These are the slides for my talk about some features provided by Thomson and Reuter's 'Web of Science'.

1. Philosophische Fakultät, Institut für Kommunikationswissenschaft, Lehrstuhl II
Dresden, 31.05.2013
Web of Science
Some important features and potentials of
search tasks

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Inhalt
1. Access Requirements
2. Basic Information
3. Researcher ID
4. Analytic Features
4.1 Author’s Publication Activities
4.2 Trends and Developments of Themes
4.3 Monitoring
5. Are There Alternatives?
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1. Access Requirements
The use is charged – generally libraries grant
access (e.g. SLuB)
Application has to be done via ZIH-Login or
SLuB Profile (VPN-Client, at SLuB Computers)
Homepage:
via SLuB Search ‚Web of Science‘ or
direct www.webofknowledge.com
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2. Basic Information
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2. Basic Information
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Weekly update
Citations
• cited articles in an article
• cited authors in an article
• how often authors are cited, and from whom. Even
for external articles.
Related Records
• Detection of similar articles
Citation Report
h-Index

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3. „Researcher ID“
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4. Analytic Features: Author‘s Publication Activities
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Co-authors in cited
articles
4. Analytic Features: Author‘s Publication Activities

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Co-authors in cited
articles
authors, who cite this
author‘s articles
4. Analytic Features: Author‘s Publication Activities

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Co-authors in cited
articles
authors, who cite this
author‘s articles
Locations of co-authors
4. Analytic Features: Author‘s Publication Activities

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Co-authors in cited
articles
authors, who cite this
author‘s articles
Locations of co-authors
Locations of authors, who
cite this author‘s articles
…
4. Analytic Features: Author‘s Publication Activities

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4. Analytic Features: Trends & Developements of
Themes

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4. Analytic Features: Trends & Developements of
Themes

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4. Analytic Features: Trends & Developements of
Themes

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4. Analytic Features: Trends & Developements of
Themes

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4. Analytic Features: Trends & Developements of
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4. Analytic Features: Trends & Developements of
Themes

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4. Analytic Features: Trends & Developements of
Themes

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4. Analytic Features: Monitoring

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5. Are There Alternatives?
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Main Problems of Web of Science
• Focus on US-american Journals
• Criteria for subscribed selection of Journals
are not clarified satisfying
• Small number of Open Access Journals
• Small number of conference articles

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5. Are There Alternatives?
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Web of Science Scopus
ETHBibliothekZürich.

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Web of Science Scopus
ETHBibliothekZürich.
5. Are There Alternatives?

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Literature
ETH Bibliothek Zürich. URL:
http://www.library.ethz.ch/Ressourcen/Datenbanken/Web-of-Science [Stand:
18.02.2013]
Scopus. URL: http://www.scopus.com/ [Stand: 22.02.2013]
Universitätsbibliothek Basel. URL: http://www.ub.unibas.ch/ub-
hauptbibliothek/recherche/elektronische-medien/zugangsberechtigung/web-of-
knowledge/ [Stand: 21.02.2013]
Web of Science. URL:
http://apps.webofknowledge.com/WOS_GeneralSearch_input.do?product=WOS
&SID=Q16J5lNdaC16egg4Oh1&search_mode=GeneralSearch
Tutorials for Web of Science
http://thomsonreuters.com/products_services/science/training/wos/
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