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Searching the Accession Number Field

The accession number is a unique identifying number associated with each record in the product. It consists of an accession number (a product identification code) and a sequence number.

Always join multiple numbers by the OR Boolean operator. Do not use AND, NOT, NEAR, and SAME when searching for accession numbers: the  product will return an error message.

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Enter a unique accession number to find a specific record. For example, WOS:000301236900016 finds the record that is associated with this unique accession number.

Enter a partial accession number and include an asterisk (*) wildcard at the end. For example, WOS:0003012369* finds all records that begin with this accession number (the example does not include the sequence number), such as:

• WOS:000301236900001
• WOS:000301236900002
• WOS:000301236900003
• And so on ...

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Enter a partial accession number and include both left-hand and right-hand truncation. For example, *12369* finds all records that contains these numbers in the accession number.

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Search Examples

• WOS:000285030300005 finds the record that is associated with this unique accession number.

• WOS:0002850303* finds all records that begin with these characters in the accession number. Note that this example does not include the sequence number.

• WOS:000075806100061 OR WOS:A1977DL33400271 finds these two unique records.