Saved Searches and Alerts

• For any saved search, you can activate an alert, and at any time you can turn off alerts by changing the status to Inactive.
• Click Rerun Search to rerun the saved search
• Change how often you receive alerts by selecting from the Frequency drop-down box.
• If you want, select Receive emails when there are no new results, otherwise, you will only receive emails when there are new results for your search.
• Saved searches don’t expire, but you can delete them at any time by clicking Remove alert.

This option is not yet available in the new Web of Science. To run a locally saved search, return to "Classic" Web of Science using the Product menu at the top right corner of thw Web of Science.

To open a search history that was saved to the hard disk of your computer or to a local network:

1. Select the check box of a saved search history from the Saved Searches column.
2. At the bottom of the Saved Searches and Alerts overlay, click Choose File.
3. Navigate to the folder or directory where your search histories are stored.
4. In the dialog box, select the search history that you want to open, and then click the Open button to go to the View History page.
5. On the View History page, click the Run Search button.
6. If desired, change your timespan and settings.
7. Click the Continue button to go to the Search History page.
8. Click the number link in the Results column to go to the Results page.

The saved searches table lists the search histories you have saved to our server. The saved searches are in alphabetical order by product and then by history name.

Alert Status

Under Alert Status, toggle between Inactive and Active to turn alerts on and off, and if necessary, change how often you want to receive alerts by making a selection from the Frequency drop-down box.

Remove Alert

At any time, you can delete a saved search from your list by clicking Remove Alert. You will see a confirmation message, and then you can click Remove. Remember, you can only remove one search at a time, and you can't recall a saved search after you remove it.

You must be a registered user and signed into the Web of Science to view saved searches

When you open a search history file created from a previous version of the product, your search may yield more results if you had used the SAME operator in your query. In the current version, the SAME operator works exactly like AND in most fields (such as the Topic and Title fields).

For example, the search query: TS=Bird Migration SAME TS=South America* is automatically translated in the current version of the product into: TS=Bird Migration AND TS=South America* and produces a larger set of search results than the original query.

When opening a saved search history file from a previous version of the product, consider revising your query if you had used the SAME operator in the query.

The exception to the rule discussed, here, is the Address field where SAME operator rules still apply.

Saved Searches from Earlier Versions

You can open a search history file created from an earlier product version in the current version. However, you cannot open a search history file created from the current product version in an earlier product version.