AND |
To find records containing all terms [Example: blood pressure AND stroke] |
OR | To find records containing any of the terms [Example: myocardial infarction OR heart attack] |
NOT | Exclude records containing certain words in your search [Example: cardiovascular disease NOT heart attack] |
NEAR | To find records containing all terms within a certain number (n) of each other [Example: stress NEAR/3 sleep] |
SAME |
Search terms that must occur within the same sentence [Example: Tufts SAME Boston, biodivers* same conserv*] |
Truncation and wildcard characters are used for more control in retrieving plurals and different spellings.
* |
To retrieve words with variant zero to many characters [Example: disease* will include diseases, diseased, diseasing, diseasedness etc.] |
? | To retrieve words words with the replacement of 1 character [Example: wom?n includes women, woman] |
$ | Retrieves zero or one character [Example: disease$ includes only diseased, diseases ] |
" " |
To search exact phrases [Example: " strict dietary restrictions "] |
WIth your search terms, field notations and the Boolean, Wildcard and Truncation commands, you can structure a query that is easily replicable and editable. This is the beauty of Advanced Searching--greater control, that hopefully results in stronger searches.
Here are some pointers of the Advanced Search features in Web of Science:
AD= Address | OO= Organization |
AI= Author Identifiers | PS= Province/State |
AU= Author | PY= Year Published |
CF= Conference | SA= Street Address |
CI= City | SG= Suborganization |
DO=DOI (Document Object Identifier) | SO= Publication Name |
ED= Editor | SU= Research Area |
FG= Grant Number | TI= Title |
FO= Funding Agency | TS= Topic |
FT= Funding Text | UT= Accession Number |
GP= Group Author | WC= Web of Science Category |
IS= ISSN/ISBN | ZP=Zip/ Postal Code |
OG= Organization- Enhanced |
Using some field tags and operators, let's try constructing a search:
Let's try retrieving records with the name of a specific organization, let's say Tufts University, for documents about biodiversity conservation efforts.
OG= (Tufts University) AND TS= (biodivers* "and" conserv*)
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