The MSKCC Library provides access to two citation databases, Science Citation Index and Social Sciences Index, through our Web of Science subscription.

The Search Tips for Web of Science tutorial which is under 10 minutes long, demonstrates useful details for searching the databases.  Included is discussion of truncation and proximity operators and specific examples are offered.

The SciVerse Scopus database has made a tool available which provides graphics and table displays of your search results.  You can display 7 metrics which will help you better understand your results: Year, Source Title, Author Name, Affiliation Name, Country, Document Type and Subject Area.

The tutorial (4.44 mins) shows you where to find the tool on the search results page and demonstrates what the metrics look like.

A new feature will soon be added to the PubMed database.  It will be a “Results by year” timeline which will be displayed when 10,000 or more citations are retrieved. Continue reading →