitor disciplines, increasing their
citation activity for any visibility and making their
WoS article. work more accessible

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Access
http://lib.semmelweis.hu

 On the
website of
Central
Library of
Semmelweis
University :
Sources -
Databases:
Web of
Science link

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Web of Science platform

Other access:
http://isiknowledge.com

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Select Web of Science Core Collection
database

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Web of Science Core Collection –
with 5 indexes

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Search options
 Basic Search:
general search by topic, author, DOI,
publication year, address, etc.
 Cited Reference Search
 Advanced Search

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Basic search – detailed search fields
 Topic: search the following fields within a record: title, abstract, author keywords, keywords plus®
 Title: search for the title of a publication
 Author: search for an author name of a publication (include group author too)
 Author Identifiers: search for unique identifier (ResearcherID or ORCID) of an author
 Group Author: search for corporate author name
 Editor: search for name of an editor
 Publication Name: search the source title (a.k.a. journal name) within a record
 DOI: search for digital object identifier (DOI®), which identifies the digital content on the web
 Year Published: search for publication year(s)
 Address: search for the full or partial name of an institution and/or location from an author's address
 Organizations-Enhanced: search for preferred organization names and/or their name variants from the
Preferred Organization Index
 Conference: search for conference title or location or date or sponsor
 Language: you can select one or more languages from a list
 Document Type: you can select one or more documents from the document list
 Funding Agency: search for a funding agency
 Grant Number: search for a grant number
 Accession Number: search for a unique identifying number associated with each record in Web of Science
 PubMed ID: search a unique identifier assigned to each MEDLINE record 12/86
Search tips
Truncation symbols / wildcard characters
* Zero or more characters Eg.: hydroxy*= hydroxylase, hydroxydopamine,
hydroxyethyl, etc.

? One character Eg.: en?oblast = entoblast, emndoblast

$ Eg.: col$r = color, colour

(cannot be used within Zero or one character
quotation marks)

Operators
AND The AND operator finds all terms entered. Eg.: allergy AND stress

OR When using OR, at least one term must occur. Your
search will retrieve articles that contain any one of
these terms.
NOT The NOT operator excludes terms from your search.
„…” If you would like to search for an exact phrase, enter it
in quotation marks.
NEAR/x NEAR finds terms within the same field, and allows
you to specify how far apart terms should be. If no
number is specified, the default is 15 words.
SAME The SAME operator is used only in the Address field
and retrieves terms that all occur within the same
address.
Source: https://www.brainshark.com/thomsonscientific/searchtipswok5_v2
Eg.: saccharine OR sweetener
Eg.: aids NOT hearing => will retrieve records about
the disease AIDS, not hearing aids
Eg.: „eating disorder”, „hearing loss”
Eg.: osmium near/3 hydroxy* => where osmium term
must be within a maximum of 3 words from the terms
beginning with hydroxy*
Eg.: yale SAME hospital
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Search for keywords (in Topic)

Use truncation symbols

(*, ?, $) and operators
(NEAR/x, SAME, NOT,
AND, OR)!

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Results list

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A bibliographic item

Extra information:
-Times Cited: how many papers cited this
publication in Web of Science Core Collection
database
-Full Text: sometimes the paper has a full text
button: if our institution's has subscription, you
can read the full text of the publication at the
publisher’s site
-View abstract: you can read the brief summary
(abstract) of the paper
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Results list – refine, process, analyze
3.
4.
2.
1.
1. Refine Results:
Results may be refined by e.g. categories, document types, subject
areas, authors, source titles, publication years, institutions,
languageas, or countries/territories.
2. Processing Records:
You can choose to print, e-mail, add to marked marked list, add to
ResearcherID or export to bibliographic manage software the records
that you have checked off.
3. Sort by:
The default sort is Publication Date (newest to oldest). You can
change the sort order of your results by e.g. times cited, relevance,
first author, source title, publication year, conference title.
4. Analyze Results by different options or Create Citation Report to
see aggregate citation statistics for a set of search results.

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Results list

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 Full record (1)
Access to full text depends
on the institution’s
subscription!
Look Up Full Text takes
you to Google Scholar
database. Click Times Cited to find out who cited this
paper in Web of Science Core Collection
database.
Click Cited References to move to this paper’s
bibliography.
Click view related records to view records that
share cited references with this paper. (The
more cited references two articles share, the All Times Cited shows who
close the subject relationship.) cited this paper in all citation
indexes of Web of Science
database (Access to records is
limited to the institution’s
entitlements subscription).

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Full record (2)

Address of the authors:

name, city, country of
the institutions, etc.

Author Identifiers, if at least one

of the authors has ResearcherID
and/or ORCID.

Plus information about the

journal and its publication.

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Search for author

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Results list – documents of the author

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Citation report of the author

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H-index

The h-index is a bibliometric indicator based on the set of a researcher’s most

cited papers and the number of citations (quotations). It is indicated by an orange
horizontal line at Citation Report in Web of Science. The number of items above
this line, which is h, have at least h citations. For this example, the h-index of 28
means that there are 28 published papers that have 28 citation or more.

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Search options
 Basic Search
 Cited Reference Search:
search for the articles that have cited a
previously published work
 Advanced Search

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Cited reference search – settings

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Cited reference search – first step

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Cited reference search – second step (a)

Citations retrieving:
-View Record
- Mark the checkbox(es), Finish Search

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Full record – number of the citing documents

Number of the
quotations in
Web of Science
Core Collection
database

Number of the
quotations in all
citation indexes of
Web of Science
database (what we
can see depends on
the subscription)

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Let see the number of the citations!

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Cited reference search – second step (b)

Look for variants. Papers are

sometimes cited incorrectly.

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Search options
 Basic Search
 Cited Reference Search
 Advanced Search:
create complex queries using two-character field
tags and Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT,
SAME, NEAR)

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Advanced search – settings

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Advanced search

Search box

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Advanced search
– number of the records in the Search history

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Results list – sort by Times Cited -- highest to lowest

The most cited

publication of the
results list

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 Combine the results

Advanced Search / Search History

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New results list after combining

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Exercises
1. Search publications about cancer and environment (as topic) from Hungary
(as address) in Web of Science Core Collection database. It is not specified how
far apart cancer and environment terms should be.
a) How many proceedings papers did you find?
b) How many authors wrote the most cited publication?
2. Search the most cited article (as doc. type) about prevention and dementia (as
topic), not from USA (as address) in Web of Science Core Collection database.
The prevention and dementia terms must be within a maximum of 3 words from
one another.
a) How many institutions collaborated at this article?
b) How many records can be found in the bibliography of this article?
3. Search publications about facebook and attention (as topic) from Germany
(as address) in Web of Science Core Collection database. It is not specified how
far apart facebook and attention terms should be.
a) In which journal was the most cited publication published?
b) How many times were all publications of your search cited?
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What is Scopus?
 One of the largest abstract and citation database of research literature
from Elsevier Publisher
 Multidisciplinary bibliographic database
 Updated daily
 Approximately 70% of titles are not from North America
 About 21% of the indexed journals are bilinguals and/or not English
 ~100% Medline coverage
 Timespan:
o 70% of all Scopus records, back to 1823, have an abstract

o References go back to 1970

(Scopus is in progress of updating pre-1996 cited references going back to
1970.)

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Value-added services
(required registration)
 Set up alerts
 Search alerts send new results
from a previous search directly
to your mailbox.
 Document citation alerts notify
you when an article you specify
is cited by another article.
 Personalize
 You can edit your searches,
save them for a future session
or set up an alert to receive
new results by email.
 Access to another Elsevier
product
 If you have subscriptions to
more than one Elsevier
product, you only need to log
in to one product. For example,
if you log in to Scopus and
have a subscription to
ScienceDirect, you will not
need to log in again when you
use ScienceDirect.
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Access http://lib.semmelweis.hu

 On the
website of
Central
Library of
Semmelweis
University:
Sources -
Databases:
Scopus link

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Scopus database

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Search options
 Document Search:
search by article title, abstract, keyword, author,
affiliation, language, ISSN, DOI, references, etc.
 Author Search
 Affiliation Search
 Advanced Search

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Document search – detailed search fields
 Article Title, Abstract, Keywords: a combined field that searches abstracts, keywords, and article titles
 Authors: search for an author name of a publication (Note: Use a comma to separate last name and first name.)
 First Author: search for the first author listed for a document.
 Source Title: search for the title of a journal, book, conference proceeding, or report in which the document was published.
 Article Title: search for the title of a publication
 Abstract: search in the summary of a document
 Keywords: a combined field that searches the author keywords, indexterms, tradename, and chemname fields
 Affilitiation: search for the full or partial name of an institution and/or location from an author's address
 Language: search for the language in which the original document was written
 ISSN: search for International Standard Serial Number: a unique identification number assigned to all serial publications
 CODEN: search for a unique code that identifies serial and nonserial publications
 DOI: search for digital object identifier (DOI®), which identifies the digital content on the web
 References: search in reference lists of documents
 Conference: search for conference name or sponsor or location
 Article Title, Abstract, Keywords, Authors: a combined field that searches abstracts, article titles, keywords, and author names
 Chemical Name: search for chemical names
 CAS Number: search for Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) registry number
o Limit to: Date Range: search for publication year(s)
o Document Type: search for a document type

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Document search – document types

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Search tips
Truncation symbols / wildcard characters
? Only one character Eg.: AFFIL(nure?berg) = Nuremberg, Nurenberg
* Any number of characters Eg.: toxi* = toxin, toxic, toxicity, toxicology, etc.

Operators
AND Searches for publications containing both words. Eg.: food AND poison

OR Searches for publications containing either or both words. Eg.: weather OR climate

AND NOT Searches for publications that do not contain the following word Eg.: tumor AND NOT malignant
(after AND NOT).
„…” To search as a phrase, use quote marks, it will also search for both Eg.: „heart-attack” = heart-attack, heart
singular and plurals. attack, heart attacks
{…} With curly brackets you can search for the exact phrase. Eg.: {heart-attack} = heart-attack

PRE/n Restricts to n words between the two words. The word order is as Eg.: newborn PRE/2 screening => where
set. newborn term precedes with a maximum of
2 words screening term
W/n Restricts to n words between the two words. The word order is not Eg.: pain W/5 morphine => where pain
set. term must be within a maximum of 5
words from morphine term
Source: SciVerse Scopus. Quick Reference Guide. ©2011, Elsevier B.V.
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Search for keywords 1.
(at Document search platform)

Use operators:
OR, (W/n,
PRE/n), AND,
AND NOT

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Results list

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 A bibliographic item*

* The bibliographic item is full – with the volume, issue and page numbers – when we hover over the record.

Extra information:
-number of the last column (Cited by): shows how
many papers cited this publication
-View at publisher: if you see this button, you can
read the full text of the document at the publisher’s
site depends on our institution’s subscription
-Show abstract: you can read the brief summary
(abstract) of the paper
-Related documents: you can view a list of related
documents based on shared references

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Results list – refine, process
3. Some further options: 4.
2. View secondary documents: Results from reference lists.
1. The default sort is latest
Patents: Results from 5 patent offices.
Date. You can change
the sort order of your
results by date (newest
or oldest), cited by,
relevance, first author
(A-Z or Z-A), or source
title (A-Z).

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Full record (1)

If you click the icon, you can

email the author(s).
If you click the icon, you can
see the correspondence
information (author, address) for
this document.
Cited by
shows who
cited this paper.

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Full record (2)

References shows this paper’s

bibliography.

Information about the

correspondence author.

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Search for keywords 2.
(at Document search platform)

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Results list – edit, save, alerts; analyze results

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Analyze results – by different options

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Results list – View citation overview

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Citation overview

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Search for author
(at Document Search platform)

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Results list – documents of the author

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Search options
 Document Search
 Author Search:
locate a particular author easily
 Affiliation Search
 Advanced Search

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Author search – first step

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Author search – second step

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Author – „information sheet”(search for name variants)

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Author – „information sheet”
(with the grouped author name variants)

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Author – publications and citations data

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Author - h-index
Option to look the h-index
of the given author.

The h-index of 18 means that

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Search options
 Document Search
 Author Search
 Affiliation Search:
search for institutes
 Advanced Search

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Affiliation search – first step

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Affiliation search – second step

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Affiliation – „information sheet”

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Search options
 Document Search
 Author Search
 Affiliation Search
 Advanced Search:
create complex queries using operators (e.g. AND, OR,
AND NOT) and codes

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Advanced search

Search box

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Results list – sort by: Cited by (times cited)

The most cited

publication of the
results list

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Search history: Combine the results

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New results list after combining

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Exercises
1. Search a publication with doi: 10.1021/ac201251s in Scopus database.
a) Who is the correspondence author of the publication?
b) Which institution(s) and department belong(s) to the last author at this
publication?
2. Search publications about facebook and "medical student" (as article
title, abstract, keywords) in Scopus database. It is not restricted how many
words should be between facebook and "medical student" terms.
a) In what languages were the publications of your search written?
b) What is the DOI number of the most cited publication of your search?
3. Search publications about antioxidant and probiotics (as keywords)
which not include inflammation (as keywords) in Scopus database. The
antioxidant term must be precede with a maximum of 5 words probiotics
term.
a) Which country/countries published the most documents of your search?
b) What is the (supposed) nationality of author of the oldest publication?

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Thank you for your attention!