Web of Science is one of the most comprehensive citation index covering the leading scholarly literature. The Library has subscribed to the Core Collection which includes:
By default, you will search the Web of Science Core Collection for all years. If you need to change the setting, click to expand the More Settings section.
Field Name | Search | Search Tips and Examples |
Topic | Words/Phrases appear in article titles, abstracts or keyword lists | -Use quotation marks to look for an exact phrase, e.g., "global warming" |
Title | Words/Phrases appear in article titles | Enter title word(s)/phrase(s), e.g., "soil drainage" |
Author | Author names or editor names | Enter last name first and followed by a space and up to five initials - Use * [asterisk] if not sure of the initials, e.g., Herlert A* - Use Author Finder to distinguish one author from another by field of research and/or institution |
Group Author | Organizations or institutions credited with authorship | -Click the Group Author Index icon ![]() |
Publication Name | Series and journal titles | Enter full or partial publication name, e.g., Journal of Manage* -Use Publication Name Index ![]() |
Year Published | Records published in a particular year | Enter a four-digit year or a range of years, e.g., 2002-2007 |
Address | Author affiliations and addresses | Enter the institution and/or the department and/or place name (abbreviated words or phrases) from an author's address, e.g., Hong Kong Univ* Sci* Technol* and Biol* |
Funding Agency | Funding acknowledgment table | Enter the name of a funding agency, e.g., National Agency for the Promotion of Science and Technology |
Grant Number | Grant number field in Funding acknowledgement table | Enter a partial of full grant number, both right- and left-hand truncation using wildcards is allowed |
ResearcherID | ResearcherID field | Enter the ResearcherID number |
Conference | Conference title, date, location and sponsor | Enter the conference name, location and year, use 'AND' to connect the words, e.g Fiber Optics AND India AND 2000 |
Click Add Another Field link to include more search fields in your search.
Symbol | Meaning | Examples |
* [asterisk] | zero to many characters | enzym* will find records containing enzyme, enzymes, enzymatic, enzymic |
? [question mark] | single character | wom?n will match woman and women |
$ [dollar sign] | zero or one character | flavo$r finds flavor and flavour |
Both right- and left-hand truncation can be used.
Operator | Meaning |
AND | find records including both terms |
OR | find records containing either one or both terms |
NOT | retrieve records with the first but not the second term |
SAME | retrieve records with two terms appearing in the same sentence |
NEAR/x | find records containing search terms that are within number of words of each other, x should be numeric value |