WEB OF SCIENCE

Subhasree A. Nag, PhD.

Solution Consultant, Scientific and Scholarly Research
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Take Your Research To The Next Level

 AGENDA

Research and Publishing in Academia-Evolution of Web of

01 Science
02 Web of Science Platform Resources
03 Web of Science Core Collection: metadata construct and features
04 Discovery: the importance of citation indexing and metadata
05 Web of Science and EndNote Demo
Research and Publishing in Academia
 SCIENTIFIC AND ACADEMIC RESEARCH

Model of Hypothesis Driven Research

• Is there a story to tell?
Literature • What is the rationale for the project?
Review • What is the historical context of the work?
• Do I have a clear hypothesis?
• Do the experiments test that hypothesis?
• Is the experimental design defendable?
• Can I justify what I did?
• Do I use appropriate controls?
• How do my findings relate to the existing
knowledge?
Systematic literature review is required to:
•Assess the “state-of-art” in your discipline, subject area and topic
•Ensure information is obtained from reliable and reputed source i.e. a peer reviewed journal
•Based on “white spaces” in the domain, come up with an original research idea (hypothesis)- Gauge its
relevance to field. Are we just re-inventing the wheel?
•Ensure experiments chosen are feasible (negative data from literature)
•Ensure selected references are readily accessible, storeable and traceable in time for it to be properly
read, reviewed and used
 THE PUBLISHING LANDSCAPE

Research leads the quest for knowledge, the need to

contemplate, explore, heal and create, and sparks the potential
for financial reward for innovative ideas.
• Advancement of Knowledge
• Recognition
• Prestige
• Primary vehicle for publication of research is the
scholarly, or scientific, or academic journal.
• Published by commercial publishers, associations and
societies, universities, and not-for-profit organizations.
• Published papers are peer-reviewed and meet the
editorial objectives of the journal.
• Scientists and scholars rely primarily on journal
literature to remain up-to-date in their fields of
interest.
CITATIONS – THE CORNER STONE OF LITERATURE REVIEW

• Within a published article authors are required to

create a list of References used to support their
own research.

• To include a reference to a book, journal article,

etc. in one’s list of references is to “cite” that
reference.

• A cite, or “citation” is an acknowledgment of

intellectual debt to a particular piece of research.

• Thus, to be “cited” is desirable as it is evidence

that one’s research was valuable to another
researcher. A highly cited article, receiving many
cites from other articles, is seen as influential

• Citations in science serve as linkages between

similar research items which leads to matching or
related scientific literature, such as journal articles,
conference proceedings, abstracts, etc.

•Web of Science has 115 million records and 1+ Billion citation links.
 UNCOVERING THE RIGHT RESEARCH

• Getting a “lay-of-the land” –Research landscape- what has gone on

before?
• My idea-Is it there? Was it done before?
• If you are re-inventing the wheel- Funding difficulties!!!
• Changing terminology makes keyword searching difficult and accurate
• Keyword searching –slow moving process!
• Citation Indexing- The answer?
• Citation based searching captures naturally occurring relationships
between journal articles creating an entire searcheable “WEB OF
SCIENCE”
• Takes out the guesswork out of searching!
UNCOVERING THE RIGHT RESEARCH

DBT Grant Proposal Example

 Citation Index - The Value Add

The language of research is constantly changing, as research progress concepts and

terminology evolve.
• Text based searching may miss critical information
• Network linkages through citations facilitate the discovery of information across the boundaries
of terminology

LAV
(Europe)

HTLV-III HIV + many variants, “SIV” ???

(USA)

1983 1987 Present Future

This particular article is highly cited

and relevant, but does not contain
the term “HIV”
Therefore, this record cannot be
found by searching for the text
“HIV” but is easily found by using
citations
 EVOLUTION OF CITATION INDEXING

Original Science Citation Index (SCI)

is made commercially available to the
research community.

1955 1964 2014

 MILLIONS OF POWERFUL CITATION
ANALYTICS ENDNOTE
RECORDS INDEX

Dean and Publication

Scientists and
Scientists and Director- Authors
Researchers
Researchers Management Scientists and
(Networking)
R&D Researchers
Policy Makers
WEB OF SCIENCE PLATFORM RESOURCES
 WEB OF SCIENCE CORE COLLECTION

SOCIAL SCIENCE CITATION ARTS & HUMANITIES EMERGING SOURCES

SCIENCE CITATION INDEX INDEX CITATION INDEX CITATION INDEX
EXPANDED 1900-present 1975-present 2015-present
1900-present

CONF. PROC. CITATION CURRENT CHEMICAL INDEX CHEMICUS

INDEX BOOK CITATION INDEX
REACTIONS
1990-present 2005-present
1985-present 1993-present

DERWENT INNOVATIONS
DATA CITATION INDEX BIOSIS CITATION INDEX ZOOLOGICAL RECORD INDEX
1900-present 1926-present 1864-present 1963-present

MEDLINE REGIONAL CITATION INDEXES HOSTED CONTENT

1950-present (Chinese SCD, CABI, Inspec,
SciELO CITATION INDEX
FSTA)
KCI KOREAN JOURNAL DATABASE
as far back as 1898
RUSSIAN CITATION INDEX

= Core Collection
= With platform bundle
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 MULTISOURCE AND MULTIDISCIPLINARY- EXTENT OF
COVERAGE
Journals Conference Scholarly Research Patents
& Serials Proceedings Books Datasets
Web of Science
1900
BIOSIS Citation Index 1926
Data Citation Index 1900
Derwent 1963
Innovations Index
Zoological Record 1864
Inspec 1898
CABI 1910
Food Science and technology
abstracts 1969
Current contents connect 1998
MEDLINE 1950
Chinese Science citation
database 1989
SciELO Citation Index 1997
 CORE
COLLECTION

• High-quality, peer-reviewed content with independent, publisher- neutral, unbiased

selection processes
• Cover-to-cover indexing, uniform document classification
• Used by major research institutions, governments and international rankings
• The largest and most consistent citation database;1 billion cited references, as far back as
1898, all searchable!
• Multidisciplinary database covering hard sciences (physics, chemistry, and biology), social
sciences, arts, and humanities
• High quality metadata. Superior collection development: meticulous data curation
• 7 language interfaces and also multiple character sets

Journal
Editorial International Citation
Publishing
Content Diversity Analysis
Standards
Topic searches apply against Title
Abstract
Web of Science Core
fields from all records and Regional CI’s
Author Keywords
KeyWords Plus® in Core
(No special expertise needed to benefit from Title, Foreign Title
Abstract
enhanced indexing) Major Concepts, Concept Code(s)
BIOSIS databases Taxonomic Data, Disease Data,
Chemical Data, …
Miscellaneous Descriptors
Title, Book Title
Abstract
Broad Terms
Zoological Record Descriptors Data
Super Taxa, Systematics, Taxa
Notes
Title
Abstract
Derwent Innovations Index Equivalent abstracts
115 million Records Title terms
Title
Abstract
Inspec Controlled Indexing, Uncontrolled
Indexing, Original Indexing
Classification Code(s)
English Title, Foreign Title
Abstract
Descriptors, Broad Descriptors,
CABI Organism Descriptors
Geographic Location
Identifiers
CABICODE Names
Title, Foreign Title
Abstract
Food Science and Keywords
Descriptors
Technology Abstracts
Headings
Commercial Names
Title, Vernacular Title
Clarivate Analytics has manually mapped the controlled vocabulary Abstract, Other Abstract
MeSH Terms
from each of the different classification systems (e.g. MeSH) on to MEDLINE Keyword List
a common indexing backbone which is broadly based on the Web Chemical, Gene Symbol, Personal
of Science / JCR journal classifications. 17
Name Subject, Space Flight Mission
Importance of Citation Indexing and Discovery
 Smart Search Discovery Reveals
New Citation Connections
Times Cited
2847

Related
Records 1997
Author Cited
References -29

From citations analysis users can navigate

• Backward in time via Cited References
• Forward in time via Times Cited
• Via Related Records to find relevant papers

Time 19
Look at earlier records (not covered in
theSCI-Expanded1997-Present) using
the RELATED RECORDS feature that
View a list of records that cite at least
one document cited by the parent
record identified at the top of the
page. Related Records are ranked
according to the number of references
they share with the parent record.
Web of Science-Metadata Construct and Search Features
 ALL DATABASES- SINGLE POINT OF ENTRY

BIOSIS Citation Index

Web of Science Derwent Innovations Index Inspec
Biological Abstracts
Title. Abstract, Equivalent abstracts, Title, Abstract, Controlled
Title, Abstract International patent classification, Indexing, Uncontrolled Indexing,
Title, Abstract, Author Major Concepts, Concept Code(s) Derwent Class codes, Derwent Original Indexing
Keywords, KeyWords Plus® Taxonomic Data, Disease Data, Manual codes Classification Code(s)
Chemical Data, …

Zoological Records MEDLINE CABI Data Citation Index

Title, Abstract, Descriptors, Broad
Title, Abstract, Broad Terms Title, Abstract, MeSH Terms
Descriptors, Organism Descriptors,
Descriptors Data, Keyword List, Chemical, Gene Titles, Abstracts, Repository
Geographic Location, CABICODE
Super Taxa, Taxa Notes Symbol, Subject,… Name, Data Study, Data Set
Names
Food Science and Chinese Science Citation
Technology abstracts Current Contents Connect SciELO Citation Index
Database
Title, Abstract, FSTA Thesaurus, Title, Abstract, Author Keywords
MeSH Thesaurus KeyWords Plus® Title, Abstract, Author Keywords
Title, Abstract, Author Keywords
SEARCH FEATURES IN WEB OF SCIENCE

There are 5 types generally:

•Search: use this for normal
keyword search such as Topic,
title, address, conference,
funding agency etc
•Cited Reference Search: Find
articles that cite a person's work
•Structure Search: Search for
chemicals using structure
drawing
•Advance Search: Suitable for
more complex search queries
•Author Finder: Systematic
ways to retrieve sets of articles
from one author
WEB OF SCIENCE SEARCH TIPS
WEB OF SCIENCE SEARCH TIPS
WEB OF SCIENCE-ADVANCED SEARCH

Allows searching in fields not present in BASIC SEARCH

Execute precise complex queries
Edit a search previously run
 All authors
All affiliations
All funding sources

Without consistent metadata, no

reliable analysis can be
conducted
MAPPING-MEDLINE

Neurosciences & Neurology

Demography

Mining & Mineral Processing

Public, Environmental &

Occupational Health

Biophysics
SEARCH STRATEGY REFINING USING RESEARCH AREA

INSPEC Classification code: E3020 Mining, oil drilling

and natural gas industries

Derwent Manual Code: A12-W10 mining, oil wells

Current Contents Connect Discipline: Petroleum &

Mining Engineering
THE WEB OF SCIENCE, A TRULY MULTIDISCIPLINARY
UNIVERSE

If the user is only interested in the legal

implications of Stem Cell research, the multi
databases search results can be refined
 THE WEB OF SCIENCE, A TRULY MULTIDISCIPLINARY
UNIVERSE

The variety of document

types in the different
resources have been
unified to one common
list
COMPLEMENTING EACH OTHER: WEB OF SCIENCE
DATABASES

If one uses Medline to find all publications from Lyon University

in Lancet,
3 publications are found
In Medline

If one uses The All Databases search to find all publications from
Lyon University in Lancet and refine by Medline results, 38
publications are found
In Medline

That is 35 more publications than when directly

searching Medline,

Why?
COMPLEMENTING EACH OTHER: WEB OF SCIENCE
DATABASES

Medline Record, only one

address

Web of Science Record: All

addresses

The University of Lyon papers in Lancet are almost

invisible in Medline or any other database that
provides limited affiliation information.

The Web of Science records contain complete

bibliographic information and this data quality
enhances the searches one can run on other web
of science databases, using the
All Databases Search
WEB OF SCIENCE- POWERFUL ANALYTICS

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This article has been accessed full text by clicking links

to the full-length article at the publisher’s website or has
been saved in a bibliographic management tool
RECEIVE ALERTS FROM THE WEB OF SCIENCE

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 AUTHOR STANDARDIZATION

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Unifies different forms of author names (Author
Name Standardization) ensuring reliable search
results
 ANALYZE FUNDERS AND GATHER
COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE

Who is funding research in this area?

• Governments
• Pharma companies
• Research councils and ministries
• Not-for-profits
 Web of Science Core Collection:
Analyze Results by Author, Institution, Country

What are the institutions and

who are the authors
contributing to this topic?

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WEB OF SCIENCE “DENGUE” OR “DENGUE VIRUS”- INDIA
STATISTICS

!!!! !!!!
SEARCH WEB OF SCIENCE FOR “DENGUE” OR “DENGUE VIRUS”
ResearcherID is a freely available website where
researchers can register themselves and list
their publications. A useful tool to help
researchers increase their global visibility and
network with other researchers
 IMPACT FACTOR vs RANK IN CATEGORY
•The impact factor is just an absolute number calculated using a simple mathematical formula based on
the ratio of the number of citations of the journal’s articles on the number of total citable articles published
by that journal.
•One particular limitation is that certain fields are very specialized and may not receive that many citations.
Thus, an absolute number may not be the best metric to gauge the importance of that journal in a
particular field.
•On the other hand, JCR rankings in a category tell researchers the impact of the journal in that research
category.
•Each journal can have different ranks in different categories. Based on the target audience and focus
of the paper, researchers can decide in which journal to publish.

IF= 3.249 (2016)

IF= 3.858 (2016)

IF= 5.168 (2016)

IF= 2.992 (2016)

 ENDNOTE

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 ENDNOTE

Permanently archive results.

Organize results around your
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Share folders with colleagues, for

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EndNote Web
 Archiving Search Results
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 Cite While You Write™

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EndNote Web for items you wish to cite

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 ENDNOTE

EndNote Web is included as part of the

Web of Science platform, fully integrated
with the Web of Science and
ResearcherID
 ENDNOTE

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 KEEP PACE WITH RESEARCH EVOLUTION

— FOLLOW THE CITATION CONNECTION

UNCOVER BRILLIANT RESULTS