Web of Science & InCites – Training tutorials

Video Library

Searching and Exporting from Web of Science

Duration: 16 minutes

Web of Science allows a user to search and explore millions of records indexed uniformly and comprehensively. This session will take you through basic search strategies, how to narrow and granulate a search and the various ways of exporting results for use in other platforms or projects.

Citation Reports and Analysing Results from Web of Science

Duration: 12 minutes

Web of Science allows a user to search and explore millions of records indexed uniformly and comprehensively. This session will take a viewer through how to produce a basic citation report on a topic, person or institution’s set of publications. It also explains how to analyse a set of results, enabling a user to get volume measures by one of our indexed fields or easily refine a search author, institution, source title and many more.

Developing a Researcher Profile

Duration: 15 minutes

Learn how to generate a researcher profile, either a Publons – Web of Science ResearcherID or an ORCiD. The learn how to populate one of these profiles with your publication, review, grant, educational or employment history.

Using a Researcher Profile

Duration: 24 minutes

Once your Publons – Web of Science ResearcherID or ORCiD has been created and populated with publication activity, learn how to use this identifier to save yourself time in extracting bibliometric impact measures around your careers body of work. This data can be useful in keeping on top of your network as well as when looking to show your influence on a promotional or grant application.


Beginner InCites

Duration: 21 minutes

The beginner InCites session provides new users to InCites an overview of the explorers and how to navigate them. It also is a good place to start to understand the scope of the types of analysis one can achieve in InCites. This session is a must for new users and anyone who wants a quick refresher on InCites and its use cases.


Using Metrics and Indicators Wisely

Duration: 19 minutes

This recording provides an overview of the many metrics that are used in the Web of Science and InCites. More importantly it provides some helpful tips on when is reasonable to be using a specific indictor, and when is not reasonable to be using a specific indicator.


Advanced InCites

Duration: 31 minutes

The advanced InCites session provides established InCites users with some more detailed analysis and methods of exploring our data that established users may not have thought about. It also details some of the intricate nuances in the data that become important when interpreting outputs in various bibliometric analyses.


Custom Analysis

Duration: 13 minutes

In many cases a user is limited to the types of analysis that can be performed in InCites by the filters available to them in the filter bar. Watch this recording to understand how to produce custom datasets to analyse in InCites on any given set of publications. This enables the set of publications within any given analysis to be as unique as a user may want.