Clarivate Analytics Resources and Tools: Web of Science
The purpose of this guide is to supplement the UWM Libraries' Fall Into Research sessions.
UWM Libraries Access
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Web of ScienceWeb of Science includes Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index and much more. It indexes over 18,000 journals and 180,000 conference proceedings with the strongest coverage in the sciences (over 8,800 journals), followed by social sciences (over 3,200 journals), and arts and humanities (over 1,700 journals). Our Web of Science subscription includes articles published from 1987 to the present; updated weekly.
Features of Web of Science
- Citation indexing
- Setting up search alerts to stay up to date on a topic
- Create citation alerts to monitor citation activity around a key paper
- Finding an author’s work
- Identifying experts and potential collaborators
- Identifying key players and centers of excellence in a research area
- Discover sources of funding in your field
- Link to relevant research data sets, data studies, and software on external repositories
