Please note: This resource is only available to current UTD students, staff and faculty.
Connect to the Web of Science database https://libproxy.utdallas.edu/login?url=http://www.isiknowledge.com/
You will be taken to the default Web of Science Basic Search:When searching by author, make sure that you change the dropdown option from Topic to Author.
Note: Web of Science defaults to the Core Collection search as seen in the top navigation bar:The Core Collection includes both journals and conference proceedings. Journal coverage extends back to 1900, depending on the discipline (e.g., Arts & Humanities or Social Sciences). Conference proceedings only go back to 1990.
If the user wishes to limit to a particular subject area or collection within the Core Collection, click on More Settings toward the bottom of the screen and select/deselect particular collections:
On the Citation Report page, displayed are a graph for the number of articles or items published by the author (left), a graph listing the number of times the author has been cited by year (center), and finally the h-index (right):
Beneath the graphs, the user may click checkboxes to remove any items from the Citation Report that have been erroneously added or adjust the publication date range and then recalculate the h-index:
The “?” beside the h-index score will direct the user to a description of how the h-index is calculated:
5. If the user wishes to build a list based on multiple versions of an author’s name or multiple authors, s/he can conduct multiple searches, each time using the Add to Marked List button between each search:
Once all citations are collected using the Add to Marked List feature, the user may click the Marked List button in the upper right corner of the screen to obtain a full list of all citations:
From the new page of results, scroll down the page and click on the Create Citation Report link to produce an h-index score based on all the items in the marked list: