SOC 337U Prejudice, Privilege & Power: Web of Science
Web of Science
- Web of ScienceMaintains citation searching for high impact research journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences, and sciences and includes emerging sources citation indexing from 2005.
Search Tips
- Quotation marks searches the database for those words together as a term
- An asterisk (*) searches the database for that word plus any variants of the root word.
- Use the OR search fields to search for synonyms
- Use the limits to filter for a particular source type
Tutorial
This tutorial will demonstrate fairly advanced searching in Web of Science. The most important thing to note is that you should search with synonymous or related terms with "OR".
About Web of Science
Web of Science includes three citation indices:
- Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)
- Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)
- Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI)
You can select to search only the SSCI from the main search page, under "more settings".
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