Web of Science has the world’s leading scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. The database includes proceedings of international conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions. Click this link to access Web of Science.

In the search box, type in your keyword search terms. Then, you can sort the results using the following options:

Citations

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

Usage

The Usage is a measure of the level of interest in a specific item on the Web of Science platform. The count reflects the number of times the article has met a user’s information needs.

Relevance

Relevance sorts records in descending order based on a ranking system that considers how many of the search terms are found in each record. Relevance ordering for source records takes into account the following fields-Title, Abstract, Keywords, and Keywords Plus.

Click the number next to Times Cited to view all the other articles that cited this particular article. Click Full Text from Publisher to retrieve the full-text article from the publisher’s site, or Find It to retrieve the article from U of I Library’s catalog.

Citation Chaining

Citation chaining is a research technique in which you use one source to find related documents.

There are two types of citation chaining:

• Forward Chaining - Starting with one work and looking at the works that have cited the current work as a reference.
• Backward Chaining - Looking at what documents the current work cites and then following those backward by looking at the documents they cite.

In a Web of Science record, you can click Citations for forward chaining and References for backward chaining.