Have you noticed some changes in the new Web of Science version 5? Not only the layout was updated there are new features available. So what’s new?
Search features
- automatic searches for alternative forms of your search term such as spelling variations and name variants – lemmatization can be turned on and off
- there are no stop words in the topic field
- the new introduced NEAR operator lets you specify the distance between your search terms
- new search fields: DOI (Digital Object Identifier), ResearcherID
- search full words in the address field (e.g. University)
- search author name as published (for records from 2007 onwards)
- left hand truncation will be allowed with the October WoS release
Citation counts
- the Web of Science citation count as well as the overall Web of Knowledge citation count is displayed, so article citation counts include cites from three sources: Web of Science, Biosis Citation Index, Chinese Science Citation Database – we have a subscription for Web of Science, so only these links to citing articles can be viewed
Managing results
- no record viewing limit anymore
- abstract preview on the results page
- analyze more than 100,000 results by different criteria
- marked list: combined list across different databases
Web of Science website: “Would you like to see how each feature works?“