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THE DEFINITIVE RESOURCE FOR GLOBAL RESEARCH

WEB OF SCIENCE

ACCESS POWERFUL CITED REFERENCE SEARCHING AND MULTIDISCIPLINARY CONTENT WHAT IT DELIVERS

WHAT YOU CAN DO

• Coverage of over 12,000 journals • More than 148,000 proceedings from the most significant conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions worldwide • Coverage as far back as 1900 • Coverage of over 30,000 editorially selected books • Cover-to-cover indexing • Cited reference and chemical structure searches • Author identification tools • Analysis capabilities and visualization tools • Direct links to full text and library holdings information

• Access the highest quality, curated, multidisciplinary content • Pinpoint subject-specific and regional research • Search grant activity and funding acknowledgements • Discover the most relevant research to inform your work • Find high-impact articles and proceedings • Discover research ideas as they are first presented, before they are included in journals • Detect emerging trends that help you pursue successful research and grant acquisition • See where top researchers are publishing and presenting findings • Identify potential collaborators with significant citation records

DISCOVER THE BEST RESULTS FROM THE WORLD’S PREMIER RESEARCH LITERATURE Web of ScienceSM provides access to the world’s leading citation databases. Authoritative, multidisciplinary coverage includes current and retrospective journal and proceedings data in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities, with backfiles to 1900. Web of Science is available via Web of Knowledge, the comprehensive research platform of choice for over 5,600 institutions in more than 100 countries.

POWERFUL SEARCHING AND ANALYSIS CAPABILITIES CITED REFERENCE SEARCHING

Citations (or footnote) allow you to navigate forward and backward though time, across journal articles and conference proceedings. With cited reference searching, you can search a true citation index across all disciplines and time spans to uncover information relevant to your topic.. • • • •

Discover who’s citing your research and the impact your work is having Uncover the pivotal research of an important theory or concept Measure the influence of colleagues’ or competitors’ work – or your own Follow the path and direction of today’s hottest ideas

Related Records® enhances the power of cited reference searching by searching across disciplines for all the articles that have cited references in common.

One search delivers relevant, multidisciplinary results from journals and proceedings.

WEB OF SCIENCE

ANALYZE TOOL

»» Conference Proceedings Citation Index™ — 1990 to present Fully indexes over 148,000 conference titles in the Sciences and Social Sciences with 12,000 conferences added annually »» Science Citation Index Expanded™ — 1900 to present Fully indexes over 8,500 major journals across 150 disciplines »» Social Sciences Citation Index™ — 1900 to present Fully indexes over 3,000 social sciences journals, covering the most significant social sciences discoveries from all of the 20th century. »» Arts & Humanities Citation Index® — to 1975 to present Fully indexes over 1,700 arts and humanities journals, as well as selected items from over 250 scientific and social sciences journals »» Index Chemicus® – 1993 to present Contains over 2.6 million compounds

Find hidden trends and patterns, gain insight into emerging fields of research, identify leading researchers, institutions, and journals, and trace the history of a particular field of study. You can analyze results by author, publication year, journal subject category, institution, language or source title, and view a numerical, percentage and graphical representation of the analysis. CITATION REPORT

Citation Reports can provide useful productivity and performance metrics for a set of results by capturing citation activity and identifying citation trends graphically. You can instantly create formatted reports for any general search of up to 10,000 records, and view vital citation information for an individual or an institution, such as sum of Times Cited, average citations per item and year, number of results found, and the h-index. CITATION MAPS

Visualize the connections between articles and their citations. Go forward and backward in time to track citing and cited references; color code, re-configure and organize your citation maps to discover trends in citation activity. Link directly to the full record of any article shown. RESEARCHERID INTEGRATION

Update your ResearcherID Profile effortlessly by adding your published works to your ‘My publications list’ from within Web of Science. Link directly from a Web of Science record to the author’s personalized CV, with citation metrics, in the ResearcherID environment.

»» Current Chemical Reactions® – 1986 to present; plus INPI archives from 1840 to 1985 Contains over one million reactions

AUTHOR IDENTIFICATION TOOLS

»» Book Citation Index — 2005 to present Indexes over 30,000 editorially selected books with 10,000 new books added each year

• Search by author’s ResearcherID to quickly find an author verified list of publications. • Distinct Author Identification System provides a powerful disambiguation algorithm that addresses the problem of similar author names throughout over a century of scholarly research. • Full Author Names enables you to view full names as they appear on original articles. • Author Finder helps you quickly distinguish between authors with the same name, and group an author’s output when the name is recorded in several different formats.

A suite of authorship tools helps you quickly locate articles likely written by the same author, in a simple, single search:

ALERTING AND RSS FEEDS

Keep up-to-date with the information that matters to you. By setting up Search and Citation Alerts via email or RSS feeds, you can to stay up to date on recently published research and see who is citing your work. ENDNOTE

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