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November 12, 2006

New Features in Web of Science

New in Web of Science®:

November 2006 - Key Upgrades to Web of Science
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Citation Report -- Capture citation activity and identify citation trends with this new Web of Science® tool.
Citation Report enables users to instantly create formatted reports for any general search of up to 10,000 records. Quickly view vital citation information for an individual or institution, such as sums of citations, average citations per item and year, paper counts, and a quality/quantity indicator, the h index. Graphical summaries displaying paper publication and citation trends. Easy access to all citing items with the ability to remove self-citations and further examine the information using the Analyze Tool. A breakdown of the citation history for each record which can be exported for further analysis.

AUTHORSHIP TOOLS
A suite of new Thomson authorship tools helps researchers quickly locate articles likely written by the same author. These new authorship tools help users find their own works, or those of a colleague, in a simple, single search. They can then analyze and report on these works using the powerful tools available in ISI Web of Knowledge. The new tools include:

Distinct Author Identification System in Web of Science -- How do you distinguish one author from another? A remarkable new approach starts to address the problem of author Disambiguation across a full century of scholarly information. A powerful "disambiguation " algorithm has been created for Web of Science and is being introduced in phases, starting with the most highly cited authors.
Avoiding the pitfalls of a simplistic solution, all of the elements in the indexed records and the full range of citation relationships have been combined with sophisticated mathematical techniques to organize all records in Web of Science by "authorships" -- groups of papers by the same author.
The Distinct Author Identification System uses citation data to create a cluster of articles for a selected author. Web of Science users can access this feature by selecting an author name from the Web of Science record. If the author name has been processed through the Distinct Author Identification System, the cluster of articles will be presented.

Full Author Names -- This enhancement eliminates mistaken author identity, which often occurs with the last name-first initial format. Web of Science now captures full author names as they are listed in original records. Going forward, this will make it easier to determine whether "J. Smith" is John, James or Jan, and further aid the researcher's attempts to locate correct authors. (Not available for records prior to 2006.)

Other enhancements in ISI Web of Knowledge include:
EndNote® Web -- This new Web-based tool provides users with online storage for their references and the ability to instantly format bibliographies in their word processor. All academic and government ISI Web of Knowledge subscribers, as well as those customers with EndNote® sitewide licenses are now receiving free, direct access to EndNote Web. All other customers should contact their account managers for further information.
More about EndNote Web.

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Posted by Donna Braquet at November 12, 2006 05:30 PM