Improved Author Searching - Web of Science

January 29, 2007 on 9:21 pm | In Database News |

This quarter’s Web of Science update includes a new discovery tool for author searching.

Author Sets is a new feature that helps to identify articles you want when multiple authors share the same name and initials. Once you run an Author Search, you’ll see a yellow box above your results: View Author Sets for (author name).

ISI then uses its own algorithms to create clusters of articles by author, using citation data like journal titles to sort the articles by the most likely author. You can then view each author cluster. ISI has also provided a feedback form where you can sign in provide general or detailed information to help them improve the clustering feature. Authors can also use the feedback form to identify citations that are missing or incorrectly included in their author cluster.

This feature should be used as a tool to focus your search rather than as a definitive list of a specific author’s works.