Author Search
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Note: Author Search is only available in the Web of Science Core Collection.
Use author search to search for an author and see their author recordcontains a set of documents likely authored by the same person.. Author Search helps identify articles likely authored by the same person.
In the appropriate fields, find an author by typing their last name followed by their first name. You can include a hyphen, a space, or an apostrophe in the Last Name field. For example:
- Wilson
- O'Grady
- Ruiz-Gomez
- De La Rosa
- Van der Waals
Searching for an Author Record
Any author with a paper indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection has an author record.
- You can search for an author by name or their author identifierAn author's Web of Science ResearcherID or ORCID ID..
- By default, Name Search is selected; click the drop-down arrow and select Author Identifier if you want to search for an author’s Web of Science ResearcherID or ORCID.
Author Search Results
- The search results page lists author records that match your search. If there is only one author record associated with the author you’re searching, the author record automatically opens and bypasses the search results page.
- Refine your search results by author name, organization, and subject category to retrieve more relevant results.
- You can start a new author search directly from the search results page. Click the search box located below the number of search results to open a pop-up window.
View as a Combined Record
There may be multiple author records for one author. You can select multiple author records and click View as Combined Record to view all documents from an author in one record.
