Web of Science

Who is citing whom? Use this database to identify article inter-connectedness based on references and citations.

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Web of Science contents

The scope of Web of Science is very extensive and includes the social and natural sciences as well as the humanities, with an over-representation of social science articles. References are pulled from a variety of publications, most notably journal articles, but also from conference proceedings and books. Database features include tools to analyse literature inter-connectedness.

Web of Science consists of a number of citation databases:
You can search the databases one at a time or together.

Social Science Citation Index (more than 2600 social science journals from 55 disciplines from 1900-)
Science Citation Index (more than 3700 science and technical journals from 100 disciplines from 1956-)
Arts & Humanities Citation Index (more than 1390 arts and humanities journals from 1975-).

Also access to Conference Proceedings Citation Index, a database of conference proceedings from 1990 - present.

Hints from the librarian

Limit your search to one or more citation databases. Notice the years covered by the individual database.
Use ”” (inverted commas) to search for a phrase, e.g. ”knowledge management”.
Use * (asterisk) to search the stem of a word, e.g. touri* will retrieve tourism, tourist, tourists.

The reference management tool Endnote Basic (free version) is available from the Web of Science homepage.