OME Fellows: Medical Education Research Guide

Resources for searching for topics relevant to medical education

About Web of Science

The original citation index - easily tracks citations and is useful for faculty to track their work.

Quotation Marks - works with "phrases in quotes."

Searches multiple indices - Example: search MEDLINE and Web of Science Core Collection simultaneously.

Truncation - OK to use in Web of Science as there is no controlled vocabulary.

Advantages

Limitations

Ability to search cross-discipline 

Ability to search MEDLINE

Able to handle phrase searching

Works seamlessly with EndNote

Misses articles not indexed in MEDLINE

Searches may retrieve too many results

 

Web of Science: Search Tools

Save Searches and create alerts: Receive email alerts to any saved query and get notified when selected articles are cited.

EndNote: Save citations to your EndNote desktop or online account directly when using the Firefox browser.

ReseacherID: Create an ID to disambiguate your work from someone else's. Create an ORCID (Open Researcher & Contributor ID) account when registering for ResearcherID. More on author identifiers here.

Journal Citation Reports


Introduction to Journal Citation Reports from 
Health Sciences Library JABSOM on YouTube
Learn how to access the Web of Sciences' Journal Citation Reports tool to find journal impact factors.
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