Web of Science and Scopus

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Web of Science and Scopus

• Multidisciplinary bibliographic and citation
  searching databases

Anna BerhidiSemmelweis University Central
Libraryaberhidi_at_lib.sote.hu November 2009

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What is the Web of Science?

• The part of ISI Web of Knowledge from Thomson
  Reuters
• Multidisciplinary bibliographic database
• Includes full bibliographic information and
  citation searching
• Updated weekly
• Contains 3 indexes
• Science Citation Index Expanded
• Social Sciences Citation Index
• Arts Humanities Citation Index
• Timespan (in Hungary) 1975 to present

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Access 1.

• http//eisz.om.hu Required registration!
• (This link is on the website of Semmelweis
  University Central Library DatabasesEISZ)

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Login
Password
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Access 2.

• On the website of Semmelweis University Central
  LibraryDatabases Web of Science

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Search options

• Search
• Cited Reference Search
• Advanced Search

• NOTECITATION has two meanings in library usage
• It means a bibliographic item of a work, e.g.
  journal article, which includes the title of the
  publication, the authors names, data of sources
  (source title, volume, issue, pages, publication
  year).
• It means a quotation, which an author has
  received in a paper published by other researcher.

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Click Times Cited to find out who cited this
paper. Click References to move to this papers
bibliography.
Full Record
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Refine your results
Sort your results
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The h-index is indicated by a green horizontal
line. The number of items above this line, which
is h, have at least h citations. For this
example, the h-index of 24 means that there are
24 published papers that have 24 citations or
more.
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Citations retrieving -View Record -Mark the
checkbox, Finish Search
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Number of the quotations
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Look for variants. Papers are sometimes cited
incorrectly.
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Search by logical operators.
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Exercise

• Search the next keywords in the Web of Science
  allergy AND stress
• How many citations does the most cited
  publication have?
• What kind of document type is the most cited
  publication?

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What is the Scopus?

• One of the largest abstract and citation database
  of research literature from Elsevier Publisher
• Multidisciplinary bibliographic database
• Updated daily
• More than 60 of titles are from countries other
  than the USA
• Timespan
• 80 of all Scopus records, back to 1823, have an
  abstract
• References go back to 1996

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Access

• On the website of Semmelweis University Central
  LibraryDatabasesScopus

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Search options

• Basic Search
• Author Search
• Affiliation Search
• Advanced Search

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Cited by shows, who cited this paper.
Full Record
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References show this papers bibliography.
Full Record(cont.)
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Some options More Results from Reference
lists. Web Results from Scirus, the scientific
web. Patents Results from 5 patent offices.
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Option to look the h-index of the given author.
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Search by logical operators.
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Exercise

• Which publication of Tulassay, Zsolt is the most
  cited in the Scopus database?
• Search the number of the citations and the
  journal name of this publication.
• In which institute did work Zsolt Tulassay in
  this publication?

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Web of Science and Scopus
value-added services (required registration)

• Web of Science
• Create a private user profile
• Save searches and create search alerts (eg. RSS
  feeds)
• Citation Alerts
• It allow you to monitor citation activity for
  any WoS article.
• Using the EndNote Web
• (web-based reference organizer)

• Scopus
• Set up alerts
• Search alerts send new results from a previous
  search directly to your mailbox.
• Document citation alerts notify you when an
  article you specify is cited by another article.
• Personalize
• You can edit your searches, save them for a
  future session or set up an alert to receive new
  results by email.

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Useful links

• Web of Science
• Recorded Training http//scientific.thomsonreuter
  s.com/training/wos/recorded_training
• Tutorials http//scientific.thomson.com/tutorials
  /wos8/
• Materials http//scientific.thomsonreuters.com/tr
  aining/wos/materials
• EndNote Web
• Recorded Training http//scientific.thomsonreuter
  s.com/training/endnoteweb/recorded_training
• Materials http//scientific.thomsonreuters.com/tr
  aining/endnoteweb/materials
• Scopus
• Quick demo http//www.info.scopus.com/setup/promo
  /demo/sc_DEMO_0407.html
• Author Identifier http//info.scopus.com/etc/auth
  oridentifier/Demo_Scopus/
• About Scopus Tutorials http//help.scopus.com/rob
  o/projects/schelp/h_tutorials.htm
• Tutorials http//help.scopus.com/robo/projects/sc
  help/tutorials/sc_menu.html
• Tutorials from the Yale Medical Library
• Citation Analysis http//cwml-tutorials.blogspot.
  com/search/label/Citation Analysis

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Thank you for your attention.
Anna BerhidiSemmelweis University Central
Libraryaberhidi_at_lib.sote.hu November 2009