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Advanced Search Field Tags

Field tags enable you to search data fields within a record.

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AD=Address

Searches for institution and/or place names in the Addresses field.

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AI=Author Identifiers

Searches for Web of Science ResearcherID numbers and ORCID identifiers in the Author Identifiers table within a record.

Enter a unique Web of Science ResearcherID number or ORCID identifier with the AI field tag.

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AU=Author

Searches for author names of journal articles and books in the Author(s) field and the Corporate Author(s) field.

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Last names containing a space should be searched with and without the space to ensure that all relevant records are returned. For example:

• AU=(De Marco* OR DeMarco*)
• AU=(Van Hecke T* OR Vanhecke T*)

See also Guidelines for Searching Names.

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BN=Biblio Note

Searches the Notes field within a record for miscellaneous bibliographic information relating to the source document. The Notes field may also contain information concerning the Language(s) or Summary Language(s) in which the source document was written.

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BT=Broad Terms

Searches for broader terms in the Broad Terms field within a record; generally from the hierarchical subject thesaurus. See our description of this field in the Full Record.

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DE=Descriptors

Searches the Descriptors Data table within a record. See our description of this field in the Full Record.

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ED=Editor

Searches for editor names in the Editor(s) field within a record. For example:

See also Guidelines for Searching Names

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GP=Group Author

Searches the Group Author(s) and Book Group Author(s) fields within of a record.

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IC=Identifying Codes

Searches for codes in the following fields within a record.

• Accession Number
• ISSN
• ISBN

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IS=ISSN

Searches the ISSN field within a record.

The ISSN (International Standard Serial Number) searches for periodical publications such as journals and electronic publications. If a journal has both a print ISSN and an electronic ISSN, then both display in the Full Record. The format is four numbers, a hyphen (-), three numbers, and then a check character that may be a number or X.

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IS=ISBN

Searches the ISBN field within a record.

The ISBN (International Standard Book Number) searches for books. It is a unique machine-readable identifier that marks a book unmistakably. The format is a 10-digit number that contains 3 hyphens (-). The last digit is a check character, which may be a number or an X. The position of the hyphens can vary for each ISBN identifier.

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PMID=PubMed ID

Searches the PubMed ID field within a record.

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PU=Publisher

Searches for the publisher name and publisher address in the Publisher field within a record.

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PY=Year Published

Searches the Source Published field within a record. You must combine this field tag with another field tag using the AND or NOT Boolean operator.

Example: TS=cell growth AND PY=2007

When entering a range of years, restrict your search to five years or less; otherwise, processing slows down and the product returns too many unproductive results.

Example: TS=cell growth AND PY=(2008-2010)

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SD=Subject Descriptors

Searches the following fields and tables within a record.

• Broad Terms
• Descriptors Data
       Descriptor Organism 
       Descriptor Controlled Term
       Descriptor Subset, 
       Descriptor Modifie
• Super Taxa
• Systematics
       Organism Classifier
       Organism Name 
       Organism Author Date 
       Systematics Controlled Term 
       Systematics Modifier 
       Organism Role 
       Fossil Indicator 
       Organism Detai
• Taxa Notes

Searching by Subject Descriptors (SD) will retrieve everything that a search by Descriptors (DE) will retrieve. However, the converse is not true. Subject Descriptors is a more inclusive field.

See our description of these fields and tables in the Full Record.

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SO=Publication Name

Searches for publication names in the Source field within a record. The product retrieves books titles and journal titles.

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ST=Super Taxa

Searches the Super Taxa field within a record. See our description of this field in the Full Record.

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SU=Research Area

Searches the Research Areas field.

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SY=Systematics / Organism

Searches the Systematics Data table within a record. Search includes the following categories within the table.

• Organism Classifier
• Organism Name
• Organism Author Date
• Systematics Controlled Term
• Systematics Modifier
• Organism Role
• Fossil Indicator
• Organism Detail

See our description of these fields and tables in the Full Record.

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TA=Taxa Notes

Searches the Taxa Notes field within a record. See our description of this field in the Full Record.

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TI=Title

Searches the Title field within a record.

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TS=Topic

Searches for topic terms within the following fields and tables within a record.

• Title
• Book Title
• Abstract
• Broad Terms
• Descriptors Data
       Descriptor Organism 
       Descriptor Controlled Term
       Descriptor Subset, 
       Descriptor Modifier
• Super Taxa
• Systematics Data
       Organism Classifier
       Organism Name 
       Organism Author Date 
       Systematics Controlled Term 
       Systematics Modifier 
       Organism Role 
       Fossil Indicator 
       Organism Detail
• Taxa Notes

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UT=Accession Number

Searches the Accession Number field within a record. The accession number is a unique identifying number associated with each record in the product. It consists of a product identification code, a product year, and an item number.

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Field Tags

• AD=Address
• AI=Author Identifiers
• AU=Author
• BN=Biblio Note
• BT=Broad Terms
• DE=Descriptors
• ED=Editor
• GP=Group Author
• IC=Identifying Codes
• IS=ISSN/ISBN
• PMID=PubMed ID
• PU=Publisher
• PY=Year Published
• SD=Subject Descriptors
• SO=Publication Name
• ST=Super Taxa
• SU=Research Area
• SY=Systematics
• SY=Organism
• TI=Title
• TN=Taxa Notes
• TS=Topic
• UT=Accession Number

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See also Advanced Search Examples