WEB OF SCIENCE

For Academic and Research Excellence

Why use Web of Science: Use Cases

Conducting Scientific Literature Review

Discovering the most impactful research and emerging trends

Performing research performance evaluations

Uncovering potential collaborators

Identifying quality journals

Powering Rankings

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 50th Anniversary of Citation Indexing

Original Science Citation Index (SCI)

1964 is made commercially available to the
research community.

Dr. Eugene Garfield

2014
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All Databases search:
Record unification

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All Databases search: Web of Science Core
Title
Abstract
Author Keywords
and Regional CI’s
Record unification KeyWords Plus® in Core

Title, Foreign Title

Abstract
Topic searches apply against Major Concepts, Concept Code(s)
BIOSIS databases Taxonomic Data, Disease Data,
fields from all records Chemical Data, …
Miscellaneous Descriptors
(No special expertise needed to benefit from
Title, Book Title
enhanced indexing) Abstract
Broad Terms
Zoological Record Descriptors Data
Super Taxa, Systematics, Taxa
Notes
Title
Abstract
Derwent Innovations Index Equivalent abstracts
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
Abstract, Other Abstract
MeSH Terms
MEDLINE Keyword List
Chemical, Gene Symbol, Personal
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Name Subject, Space Flight Mission
The Web of Science platform: Record counts by source
SCIENCE CITATION SOCIAL SCIENCE ARTS & HUMANITIES EMERGING SOURCES
INDEX EXPANDED CITATION INDEX CITATION INDEX CITATION INDEX
1900-present 1900-present 1975-present 2015-present
46 million 8.2 million 4.5 million 64,000+

CONF. PROC. BOOK CITATION CURRENT CHEMICAL INDEX CHEMICUS

CITATION INDEX INDEX REACTIONS
1990-present 2005-present 1985-present 1993-present
8.5 million 1 million 235,500 400,000

DATA CITATION BIOSIS CITATION ZOOLOGICAL DERWENT

INDEX INDEX RECORD INNOVATIONS INDEX
1900-present 1926-present 1864-present 1963-present
5.6 million+ 24.9 million 4.2 million 30 million

MEDLINE REGIONAL CITATION INDEXES HOSTED CONTENT

1950-present
25.2 million+
KCI KOREAN JOURNAL DATABASE
= Core Collection
= With platform bundle
Revised Feb 2016
(Chinese SCD, CABI,
SciELO CITATION INDEX
Inspec, FSTA)
2002-present 477,000
as far back as 1898
31 million additional
1980-present 1 million
RUSSIAN CITATION INDEX
2002-present 300,000+ 8
Conference Proceedings Citation Index
• Science and Social Sciences/Humanities editions
– Updated weekly
– Coverage from 1990
Cited references from 1999
– Over 8 million records:
• 1,80,000 total conferences
• 12,000 conferences annually
• Comprehensive, multidisciplinary and international
coverage from conferences proceedings published in
books, journals, reports, series, and preprints
• Details of each conference are indexed and searchable
Included: Conference title, Sponsor, Location, Description,
Date

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Milestones added to Web of Science:
Increase in Open Access content with Impactstory
Web of Science Core Collection
Journal Evaluation Process
 Our Editorial Team
• Around 150 years of
experience in their
• Uniformity of
roles
judgment
• Continuous Full Time • 12 master’s degrees
checking during Editors
Bi-weekly
• Full time positions
different Clarivate
meetings
process steps Analytics’
for monitoring employees
current content EDITORIAL
TEAM
No one of
the editors 12 main
edit a languages
journal covered
No one of with
the editors fluency
publish

No national boards.
No conflicts of interest Regional publications covered with a
slightly different strategy.
See REGIONAL INDEXES
Why use Web of Science

The Use Cases

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Why use Web of Science: Use Cases

Literature Review

• Search & discovery using various searching and refining

techniques
• Review the citations received and references used
• View the ‘Related Records’ to find similar papers having common
references

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Why use Web of Science: Use Cases

Knowing about latest/emerging trends in research

• Find out the most 'Highly Cited' papers in a research domain

• Get to know the 'Hot Papers’ (recent papers) in your research
domain

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Why use Web of Science: Use Cases

Perform research evaluations

• Capability to analyze a search result and perform various

evaluations to identify:
o Top organizations
o Top funding agencies
o Top journals
o Top authors (Researcher ID, ORCID) etc.
• From one analysis to another, deep dive into any result to get more
details

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Why use Web of Science: Use Cases

Uncover potential collaborators/co-authors

• Useful especially for niche/unique research areas, using ‘related

records’
• Helps you navigate backward and forward in time to get to relevant
papers using citations and references
• Get the contact details of authors in desired research domain
• Have a look at the 'Citation Report' to validate your choice of co-
author and draw conclusions

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Why use Web of Science: Use Cases

Identifying quality journals in your research domain

• Impact factor, Rank and Quartile (Q1, Q2, Q3 and Q4) in a

category helps you determine the quality of a journal
• The selection criteria at the time of indexing journals ensures that
no predatory journals get indexed

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Why use Web of Science: Use Cases

Export records from Web of Science to other formats

• Search results from ‘Web of Science’ can be exported to other file

formats like excel, html etc. for further analysis
• Ability to export results to InCites helps in analyzing the results
creating charts and graphs
• Search results can also be exported to EndNote for managing
citations and references

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Why use Web of Science: Use Cases

Track an organization's research output

• An organization can be represented by many name variations

making it difficult to get the research output
• Use of 'Organization-Enhanced' feature to effectively deal with
name variations

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 Why use Web of Science: Use Cases
• Search & discovery: Ideal for literature review
• Superior research analytics: Decision making
• Additional tools:
o EndNote: Reference management tool
o Cited reference searching: To explore hidden connections
o Publons: Peer review made easy and convenient
o Kopernio: Easy access to full-text, the legal way

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 Vishav Sharma, Senior Solutions Consultant
vishav.sharma@clarivate.com | clarivate.com