WebofScience(WoS) is an interdisciplinary bibliometrics database, including journals, conference records and patents of science, social science, art and humanities, and it is also a tool for literature citation analysis. This article will introduce how to cite documents in WebofScience.
Create a personal account
Before using WoS, you need to create a personal account. Click the "Register" button on the login page, fill in the registration form, and create an account after verification. This account can be used to save search records, export documents and receive suggestions and other services from WoS.
Search literature
There are two search boxes on the main interface of WoS, namely basic search and advanced search. Basic search allows you to search for documents using keywords, authors, journal names and other information, while advanced search supports more search options, such as title, abstract, author institution, publication date, language and so on. If you want to combine search conditions, you can use the start instructions "AND", "OR" and ".
Select literature
After the search is completed, WoS will return to the list of search results. You can select the literature you need by screening the results. There are many options for screening methods, such as literature types, published journals, published years, research fields, etc. After selecting a document, you can export it to your own citation management tool or conduct citation analysis.
Cited literature
In WoS, there are two ways to refer to documents. The first method is to directly click a document in the result list, enter the detailed information page of the document, and click the "Citation" button at the bottom of the page to get the citation information. Another way is to click "Citation Report" on the "My Research" page, enter the author, title and other information in the search box to search, select the required literature, click the "Citation" button to obtain citation information, or choose to export to BibTex, EndNote and other formats.
Conduct citation analysis
WoS can use citation reporting tools for citation analysis. On the "My Research" page, click the "Citation Report" button, select the literature to be analyzed, and the system will automatically generate information such as the cited times, published journals, and cited literature. In addition, with the help of WoS, visual charts such as "keyword heat map" and "citation network map" can be generated, which is convenient for understanding the influence and citation trend of literature.
summary
This paper introduces how to create a personal account, search for documents, select documents, quote documents and conduct citation analysis on WebofScience. Using WoS skillfully can obtain ideal literature resources more quickly and accurately, locate research hotspots and key information, and thus improve the quality and efficiency of research.