Web of Science for Nursing 530

Hannah Millward Fisher, MLSAssociate Librarian

Access to the Web of Science Go to the Library’s web page. www.ahsl.arizona.edu Click on databases. Click on “W”. Select Web of Science.

Web of Science

This is the Gateway page, press go.

Web of Science Web of Science is known as

Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index and the Arts and Humanities Index.

You may select each as a separate entity to search or search all at once.

You may elect to do a general search, an advanced search or a cited search.

Searching for cited works To search for cited works, put the

author’s name in the search box, last name first, initials. If you aren’t sure if they use one or two initials, put in the first initial then an asterisk.

Then press search

Put author’s name in the search box

Citations Just by putting in the author’s name,

I have found different journals where the author has been cited. As you look at the left column, you see some articles have been cited only a few in times.

Others have been cited many times.

Author Cited Search You can see that by not refining

the search, you can pull everything the author has written that is indexed in Web of Science.

You may wish to just look at one cited work. For example; let’s redo the search and asked for Molmenti E* and

P NATL ACAD SCI USA

When you view the record you see the

author has been cited 112 times. The author has cited 29 other authors in his article.

If you click on times cited, youwill see references to all the authors

who have cited this work from1994 to 2006.

Cited References You have the option to view the

references who cited the cited author. Some of these citations are available in full text.

Nursing References Only thirty-three nursing journals

are listed in the Web of Science. You can look for those nursing

journals, you may wish to find who has been cited and also you may go to the Journal Citation Reports.

Journal Citation Reports One of the services in this

database is the Journal Citation Reports and Impact Factors.

Other services through this database.

Read this first.

To see the listof journals

In subject Category, Cursor

to nursing;Click submit.

Nursing Journals This is a partial list of journals in

Web of Science. There are only 33 in the impact factor list. The impact factor is done yearly. You select the specific year you wish to see.

Impact Factor List You may wish to submit

manuscripts to the journals which have the highest impact factors.