The ISI Web of Knowledge

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Dr Guillaume Rivalle
Product Specialist
Guillaume.Rivalle@thomsonreuters.com
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 Web of Science
• Over a century of coverage, dating back to 1900
• Full indexing of over 11,000 professionally selected
journals
• Multidisciplinary: Science, Social Sciences, Arts &
Humanities
• On average, 30,000 publications added every week
• Powerful bibliographic and cited reference search
capabilities, together with the benefits of cited
reference linking and navigation.
Full Record
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Using citation links
2006

2000 Times 2003

Cited

2007
Cited
References
2000

1974 1998

1993
Numbers

Records added References added

Journals
weekly weekly
Science Citation
Index Expanded 7181 24 100 45 5900

Social Sciences
Citation Index 2169 3033 71 400

Arts & Humanities

Citation Index 1228 1925 16 500
Easily locate Journals/Authors/Group authors
of interest within our collection
By finding highly cited articles it is possible
to quickly identify important and influent
publications in a specific discipline
Refine by a variety of fields
Launch a Citation map from a
Web of Science Full Record

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First generation citations

Second generation citations

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Citation Report allows you to
analyze a group of up to
10,000 Web of Science
publications
 Citation Report – an
immediate snapshot of
published material each year,
and the volume of references
(citations) to this material.

Quickly gauge the trends in published output

and citation of particular areas of research.
 Search histories saves are widely used
to receive alerts on the latest discoveries
by email or RSS feeds.
Create as many histories as you want, and receive by
email or RSS feeds as many alerts as you want.
EndNote Web – a prominent role within the
ISI Web of Knowledge platform.
Archive, Organize, and Share results.
Format Bibliographies and Write papers.
 Easily save results from
ISI Web of Knowledge to EndNote –
utilize both the desktop and web version
to provide for the greatest flexibility.
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Insert references in your article directly from
your online library and in multiple formats
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Access JCR from the Web of Knowledge
Subject Categories
Subject Categories
Sort Journals in the Category
Full Record Page
Impact Factor

• TR calculates the a journal’s impact factor by:

dividing the number of citations made in 2008 to items published in
the previous two years (2006 & 2007) by the total number of articles
& reviews published in the previous two years

2008 cites to items published in 2007 and 2226

2006 = 4.122
# of articles published in 2007 and 2006 540
Journal Rank in categories
Journal Rank in categories
Five-Year Impact Factor

Calculated similarly to the traditional Impact Factor: the

number of citations in 2008 to articles published in previous
five years (2003-2007) divided by the total number of articles
published in the previous five years (2003-2007).
The Eigenfactor score
The Eigenfactor score
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