Citation Analysis in Web of Science
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This document provides instructions for using the Web of Science database to analyze citations for a specific paper. It explains how to locate the most highly cited paper and view its record page, which contains citation data that can be analyzed. This includes viewing the cited references, papers that have cited this paper, and related papers organized by subject tags. The user is guided through sorting and filtering citation results to understand how the original paper's findings were used in other research over time.
Citation Analysis in Web of Science
- 1. From the library’s home page, click on the databases tab. Find the database Web of Science from the A-Z list by clicking on the W.
- 2. Web of Science is a multi-disciplinary database, containing millions of published scholarly works in the social sciences, sciences, and the humanities. It contains material from 1900-present. It also has a tool for analyzing citations in depth. The following slides will walk you through the process of analyzing citations for a specific paper.
- 3. To get started, use the drop down menu to change your search option from Topic to Title.
- 4. We are going to analyze the citations of this paper, the most highly cited paper of all time.
- 5. Once you locate the paper, click on the title to access it’s record page. To access the paper itself, click on the Article Linker button to connect to the library’s electronic copy.
- 6. The record page displays all of the information about the paper that Web of Science has collected and added to the database. Whenever you are searching library databases, your search is limited to which words and data are listed in the record page.
- 7. The Citation Network sidebar contains all of the citation data that you can analyze. You can look through cited references to examine the bibliography of the paper. By clicking on times cited, you can see which scientists have listed this paper in the bibliography of a paper they wrote. Let’s get a closer look by clicking on the 25 Cited References link.
- 8. By clicking the Article Linker button, you can connect directly to the cited paper. You’ll see the Article Linker button in all library databases. Article Linker is a tool that searches through the library’s subscriptions to check and see if there is an electronic copy available.
- 9. Clicking on any of the titles listed brings you to a record page for that paper. To access the papers that have used these scientists findings in their own research, you can click on the times cited link.
- 10. Click on the Return to Search Results link to get back to the beginning of your search, then navigate back to the Protein Measurement with the Folin Phenol Reagent’s record page.
- 11. Once you get back to the record page, click on the 327,954 Times Cited. This will bring you to the records of the papers that cite this paper in their bibliographies. Looking at the times cited allows you to be able to track how ideas develop over time.
- 12. From the results list, you can use the drop down menu to sort your results. Sorting by number of times cited gives you a result list that starts with the papers used the most frequently in other scientists research findings.
- 13. You can analyze how scientists used Protein Measurement with the Folin Phenol Reagent as part of their own research by using the options under Refine Results. If you are searching for something specific you can always search within the results for a keyword or an author.
- 14. Another helpful tool is to narrow by publication years, especially if you’re looking to see which scientists are using the original research today, and how it factors into their findings. Let’s get a closer look at how this paper was used to support other scientists research findings by looking at the Web of Science research area subject tags. Click on the more options / values link.
- 15. The Research Areas displayed are the disciplines that Web of Science has tagged for the papers that cite Protein Measurement with the Folin Phenol Reagent. They are default sorted by record count, with the subject tags used the most frequently for identifying the papers’ research areas ordered first. Click on the Analyze Results link to inspect further.
- 16. Select Research Areas from the rank records by this field list, select the amount of results you want, and how you would like them sorted. Click Analyze.
- 17. Next, select which Research Areas you are interest to generate a results list. You can export the records into a file that you can open with Microsoft Excel, or Google Sheets.
- 18. You can use the Web of Science citation analysis tools to look at how ideas develop over time by being able to make linkages between articles that cite each other. If you have any difficulty accessing Web of Science, please contact your librarian for help.