Those categories are based on the subject of the journal published in, not the article itself: Step 3 gives you the option to choose subject categories. Both 51 records of Rantapaa-Dahlqvist, S and 1 record of Rantapaa-Dahlqvist, SSRD is retrieved: But in this case Author Finder can’t find misspelled variants of the last name, just variants of first name initials. Here’s a screenshot of the first step in using Author Finder in Web of Science entering the last name and first initials Rantapaa-Dahlqvist, S.: This is a screenshot from Web of Science when searching Rantapaa in Author Index which I usually suggest to use to get more complete author searches: Let’s try my extreme author search example on Rantapaa-Dahlqvist, S. So let’s do some evaluations of these tools by using examples from my other Author-address search evaluations in Web of Science and Scopus. In this news flash Authors, Authors: Thomson Scientific and Elsevier Scopus Search Them Out by Barbara Quint at 24 July 2006 you can read more about these tools. Both tools are supposed to assist when there are lots of variants in author listings. Web of Science have launched Author Finder and Scopus has of course launched Author Identifier. These are options in development and will see in future what it can bring.Ĭonclusion: A better, faster overview, though same problems exist with lacking address/author information. It’s connected to content from the database BIOSIS and should not be used as an multidisciplinary subject search. Sometimes you can see an option for Concept Codes or Descriptors or Controlled Index. It’s built upon the subject categories of the journals where articles is published. Refining option Subject categories is not a subject search limit I recommend. Positive is you get a better overview of different spelled addresses for authors. Addresses are mixed together for all authors. You have to click the record to view it.Ģ) You will get all affiliations for all authors of all articles, not just for the author you searched or the first author name. When searching for Haglin L as author you get 11 hits and when clicking Institutions 8 alternative addresses:ġ) You won’t always see the name of the department in the overview, even if it’s in the record. There are several options for refining, for example institutions. Web of Science have introduced a feature called Refine your results which is displayed in top of each search.
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