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Web of Knowledge analytical tool

Essential Science Indicators This link opens in a new window
Identify hot and highly cited papers, most cited researchers and/or institutions. Discover who might make a good employer, potential collaborators, and emerging research that could impact your work.

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Hot Papers - papers that receive a large number of citations soon after publication, relative to other papers in the same field and age. More precisely, they are papers published in the past two years that received a number of citations in the most recent two-month period that places them in the top 0.1% of papers in the same field.

Highly Cited Papers - Minimum number of citations received by the top 1% of papers in the research field published in the specified year.

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For more information about fully utilizing the Web of Knowledge/Web of Science, check out Mason Libraries InfoGuide: Cited Reference Searching: Web of Knowledge.

Web of Science: Core Collection This link opens in a new window Contains citations and searchable author abstracts, covering scholarly literature in journals, books and conference proceedings. Includes: Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Book Citation Index, Conference Proceedings Citation Index, Current Chemical Reactions, Index Chemicus, and Emerging Sources Citation Index. Additional resources available by selecting from the dropdown list next to the Core Collection heading. Tutorial for the Web of Science: Core Collection database.