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Lecture 16: Science Citation Index, Web of Science
Quiz Questions

Note: Check ALL correct answers to each question. There may be more than one correct answer.

Question 1: Web of Science has been described as "not the first place to go for any search, but the second place to go for almost every search". Which of the following are logical reasons to support that?

  1. _____ Its chronological coverage is very shallow.
  2. _____ Its subject coverage is very broad; excellent for interdisciplinary topics.
  3. _____ It has detailed subject indexing.
  4. _____ It covers only the top journals in each field.
  5. _____ Its citation indexing features make it powerful for building a search from one or more good references.

Question 2: Both SciFinder and Web of Science have cited reference data. Which of the following statements are true?

  1. _____ Both databases provide links from the cited references to their document records (if they were themselves indexed by the database.)
  2. _____ Web of Science provides cited reference information for every record in the database (where available), whereas SciFinder only does so for recent (post-1997) records.
  3. _____ Both databases let you collect the cited references from a whole set of records at once.
  4. _____ Only SciFinder Scholar lets you perform "Related Record" searches.
  5. _____ Only SciFinder Scholar has cited references from patent records.
  6. _____ Only Web of Science lets you search directly by cited reference.

Question 3: Web of Science has a two step process for searching by cited references. Which of the following are advantages of this approach?

  1. _____ You can pick up citations where the original document misspelled the cited author's name.
  2. _____ You can pick up citations where the original document made a mistake in the source name, volume, page or year.
  3. _____ You can quickly search for all the papers which cite a prolific author.
  4. _____ Web of Science cross-references to articles in which the cited author is the second, third or subsequent author listed.
Question 4: If you wanted to retrieve only review articles on your topic, which of the following would work?
  1. _____ Select Document Type as a search field on the Search screen, then use "review" as a search term.
  2. _____ Add the keyword "review" to your Topic search.
  3. _____ Go to Advanced Search and add "and SO=review" to your other search terms.
  4. _____ Do your search, then from the Results List page, Refine by Document Type, and select Review.
  5. _____ Do your search, then Analyze by Document Type, and select Review.
Question 5: You have performed a topic search in Web of Science, and found a particularly relevant article. Which of the following might help you find more recent articles on the same topic?
  1. _____ Click the Cited By link for that article.
  2. _____ Click the Cited References link for that article.
  3. _____ Click the Find Related Records link for that article.
  4. _____ Do a Citation Analysis on the answer set and select the year with the highest number of publications.

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