PBRF relief! - New and Improved Author Searching and Citation Reports on Web of Science

Major New Features Available

Improved Author Searching: Author Finder

Web of Science now has improved the options available for searching authors - especially those with common names. Clicking the Author Finder link gives you the option of allowing for:

• variant name entries
• multiple names (for example, a person's maiden name and married name)
• subject area of the author
  
• institutional affiliation(s)

In addition to this, instead of only using first name initials, Web of Science will from now on be indexing names as they appear in publications in a bid to simplify the identification of authors.


Citation Reports for Search Results

Now you can create your citation portfolio for PBRF with ease! This new feature is ideal for creating a report of an individual author's papers and their citations. (However, you can also create a citation report for any search set result.) It produces graphs of papers published and cited each year, as well as citation counts and average citation rates for individual papers. You can also remove self-citations at a click.

The Citation Report option is available in the box of options on the right of any search results list.

A dynamic illustration of how to do a citation report for an individual is available online at:
http://www.brainshark.com/thomsonscientific/citrept
(Duration: 5mins40sec)


Also New: Further Online Training for Web of Science

A range of other animated tutorials for Web of Science are now available:
http://scientific.thomson.com/support/recordedtraining/wos/