Enter Topic terms to search the following fields within a record.

• Title
• Abstract
• Author Keywords
• Keywords Plus®

Enter search terms in any order. The following searches are equivalent:

• radioactive decay
• decay radioactive

To search for an exact phrase, use quotation marks. Example: "radioactive decay"

Use wildcards (* $ ?) to find plural and inflected forms of words.

Use search operators (AND, OR, NOT, NEAR, SAME) to prescribe a relationship between terms such as equivalence, exclusion or proximity.

Title refers to the title of a journal article, proceedings paper, book or book chapter. To search for the title of a journal, select the Publication Name field.

Enter author names to search the following fields within a record.

• Author(s)
• Book Author(s)
• Book Group Author(s)
• Group Author(s)

Enter the last name first followed by a space and the author's initials. The system automatically adds the asterisk (*) wildcard when you enter only one initial. So, entering Johnson M is the same as entering Johnson M*.

Enter a wildcard after each initial in an author's name. For example, Johnson M*S* is a valid search query.

Note: You must enter at least two characters before a wildcard when searching a last name: For example: sm*

Anonymous Authors

To search for anonymous authors, enter anonymous in the Author field. The term Anonymous will appear in the Author(s) field on the results and full record pages.

Author Names (Boolean)

To search on a name that resembles a Boolean (AND, OR, NOT, NEAR, and SAME), enclose the name in quotation marks. Example: "Or"

Searching for Journal Authors

To restrict your search to authors of journal articles, deselect the two conference and book citation indexes.

Searching for Proceedings Authors

To restrict your search to authors of conference papers, select only the two conference proceedings citation indexes. Deselect all other citation indexes. Web of Science contains the names of all authors associated with a source document such as journal articles, proceeding papers, books, and book chapters.

Author Names 1964-1975

When you view the full record of articles from data years 1964-1975, you will notice surnames containing more than eight characters are truncated. For example, a search for Wilkinson PN appears in the full record as WILKINSO.PN.

Author Search Tip: To restrict the results of your search, combine an Author search with another field such as Topic, Title, or Address.

An author identifier is a Web of Science ResearcherID number or ORCID.

A-1009-2008 finds records of documents authored by a researcher whose Web of Science ResearcherID number is A-1009-2008.

0000-0003-3768-1316 finds records of documents authored by a researcher whose ORCID is 0000-0003-3768-1316.

Do not use a wildcard (* ? $) in your search query as the system may return unpredictable results

View Researcher Profile and ORCID

This table lists the authors who have claimed the document as their work. Click an identifier to view the author's publication list on their researcher profile, hosted on Publons, or ORCID. An author may have a Web of Science ResearcherID number or an ORCID, or both.

If you're the author of the article, add it to your researcher profile, hosted on Publons, by selecting Claim on Publons - Track Citations from the drop-down menu.

For more information about Publons, visit publons.com.

For more information about ORCID, visit orcid.org.

Web of Science ResearcherID Number Examples

B-9809-2012

E-5323-2012

C-5128-2011

ORCID Examples

0000-0001-6298-2335

0000-0002-6991-3743

0000-0003-3768-8390

Want to know more?

Visit the Publons website to learn more about ResearcherID.

Enter topic terms to search the following fields within a record:

Topic (Title, Abstract, Keywords, Keywords Plus)

Author, Editor, Corporate Author, Group Author

Author Identifier

Publication Name

DOI

Publication Year

Address

Organization-Enhanced

Conference

Language

Document Type

ISSN

Funding Agency

Funding Text

Grant Number

Accession Number

PubMedID

Enter search terms in any order. For example, you can type radioactive decay 2014 Drexel or 2014 drexel decay radioactive and see the same number of search results.

To search for an exact phrase, put the term in quotations: "radioactive decay"

Use wildcards (* $ ?) to find plural and inflected forms of words.

Use search operators (AND, OR, NOT) to indicate a relationship between terms.

Important: the All Fields search field does not support the SAME and NEAR operators.

A group author is an organization or institution that is credited with authorship of a source publication such as an article, a book, a proceeding, or another type of work.

Enter a group author name to search the following fields within a full record: Corporate Author(s)and Book Group Author(s).

Enter full names or partial names using wildcards (* $ ?). For example, the search for Worldwide* finds group authors such as:

Worldwide Network Blood & Marrow T

Worldwide Wave Investigators

Worldwide Study Grp

Enter the name of an editor to search the Editor(s) field within a record. Be aware that a corporate author can also be an editor.

Enter full names or partial names using wildcards (* $ ?). Join multiple names with the Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT).

Editor names appear on the Results page and Full Record page as last name followed by a first name and/or initials.

Enter a publication name to search the Source field within a record. The product retrieves:

• Journal titles

• Books

• Book titles

• Book series titles

• Book subtitles

• Book series subtitles

• And more ...

Enter a full or partial publication name followed by a wildcard (* ? $). For example: Cell Biology* finds:

• Cell Biology International

• Cell Biology International Reports

• Cell Biology Research Progress

Enclose journal titles in quotation marks ( " " ) to find the exact named journal title. For example, "Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry" only returns records of articles published in Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.

Use the OR Boolean operator to find records of articles published in any of the specified publications. For example, "Forensic Toxicology" OR "Drug Testing and Analysis" finds records of articles published in either Forensic Toxicology or Drug Testing and Analysis.

Auto-Suggest Publication Name

You can quickly find a specific journal (or find similar journal names that may be valuable to your research) if you set Auto-Suggest Publication Names to ON under the Modify Settings section of the search page. The product displays up to 10 suggestions as you type at least 3 characters without beginning spaces. The list automatically updates as you type more than 3 characters.

Type GENE in the Publication Name field to see publications such as:

• gene

• gene amsterdam

• gene expression omnibus

• and more ...

Type GENE THERAPY in the Publication Name field to see:

• gene therapy

• gene therapy and gene delivery systems

• gene therapy and molecular biology

• and more ...

You can temporarily hide auto-suggestion by pressing the Esc key as you type characters in the Publication Name field.

Search suggestions are based on your organization's subscription. The selected journal name does not always guarantee that the system finds records because the search timespan you select may filter out qualified articles.

Modify Settings: Auto-Suggest Publication Names (Caution)

Selecting the Chinese language as the search language in All Databases or the Chinese Science Citation Database automatically turns off the auto suggestion setting in all silo product databases in Web of Science. The OFF option will actually appear in the Auto-Suggest Publication Names box in all product.

To turn back on the auto suggestion feature, you must first select English or Auto Select as the search language in Modify Settings. Next, you must set the Auto-Suggest feature to ON. Once this happens, the ON option will appear in the Auto-Suggest box in all product databases.

You can go to Web of Science Core Collection and other product databases and manually turn on Auto-Suggestions.

Booleans in Source Titles

Searching for journal titles that contain the OR Boolean is acceptable with Auto-Suggest Publication Name turned ON or OFF.

Ampersands

Many journal names contain an ampersand (&) in the title. The product returns the same number of records whether you enter the ampersand or not. For example:

Entering Past Present is the same as entering Past & Present and returns the same number of records.

Entering Language History is the same as entering Language & History and returns the same number of records.

Entering Science Education is the same as entering Science & Education and returns the same number of records.

However, journal titles in the Publication Name Index do not contain the ampersand. For example, the journal called Science & Education appears in the Index as Science Education.

Journal Search

For a complete list of journals in the product, go to our Master Journal List.

After you access the Master Journal List page, select the Journal Alerts tab. Then select a searchable index to:

• Find a specific journal by title, title words, or ISSN.

• View a list of all journals.

• View a list of all journals covered in a specific subject category.

• View a list of all journal coverage changes.

• Source Publication List for Web of Science Core Collection

• Arts & Humanities Index

• Science Citation Index Expanded

• Social Science Citation Index

Click a link for a complete list of journal titles within the selected Web of Science journal index that you can review, save, or print.

See also Master Journal List for a list of journal abbreviations that you can enter in the Cited Work field when performing a Cited Reference Search.

Searching for Books

When searching for a book, try searching both the Topic and Publication Name fields.

For example, the book called The Rivers of Italy is part of a series called Ecosystems of the World. The Rivers of Italy is the title and Ecosystems of the World is the source publication. For example:

Topic: Rivers AND Italy

Publication Name: Ecosystems*

Journal Title Changes

The journal search page on the Clarivate website includes new journal titles added to Web of Science Core Collection over the past 12 months. The list also includes title changes, title updates, reactivations, and dropped titles.

A Digital Object Identifier (DOI) is a character string used to uniquely identify an electronic document. It is similar to an ISSN that uniquely identifies a journal or an ISBN that uniquely identifies a book.

Metadata about the object is stored in association with the DOI name and this metadata may include a URL where you can find the document.

The Digital Object Identifier (DOI®) is a system for permanently identifying and exchanging intellectual property in the digital environment.

Enter a unique DOI code to quickly find a specific record.

Enter one or more codes connected with the OR search operator to find multiple records.

Enter partial codes and include an asterisk (*) wildcard at the end of the code to find multiple records with DOI codes that begin with the numbers that you enter in the search field.

Note: If you enter an inaccurate DOI number, the product may return unexpected results. Always check your query to ensure that the DOI number is accurate.

Enter 10.14489/vkit.2014.12.pp.018-023 to the record of the article whose DOI is 10.14489/vkit.2014.12.pp.018-023

Enter 10.14489/vkit.2014.12* to find records of articles whose DOI begins with the string 10.14489/vkit.2014.12, including:

10.14489/vkit.2014.12.pp.010-017

10.14489/vkit.2014.12.pp.018-023

10.14489/vkit.2014.12.pp.024-029

Enter a four-digit year or a range of years. For example:

2015

2010-2015

You should always combine a search by Year Published with a search by another field such as Topic, Author or Publication Name.

If your search by Year Published retrieves no results, check the timespan setting. The timespan setting may exclude records in the year range you specify.

Do not use a wildcard to indicate a year range. For example, the search 2012-2014 will retrieve records for these two years, but 200* will return an error message.

Note: A search of Year Published will include both Published Early Access Year and Final Publication Year.

• For example, searching Year Published = 2022, will return items with Final Publication Year of 2022 and any items with Published Early Access Year of 2022.

• This will also impact the years displayed for Refine an Analyze Results. In the case where an item's Published Early Access Year is different from the Final Publication Year, the Published Early Access year will be used for both Refine and Analyze. Thus, a search of Year Published=2021 may show a Refine Results for Publication year with items listed for 2019, 2020 and 2021.

Search the Address fields by entering the full or partial name of an institution and/or location from an author's address. For example, Univ and University finds institutions in which the term "Univ" appears in the Addresses field within a record.

When entering full names, do not use articles (a, an, the) and prepositions (of, in, for) in the name. For example, entering UNIV Pennsyvania is OK but entering University of Pennsylvania results in an error message.

Note that common address terms may be abbreviated in the product database. For example, the word Department may be abbreviated as Dept or Dep.

We recommend that you combine an Address search with an Author search to broaden or narrow your search results.

Note: In Web of Science Core Collection and Current Contents Connect records, a superscript number may appear after an author's name in a Full Record. This means we have found an association between the author's name and the author's address. When you click the number link, the system takes you to the Addresses field where you can see the author's address.

Address Synonyms and Abbreviations

Common address terms and many institution names are abbreviated in the product database.

Terms such Univ, Med, and Phys must be entered as part of an address phrase. For example, Penn State Univ is acceptable, but Univ alone is not.

About Older Records:

• Older records may not have addresses associated with a record.

Search for preferred organization names and/or their name variants from the Preferred Organization Index.

Enter complete names or partial names using wildcards (* $ ?). When searching for multiple preferred names or multiple name variants, separate the names using the OR Boolean operator.

Booleans in Organization Names

When searching for organization names that contain a Boolean (AND, NOT, NEAR, and SAME), always enclose the word in quotation marks ( " " ). For example:

(Japan Science "and" Technology Agency (JST))

("Near" East Univ)

("OR" Hlth Sci Univ)

You can also enclose the entire query in quotation marks. For example:

"Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)"

"Near" East Univ"

"OR Hlth Sci Univ"

rganizations - Enhanced List

Select the search aid to go to the Organization-Enhanced List where you can view and select preferred organization names and/or their variants.

Selecting the preferred name from the search aid generally returns more precise and accurate results.

Selecting a variant from the search aid executes a search that includes the preferred name and the name variant.

Searching - Preferred Name

Selecting a preferred name from the search aid, or entering a preferred name in the Organization-Enhanced field, returns all records with addresses linked to the preferred name.

For example, the preferred name Columbia University returns all records that include Columbia Univ and any of the variants in the address of a record such as:

Yale Univ, New Haven, CT 06520 USA

Columbia Univ, New York, NY 10027 USA

Data in the Organization-Enhanced List

Due to timing differences between when records are loaded and when the search aid is refreshed, you may not see a particular name variant. Likewise, a variant may be listed in the search aid but retrieve no records because the address in the record has been corrected.

The Conference field allows you to search for records of conference proceedings.

You must have a subscription to one or both Conference Proceedings citation indexes to search for and to view conference records.

The Conference field allows you to search the following fields within a record for conference proceedings papers.

• Conference Title

• Conference Location

• Conference Date

• Conference Sponsor

Enter one or more terms connected with search operators (AND, OR, NOT, NEAR). Enter complete words and phrases or partial words and phrases using wildcards (* $ ?).

Search Tip

Use the AND search operator to combine search terms in the Conference field.

Often, just one or two words connected by AND will be enough to search for a particular meeting.

For example, lithium AND Scotland AND 1998 find records of papers from the 9th International Meeting on Lithium Batteries, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 12-17, 1998.

Records in this product include a language indicator that categorizes documents by the language in which they are written.

To restrict your search, select one or more languages from the list. The default selection is All languages.

• All languages

• English

• Afrikaans

• Arabic

• Basque

• Bengali

• Bulgarian

• Byelorussian

• Catalan

• Chinese

• Croatian

• Czech

• Danish

• Dutch

• Estonian

• Finnish

• Flemish

• French

• Gaelic

• Galician

• Georgian

• German

• Greek

• Hebrew

• Hungarian

• Icelandic

• Italian

• Japanese

• Korean

• Latin

• Latvian

• Lithuanian

• Macedonian

• Malay

• Multi-Language

• Norwegian

• Persian

• Polish

• Portuguese

• Provencal

• Rumanian

• Russian

• Serbian

• Serbo-Croatian

• Slovak

• Slovenian

• Spanish

• Swedish

• Thai

• Turkish

• Ukrainian

• Unspecified

• Welsh

When you limit a search by document type, you retrieve only those records that contain the search term(s) you entered in the search fields and the document type(s) you selected from the list.

A search by document type should be combined with a search by another field such as Topic or Author.

Document Type Descriptions

Article: Reports of research on original works. Includes research papers, features, brief communications, case reports, technical notes, chronology, and full papers that were published in a journal and/or presented at a symposium or conference.

Abstract of Published Item: Bibliographic-only data on a published paper. Generally finds records dating back to 1974 or before.

Art Exhibit Review: Reviews of gallery or museum showings of artworks.

Bibliography: A list, often with descriptive or critical notes, of writings relating to a particular subject.

Biographical-Item: Obituaries, articles focusing on the life of an individual, and articles that are tributes to or commemorations of an individual.

Book: A monograph or publication written on a specific topic.

Book Chapter: A monograph or publication written on a specific topic within a main division in a book.

Book Review: A critical appraisal of a book (often reflecting a reviewer's personal opinion or recommendation) that evaluates such aspects as organization and writing style, possible market appeal, and cultural, political, or literary significance.

Chronology: A review of events on a specific topic or subject in their order of occurrence in time.

Correction: Correction of errors found in articles that were previously published and which have been made known after that article was published. Includes additions, errata, and retractions.

Correction, Addition: Correction of errors found in articles that were previously published and which have been made known after that article was published. Includes additions, errata, and retractions.

Dance Performance Review: Reviews of solo dance recitals, complete dance productions, dance programs consisting of several works, and other types of performed dances.

Data Paper: A scholarly publication describing a particular dataset or collection of datasets and usually published in the form of a peer-reviewed article in a scholarly journal. The main purpose of a data paper is to provide facts about the data (metadata, such as data collection, access, features etc) rather than analysis and research in support of the data, as found in a conventional research article.

Database Review: A critical appraisal of a database, often reflecting a reviewer's personal opinion or recommendation. Refers to a structured collection of records or data that is stored in a computer system.

Discussion: An article or paper that discusses questions in an open and usually informal debate. Generally finds records dating back to 1996 or before.

Early Access: An article that has been electronically published by a journal before it has been assigned to a specific volume and issue.

Editorial Material: An article that gives the opinions of a person, group, or organization. Includes editorials, interviews, commentary, and discussions between individual, post-paper discussions, round table symposia, and clinical conferences.

Excerpt: A selection from or a fragment of a literary or musical work, which cannot stand as a separate work in its own right.

Expression of Concern: An "Expression of Concern" is a notification about the integrity of a publication that is typically written by and editor. The outcome may result in a retraction or a correction.

Fiction, Creative Prose: Includes short stories and other works of creative prose.

Film Review: A review of a motion picture.

Hardware Review: A critical appraisal of computer hardware, often reflecting a reviewer's personal opinion or recommendation. Refers to objects that you can actually touch, like disk drives, keyboards, printers.

Item About An Individual: A review of the work(s) of a celebrated person in a particular field of study.

Item Withdrawal: A published statement from an editor or author announcing the withdrawal of a manuscript and the reason for the withdrawal. It must state in the title/text of that the publication is being withdrawn.

Letter: Contributions or correspondence from the readers to the journal editor concerning previously published material.

Meeting Abstract: A general summation of completed papers that were or will be presented at a symposium or conference.

Meeting Summary: A paper that covers multiple meeting abstracts in a variety of subjects.

Music Performance Review: Review of a live musical performance (recital, concert, and opera).

Music Score: Transcript of the original and entire draft of a musical composition or an arrangement with the parts for the different instruments or voices written on staffs one above another.

Music Score Review: Review of a bound musical composition or bound collection of musical compositions.

News Item: News, current events, and recent developments.

Note: A paper that mentions or remarks on a published paper on a specific subject. Generally finds records dating back to 1996 or before.

Poetry: Compositions in verse; metrical writing.

Proceedings Paper: Published literature of conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions in a wide range of disciplines. Generally published in a book of conference proceedings.

Records covered in the two Conference Proceedings indexes (CPCI-S and CPCI-SSH) are identified as Proceedings Paper. However, the same records covered in the three indexes (SCI-E, SSCI, and A&HCI) are identified as Article when published in a journal.

Publication with Expression of Concern: The original publication that is subject of the publisher's Expression of Concern

Record Review: Reviews of recorded music or speech.

Reprint: An article that was previously published.

Retracted Publication: An article that has been withdrawn by an author, institution, editor, or a publisher because of errors or unsubstantiated data.

Retraction: A public notice that an article should be be withdrawn because of errors or unsubstantiated data.

Review: A renewed study of material previously studied. Includes review articles and surveys of previously published literature. Usually will not present any new information on a subject.

Script: includes film scripts, plays, TV, and radio scripts.

Software Review: A critical appraisal of computer software, often reflecting a reviewer's personal opinion or recommendation. Refers to programs, procedures, and rules, along with associated documentation pertaining to the operation of a computer system.

Theater Review: Review of a performed play.

TV Review, Radio Review: Reviews of television and radio broadcasts.

TV Review, Radio Review, Video Review: Reviews of television, radio broadcasts, and videos.

Withdrawn Publication: The original publication that is being withdrawn

Did You Know ...

Some records in Web of Science may have two document types: Article and Proceedings Paper.

An Article is generally published in a journal. A Proceedings Paper is generally published in a book of conference proceedings. Records covered in the two Conference Proceedings indexes (CPCI-S and CPCI-SSH) are identified as Proceedings Paper. The same records covered in the three indexes (SCI-E, SSCI, and A&HCI) are identified as Article when published in a journal.

Search for funding agency names from the Funding Agency search field. The index contains both the original funding agency name, the preferred funding agency name, and parent agency (when available).

Enter complete names or partial names using wildcards (* $ ?). When searching for multiple preferred names or multiple name variants, separate the names using the OR Boolean operator.

You can enter the full name of an agency. For example:

"National Agency for the Promotion of Science and Technology"

Or, you can enter specific terms that form an agency's name. For example:

National Agency AND Science

Use both the full name of the funding agency and the agency's initials to find all instances of the agency. For example:

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science OR JSPS

Booleans in Funding Agency Names

When searching for funding agency names that contain a Boolean (AND, NOT, NEAR, and SAME), always enclose the word in quotation marks (“ “). For example:

"Near" East Univ

Danish Agency for Science, Technology "and" Innovation

You can also enclose the entire query in quotation marks. For example:

"Near East Univ"

"Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation

Preferred Funding Agency List

Use the Preferred Funding Agency list to see the funding agency names that have been unified.

Searching - Preferred Name

Copying a preferred name from the list into a Funding Agency search returns all records with funding agencies that map to that preferred name.

Data in the Preferred Funding Agency List

Due to timing differences between when records are loaded and when list is refreshed, you may not see a particular preferred name in the list.

Grant information comes from articles in journals covered by Web of Science Core Collection. Grant information indexing began in 2008.

Grant information is publicly available on many Web sites such as PubMed. You can find additional information by entering the grant number when performing a search. For example, a search on "Swiss National Science Foundation" in PubMed finds articles written by researchers from institutions funded by this agency.

In 2016 Web of Science Core Collection began supplementing the grant information with grant agencies and grant numbers from MEDLINE and researchfish®. Records that already contained grant information will not be changed. Records that did not have grant information were updated with grant information from MEDLINE and researchfish®.

Enter a grant number to search the Grant Number field within the Funding Acknowledgment table within a record.

Enter a full or partial grant number. If you enter a partial grant number, end it with the asterisk (*) wildcard. Join multiple grant numbers by the OR Boolean operator.

Note that some grant numbers will find the same record. For example, 9871363 OR 05168 finds the same record.

The accession number is a unique identifying number associated with each record in the product. It consists of an accession number (a product identification code) and a sequence number.

Always join multiple numbers by the OR Boolean operator. Do not use AND, NOT, NEAR, and SAME when searching for accession numbers: the product will return an error message.

Enter a unique accession number to find a specific record. For example, WOS:000301236900016 finds the record that is associated with this unique accession number.

Enter a partial accession number and include an asterisk (*) wildcard at the end. For example, WOS:0003012369* finds all records that begin with this accession number (the example does not include the sequence number), such as:

WOS:000301236900001

WOS:000301236900002

WOS:000301236900003

And so on ...

Enter a partial accession number and include both left-hand and right-hand truncation. For example, *12369* finds all records that contains these numbers in the accession number.

The PubMed ID is a unique identifier assigned to each MEDLINE record. For example, 14847410 finds the record with PubMed ID 14847410.

The search 148474* finds MEDLINE records with a PubMed ID starting with 148474.

Use the OR operator to search for multiple PubMed IDs. For example, 14847410 OR 23455055 finds records that contain the PubMed ID 14847410 or the PubMed ID 23455055. You cannot combine multiple PubMed IDs using the operator AND, NOT, NEAR or SAME.

The advantage of searching Web of Science Core Collection or Current Contents Connect by PubMed ID is that you can get the addresses of all authors of an article. MEDLINE supplies the address of the first listed author of an article.

Use the following guidelines when performing a Cited Author search.

Enter the name of the first author of a multi-authored article, book, data study or patent. Cited references from older articles or articles that do not have matching source records may only include the name of the first author.

You may enter the name of a secondary author. The name of a secondary author is preceded by ellipses (...) in the index.

Enter a last name with a space and at least one initial. Always use a wildcard (* $ ?) after the intial(s) to find all variants of an author's name. For example, Lee FN*

You may enter multiple names separated by a Boolean operator (AND, OR, NOT).

Cited authors include corporate authors and inventors.

If the citation refers to a record that is also a source item published during the timespan covered by your institution's subscription, you can enter the name of any of its authors.

For example, if you are looking for cited references to a work called "Preventing the use of biological weapons: Improving response should prevention fail," published in Clinical Infectious Diseases 30 (6): 926-929 June 2000, then you can enter the name of any of the three authors of the article: Inglesby TV, O'Toole T, or Henderson DA. Ellipses (...) will appear before the name of a secondary author in the Cited Reference Index.

However, it is advisable to enter the name of the first listed author in the Cited Author field. That way, you will be sure to retrieve all variations of the same cited reference.

Guidelines for Entering Names

Format

Enter up to three initials after the last name. It is advisable to truncate after the first initial. For example:

Enter Evans PJ to retrieve references with Evans PJ as a cited author. This search will find references where the full first name of the cited author may be abbreviated as PJ, including

Evans Patrick J.

Evans Paul J.

Enter Evans P* to retrieve references with a cited author whose surname is Evans and whose first initial is P or whose first name begins with P, including:

Evans P

Evans PA

Evans PG

Evans PJ

Evans PP

Evans Patrick J.

Evans Paul J.

Case

Use upper, lower, or mixed case. For example, CRICK, Crick, or crick finds the same results.

Wildcards

Use the asterisk (*) wildcard to represent any number of characters. For example, Aglitsk* matches Aglitskaya, Aglitski, Aglitskii, Aglitskiy.

Use the question mark (?) to represent one character. For example, Bens?n C* matches Bensen C, Benson C, Bensen CA, Benson CS, and so on.

Boolean Search Operators

Separate two or more names by the OR Boolean operator.

If the cited author has a common last name, try combining variations with OR instead of truncating after the first initial. This way, you will retrieve fewer irrelevant references. For example:

Enter Calvin W* OR Brown M* to look up cited references with either of these authors as the cited author.

Enter Brown M* OR Brown ME* to look up cited references with Brown M or Brown ME as the cited author.

Enter Brown M* to look up cited references that match Brown M, Brown MA, Brown MB, Brown ME, and so on.

Quotation Marks

Use quotation marks (") around the words AND, OR, NOT, NEAR, and SAME in any field when you do not intend these words to serve as search operators.

Enter "OR" W* to search for cited works authored by William Or.

Enter Koechli "OR" to search for works authored by O. R. Koechli.

Enter Food "and" Drug Administration or "Food and Drug Adminstration" to search for cited works authored by this agency.

Hyphens and Apostrophes

If the surname contains a hyphen, or apostrophe, enter the name both with and without the punctuation mark. Likewise, enter a surname with embedded spaces with and without the spaces.

Join the two versions of the name with OR.

Obrien R* OR O'Brien R*

Lopez-Gonzalez J* OR Lopezgonzalez J*

Deville A* OR De Ville A*

Length

If the surname is longer than fifteen characters, enter the first fifteen characters followed by an asterisk (*) wildcard to represent the remaining characters. For example, Klapdor-Kleingrothaus* OR KlapdorKleingro* matches

KlapdorKleingrothaus HV

Klapdor-Kleingrothaus HV

Klapdorkleingro.H

Klapdorkleingro.HK

Klapdorkleingro.HV

About Cited Author Names

For cited references, both the primary and secondary author are listed.

Cited Author Search Tips

To search for anonymous authors, enter anonymous in the Cited Author field.

To search on the name AND, OR, NOT, NEAR, and SAME, enclose the name in quotation marks. Example: "Or"

Did You Know ...

The Cited Reference Index may display a shortened version of the name you entered. Regardless, enter the full last name of the author. The search engine automatically adjusts for data variations.

Search for cited works such as cited journals, cited conferences, cited books, and cited book chapters.

Enter an abbreviated journal title or look up abbreviations for cited works in the Journal Title Abbreviations list.

Be aware that there may be more than one abbreviation for a journal. Use truncation to match variations of several abbreviations for the same title. Join multiple journal titles with the search operator OR.

Note: When searching for cited conferences, include the title, location, date, and sponsor.

Enter Mark* Sci* to find titles of cited works published in Marketing Science.

Enter Geol* to find titles of cited works published in Geology, Geology Journal (abbreviated as Geol J) and other publications beginning with Geol.

Enter J Mech* Mat* Struct* to find titles of cited works published in J Mech Mat Struct, J Mech Mats Structs, J Mech Mater Struct, and so forth.

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Searching for Book Titles as Cited Works

Enter the first significant word or words from the title of the book. It is advisable to truncate because of variant spellings. Always truncate the last word in your search query using an asterisk (*) wildcard; otherwise, your search may return an incomplete list of results or no results. Keep in mind that titles of cited works may be in languages other than English.

Examples

Enter Medieval Boundaries* to find works and authors who cited Medieval Boundaries: Rethinking Difference in Old French Literature.

Enter Courtly Love Undressed* to find works and authors who cited Courtly Love Undressed: Reading Through Clothes in Medieval French Culture.

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Enter a four-digit year or a limited range of years. For optimal performance, limit the range to two or three years.

Search for a cited year only in combination with a search for a cited author and/or cited work.

Also, even if you know the cited year, try searching for references without specifying the cited year. Often, variations of the same cited reference—particularly references to books—will show different years.

Search for cited works by entering search terms in the following fields.

Cited Volume

Cited Issue

Cited Page

Cited page may include numbers (for example, C231 or 2832) or Roman numerals (for example, XVII). Always use the starting page of a publication. Do not use page ranges.

As a rule, you should avoid specifying the the cited volume, issue and pages in step 1 of a cited reference search. You want to be certain to retrieve all variations of the same reference. Generally, the name of the cited author and the abbreviated cited work are sufficient to perform step 1 successfully.

You may enter a full title, a partial title, or one or more individual terms from the title. Combine individual terms with search operators (AND, OR, NOT, NEAR). Use wildcards (* $ ?) to find variant spellings or both singular and plural forms of words.

For example, each of the following searches finds the reference to Troshkova, G.P. et al. 2001. Improvement of the Technique for Producing media for cell culturing on the basis of enzymatic hydrolysates of soy and rice flour. Biotechnology in Russia. 2006. Iss. 4. Pages 74-78.

Cited Title: Improvement of the Technique for Producing media for cell culturing on the basis of enzymatic hydrolysates of soy and rice flour

Cited Author: Troshkova G*

Cited Work: Biotechnology in Russia

Cited Title: enzymatic hydrolysates

Cited Author: Troshkova G*

Cited Work: Biotechnology in Russia