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Results

This page displays the results of your search in an abbreviated record format. The left-hand column of the page contains the search statement that retrieved the results along with the number of results that the search retrieved. Click the More link to view the selected time span and any selected data restrictions such as document types and languages.

All bibliographic records that appear on the Results page are source records. Source records are from items (journals, books, conferences, and patents) that we have indexed in a product. Every source record has a Full Record that you can access. Moreover, you can add every source record to your Marked List.

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Managing Links

For information about managing links, go to Managing Links.

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Open access status is provided across the Web of Science platform as a result of a partnership with Impactstory, a not-for-profit organization that recently launched a knowledgebase of Open Access (OA) content. This knowledgebase makes it possible to discover and link to legal Gold or Bronze (free content at a publisher's website) and Green (e.g., author self-archived in a repository) OA versions. This partnership improves discoverability and access to article-level OA versions not only by adding more links to OA content, but also by prioritizing the links to the best version of OA content when multiple versions of an article are available. Always consult the copyright owner for any re-use or licensing requests. You can learn more about OA on Web of Science at http://info.clarivate.com/openaccess.

The OA status of a document can be one of the following:

OA Type	Descriptions
Gold	DOAJ	Articles published in journals listed on the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). To be listed on the DOAJ, all articles in these journals must have a license in accordance with the Budapest Open Access Initiative. Please consult DOAJ for their specific definitions. Consult the copyright owner for any reuse or licensing requests.
Gold	Other	Other Gold open access articles are those identified as having a Creative Commons (CC) license by Impactstory’s Unpaywall Database but are not in journals listed on the DOAJ. Most of these articles are from hybrid journals. Hybrid open access journals are subscription journals that include some open access articles. Keep in mind, identification of Other Gold as an indicator of Hybrid Gold open access articles is at varying levels of completeness, especially for newly published items. Consult the copyright owner for any reuse or licensing requests.
Bronze	The licensing for these articles is either unclear or identified by Impactstory’s Unpaywall Database as non-CC license articles. These are free-to-read or Public Access articles located on a publisher’s site. A publisher may, as a promotion, grant free access to an article for a limited time. At the end of the promotional period, access to the article may require a fee which can lead to temporary errors in our data. Keep in mind, you may find content that is incomplete, especially new content. Consult the copyright owner for any reuse or licensing requests.
Green	Published	Final published versions of articles hosted on an institutional or subject-based repository (e.g. an article out of its embargo period posted to PubMed Central). Consult the copyright owner for any reuse or licensing requests.
	Accepted	Accepted manuscripts hosted on a repository. Content is peer reviewed and final, but may not have been through the publisher’s copyediting or typesetting. Consult the copyright owner for any reuse or licensing requests.

On a results summary page, there is only a link to the best available free copy. If there is more than one free version available, links to other versions only appear in the Full Text Options menu on the record page for that article. When available, the final version of record at the publisher website is always preferred, followed by the final published version at a repository, and then by the accepted version at a repository. Links are always labeled with the version and whether they point to a publisher or repository.

The following OA values are available as part of the export of the full record

DOAJ Gold
Other Gold
Bronze
Green Published
Green Accepted

Refining Results for Open Access

The Web of Science Refine Results panel offers two methods to filter a set of search results to show only Open Access content:

Using the Open Access filter in the primary Filter Results by panel near the top-left of the Search Results Summary page limits search results to all items identified as Open Access of any type.
The Refine Results panel on the left allows users to refine by open access type:

DOAJ Gold
Other Gold
Bronze
Green Published
Green Accepted

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Web of Science Records

Only records in your product subscription will appear in the results set. For example, if you have a subscription to Web of Science Core Collection, then you will see records from this product. However, you will not see records from other products such as BIOSIS Citation Index.

In general, a source record that appears in more than one product database will only appear once on the Results page. However, you may see duplicate records for the same source item if the record has:

An anonymous author
A different first author
A patent number whose format varies from product to product

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All Databases Full Records

Click the title link of any record to view the Full Record. At the top of the Full Record page, the system will identify the product from where the record originates. For example:

Record from Web of Science Core Collection

If your institution subscribes to multiple products, such as Web of Science Core and BIOSIS Citation Index, then the name of the product that has precedence within your subscription service will appear at the top of the Full Record.

However, you can view the article of the same title in another database if you have a subscription to the database. Go to the Additional Information section in the right-hand column, and then click the product's link. In many instances, you may find different field information in that product.

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What is a One-Click Search?

For linked names and terms that appear in a Full Record, click the link to retrieve all records in the product (within the selected timespan) that contain the selected author or term. The new set of results is automatically added to your Search History.

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Refine Results Panel

Select one or more checkboxes to limit results to records that match the selected criteria. For example, if you select a publication year and a research area, a subset of results displays records published in the specified year and belonging to the selected research area.
All search criteria except ESI Top Papers and Open Access are bibliographic record fields. For example, Countries/Regions refers to countries or regions in author addresses, and not to countries or regions where research studies were conducted.
All refine searches are added to the Search History table along with the results of your initial search from the Search page.

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More Options / Values

Select the More Options/Values link within a category to display the first 100 items in that category.
You can further refine the results, exclude specific records, or sort records by record count or in alphabetical order.

To refine specific results, select the check box of each item on the list, and then select Refine to view only those results.
To exclude specific records, select the checkbox for each item on the list, and then select Exclude to remove those records from the results.

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You can further refine the results, exclude specific records, or sort records by record count or in alphabetical order.

To refine specific results, select the check box of each item on the list, and then click the Refine button to view only those results.
To exclude specific records, select the check box of each item on the list, and then click the Exclude button to remove those records from the results.

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Research Domains (Scope Notes)

For more information about the research domains in the Refine Results feature, see our list of scope notes.

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Search Within Results For

To filter or reduce results on the Results page, enter a Topic query in the Search within Results text box, and then click Search. This search returns only those records in the original set that contain the topic term(s) you enter. The search terms may appear in any order within a retrieved record.

To search for an exact phrase within the results, enclose the phrase in quotation marks.

All searches are added to the Search History table.

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Create Citation Report

This function is available to customers who subscribe to one or more of the following products:

All Databases
Arabic Citation Index
Web of Science Core Collection
BIOSIS Citation Index
Chinese Science Citation Database
Russian Science Citation Index
SciELO Citation Index

The Create Citation Report link takes you to the Citation Report page where you can view aggregate citation statistics for the current set of records.

Note that the link does not display for searches that contain more than 10,000 records.

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Why are English-language Records Retrieved when I Search in Chinese?

Sometimes an English record will appear on the Results page after you perform an All Databases search and your query is in Chinese. This occurs because the English record comes from a product database that has a higher precedence than the same record from the Chinese Science Citation Database.

For example, you perform an All Databases search entering Chinese characters for the journal title. The search returns an English record from Web of Science Core Collection instead of retrieving the same record from the CSCD database. Why? Because the record from Web of Science Core has a higher precedence than the record from the Chinese Science Citation Database.

If you wish to view the same record from the Chinese Science Citation Database:

Click the title of record that appears in the Results list to go to the Full Record page.
Click the View Citation Data link that appears in the right-hand column under the "View this record in other databases" heading.
The product takes you from the Full Record in Web of Science Core to the same record in the Chinese Science Citation Database where you can view the record in both Chinese and English.

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Times Cited

Displays the total number of times a published work was cited by other works.

Click the link to go to a Citing Articles page to view a Times Cited Counts table that shows the number of times the record has been cited from each of the citation indexes in Web of Science.

Remember that access to records is limited to your institution's subscription.

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Output Records

Options to output records are available from the Results, Full Record, and Marked List pages.

Select each record to include in the output.
Select the data to view in the record output.
Select an output option:

Print
E-mail
Save to Endnote online
Save to EndNote desktop
Claim on Publons - Track Citations
Save to FECYT CVN
Save to InCites
Save to Other File Formats
Save to RefWorks

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Add to Marked List

Add records to your Marked List where you can later print, save, e-mail, order, or export from the Marked List page.

Select each record that you want to add to your Marked List.
Click the Add to Marked List button.
Click the Marked List link in the menu bar at the top of the page to go to the Marked List page.

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Creating Customized Citation Reports

You can create a customized Citation Report by adding records to your Marked List from the Results and Full Record pages. From the Marked List page, click the Create Citation Report link to go to the Citation Report page where you can view aggregate citation statistics for the current set of marked records.

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Sort Options

There are a variety of ways in which you can sort and view the results of your search from the Results page. Go to the Sort By menu to select another sort option.

Want to know more?

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About Sort Options

Records are normally sorted by Publication Date -- Newest to Oldest, the default sort. However, you can always change a sort option.

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EN Icon

A red EN icon indicates the record has been saved to your EndNote online library. Click the icon to go to your library.

This icon only appears if you have signed in and if the record is already in your EndNote library.

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About Document Types

The All Databases function allows you to refine your results by Document Types. To view a list of comman document types, click this Documents Types.