Advanced Search Field Tags

Use these two-character field tags to return more relevant results when building advanced search queries.

Field Tag

Description

AD=Address

Searches for institution and/or place names in the Addresses field.

AI=Author Identifiers

Searches for Web of Science ResearcherID numbers and ORCID identifiers in the Author Identifiers table within a record.

Enter a unique Web of Science ResearcherID number or ORCID identifier with the AI field tag.

AU=Author

Searches for author names in the Author(s) field within a record.

DO=DOI (Digital Object Identifier)

Searches for the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) in the Source field within a record.

EC=ARCI Subject Categories

Searches the ARCI Categories field in a record.

FT=Funding Text

Searches the Funding field within a record. Click the Show Funding Text link to see the funding text. For example:

The program has benefited greatly from the financial support of the National Science Foundation, the World Bank, the Harvard Center for International Development, and the U.S Institute of Peace as well as from the support of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs

IS=ISSN

Searches the ISSN field within a record.

The ISSN (International Standard Serial Number) searches for periodical publications such as journals and electronic publications. If a journal has both a print ISSN and an electronic ISSN, then both display in the Full Record. The format is four numbers, a hyphen (-), three numbers, and then a check character that may be a number or X.

OO=Organization

Searches for organizations and institutions in the Addresses field within a record.

PY=Year Published

Searches the Source Published field within a record. You must combine this field tag with another field tag using the AND or NOT Boolean operator.

Example: TS=cell growth AND PY=2007

When entering a range of years, restrict your search to five years or less; otherwise, processing slows down and the product returns too many unproductive results.

Example: TS=cell growth AND PY=(2008-2010)

SO=Publication Name

Searches for publication names in the Source field within a record. The product retrieves all source titles within a product database (for example, journal titles and/or book titles if the product includes books).

SU=Research Area

Searches the Research Areas field.

TI=Title

Searches the Title field within a record.

TS=Topic

Searches for topic terms in the following fields within a record.

Title

Abstract

Author Keywords

UT=Accession Number

Searches the Accession Number field within a record. The accession number is a unique identifying number associated with each record in the product. It consists of a product identification code, a product year, and an item number.