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Web of Science Citation Index

Power Searching Information

   Ready to Power Search Web of Science?

 

 

Here are the most important things to remember:

  1.  Web of Science has the ability to discover a forward citation on the Citation Trail
  2. Constructed to excel at forward and backward citation searching, rather than subject searching
  3. In this DB with work  "Science" = "Knowledge". The index is NOT limited to life, physical, or mathematical science. 
 How to Power Search

citationmapwebofscience

  Example of the citation mapping feature
  in Web of Science Database. 


​ Proximity [Phrase Searching] and Truncation

​ Fielded Searches/Combining Sets : Examples

​ Setting Alerts