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Full Record Page

The Full Record page displays information contained in the ISI database about an article, with search terms highlighted. For example, if a record was located by entering MAD COW DISEASE in the Topic field on the General Search page, this phrase will be highlighted wherever it appears in the record.

Information Available in Full Record

Note that the ISI database does not contain the complete text of the article. Instead it contains a summary record for each article that includes some or all of the following fields, depending on the database you have selected.

Article title, source title, ISSN, volume, issue, publication date, page range, publisher, publisher's address, publisher's World Wide Web address, complete list of authors, authors' addresses, reprint address, document type, language, references, abstract, author-provided keyword list, additional keyword list (KeyWords Plus®), and ISI document delivery number.

Because the Web of Science supports links, the full record may contain additional buttons at the top-right of the page. If your institution subscribes to electronic journals there may be full text links. Links to other ISI products or an OPAC can also be present. See the ISI Web site for more information about ISI Links.

Use the options on this page to:

  • Mark the record to print, export, or order the full text of the document.
  • Unmark the record. Note: To clear all marked records and begin a new search session, click the "Home" button, then "New Session."
  • Display the works listed in this article's cited reference list.
  • Display a list of articles that have cited this work in their reference lists.
  • Search for other articles whose cited reference lists include some of the same works as this article's reference list.
  • Navigate through the search results list.
To mark the record for printing, exporting, or ordering
Click Mark. Then click Marked List to display the print, export, and order options.
Note that using your web browser's print option to print the Full Record page will also generate a printed copy of the record; however, this copy will also contain all the graphics and other interface items that display on the page.
To unmark the record, removing it from your marked list
Click Unmark. Note that the Unmark button displays only if the record has already been marked. Note: To clear all marked records and begin a new search session, click the "Home" button, then "New Session."
To display the works listed in this article's cited reference list
Click Cited References. If the number zero or NK (for Not Keyed) displays beside the Cited References link, the link will not be active because the article either has no references or the references were not keyed into the database (as is the case with articles that are themselves bibliographies).
To display a list of other articles that have cited this article
Click Times Cited to open the Citing Articles page. If the number zero displays beside the Times Cited link, no articles covered in the currently loaded databases cite this article, and the link will not be active.
To search for other articles whose cited reference lists include at least one of the same sources as this article
Click Related Records.
To navigate through the search results list
Click Next or Previous to move to the next or previous record in the list. Click Summary to return to the summary list.


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Cited References Page

The Cited References page displays the cited reference list of the article whose name appears at the top of the page. References are underlined if a record for the source exists in the currently loaded ISI databases.

To return to the original full record
Click the Search Results button on the button bar, click the article title at the top of the page.
To display the full record of an underlined reference
Click the underlined item.
To print this list of cited references
Use the print option of your Web browser.
To search for articles whose reference lists include some or all of the items in this list
Review the list, clearing the checkbox to the left of an item if you do not want to search for articles that cite the item. Then click Related Records.


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Citing Articles (Times Cited) Summary Page

The Citing Articles Summary page displays a list of articles whose reference lists include the article named at the top of the page. All items on the summary list are underlined, since a full record for each article exists in the ISI database.

To return to the original full record
Click the Search Results button on the button bar, click the article title at the top of the page.
To display the full record of an underlined article
Click the underlined item.

Cited reference searching enables you to locate information on a given topic by using a representative or seminal work on the topic to search for other works on the same topic. The assumption is that articles that cite this seminal work must be related to it in subject matter.

You can also use cited reference searching to:

  • Discover who is citing your research.
  • Measure the influence of a colleague's or competitor's work.
  • Follow the direction of research based on an earlier study.


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Related Records Summary Page

The Related Records page displays a list of articles whose cited reference lists include at least one of the sources cited by the original (parent) article, whose title appears at the top of the page. Articles that share the largest number of sources with the original article are listed first.

The assumption behind related record searching is that articles whose reference lists include some of the same sources have a subject relationship, regardless of whether their titles, abstracts, or keywords contain the same terms. The more sources two articles have in common, the closer this subject relationship is presumed to be. Related Records are sorted from most relevant to least relevant.

You can access Related Records from either the Full Record or Cited References pages.

To return to the original full record
Click the Search Results button on the button bar.
To navigate through this list
Click the navigation arrows or the page numbers to move through the data. Note that any marked records will be automatically submitted to the Marked List.
To print this list
Use the print option of your web browser.
To view individual records in the list
Click any item in the list.
To add individual records to your marked list
Click the checkbox to the left of the author name to select each article. Click Submit Marks. (Note: The Marked List button appears in the toolbar after marking records and clicking Submit Marks or after clicking Mark Page or Mark All.)
To mark or unmark all 10 items on the page
Click Mark Page. All the records on the page will be marked and the Mark Page button will become Unmark Page. (Note: To clear the entire Marked List click Clear Marked List on the Marked List page or start a New Session.)
To mark all items in the Related Records summary list
Click Mark All. All the records displayed in the summary list (on all pages) will be marked (up to the maximum allowed). If the number of marked records exceeds the limit allowed, a message will display. (Note: To clear the entire Marked List click Clear Marked List on the Marked List page or start a New Session.)
 
To print, export, or order individual records in the list
  1. Click the checkbox to the left of the author name to select an article.
  2. Submit your selection(s) by clicking either Submit or the navigation arrows.
  3. Click Marked List and follow the instructions on the Marked Record page.
To return to the full record of the parent article
Click the article title at the top of the page.

Here's an example of how to use Related Records:

  • Assume your General Search on the topic honey bees has located a record for an article by C Dreller entitled "The sense of hearing in honey-bees."
  • When you click on this record on the General Search Results Summary page, you find by reading the abstract that the article contains exactly the information you were looking for.
  • You click Cited References to look at the article's cited reference list.
  • All 30 references look relevant to your work, so you leave all the items checked (the default), and click Related Records.
  • The Related Records Summary page displays a list of articles whose reference lists include at least one of the items cited by the original article. Some of these articles are familiar to you because they showed up in your initial General Search. But some of the articles are new to you.
  • You click on the first new article in this list to look at the full record, and then click Cited References to display its reference list, which turns out to contain many of the same items as your original article. Chances are good that this article is also relevant to your research, but because neither its title, abstract, nor keyword list contained the term honey bees, you did not find the article in your original topic search.
  • You mark this record for printing and continue to look at the other new articles on the list. As you move down the list, the articles have fewer and fewer references in common with your original article and are therefore less relevant to your work.


Documentation version 4.3
This help page last modified 11/6/2000

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