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Web of Science

Web of science is a collection of multidisciplinary databases and so useful for most researchers. this guide will show you how to use it to find the information you are looking for.

Analyze Results

Wanting to know the most prevalent authors in a particular field of study or generate a list of institutions ranked by record count based on your search query? Analyze Results will group and rank records in a results set by extracting data values from a variety of fields. Click on the Analyze Results button at the top of a results page and it will take you through to a new page to choose what data you would like to know. 

Screengrab from a Web of Science search for 'ethical stocks and shares.' It got 79 results. There is an arrow pointing to the 'analyse results' button which is the 1st of 3 buttons to the top right of the results. (The others are 'citation report' and 'create report.')

 

Click on Web of Science categories to choose the field you want to analyse. You can click on the drop down menu to choose options such as Publication Year, Document Type, Researcher Profiles, Publication Titles, Conference Titles and Funding Agencies. 

The default visualisation of the data is TreeMap Chart but you can alter this to a bar chart. You can choose to sort the results by Results Count or Alphabetically. The page will automatically compare 25 values but you can choose different numbers up to 500. To be listed in the results table and the visualization, a value must appear a given number of times in the set. For example, if you select Author and set a minimum record count to 4, then an author's name is included in the results table if it appears in four or more records.

Screenshot of the Analyse Results page. Top left is a purple box that says 'web of science categories.' This is what you would click to choose the type of data that you want to analyse. Below this button is a grey row with the options of sort by, show (the number of values) and minimum record count. Below this you can choose the type of visualisation (treemap or bar chart) and the number of results.