Web of Science

What is a Citation Report?

The Citation Report provides a graphical representation of citation statistics for a set of search results. These statistics include:

The total number of times all items have been cited
The average number of times an item has been cited
The number of times an item has been cited each year
The average number of times an item has been cited in a year

Citation reports are available for results of the following searches:

Search
Author Finder
Search within Results
Refine Results
Analyze Results
Marked records

A Citation Report is not available for:

Cited Reference Search Results
Citing Articles
Related Records

Printing & Saving

Printing & Saving Citation Reports

Saving Records
Use the “Output Options” box at the bottom of the page. If you want to save the entire set, you will need to enter the numbers of the records you wish to save. The number of records in the set is listed under the “Output Options” box.

“Save as text file” produces a delimited text file
“Save as Excel File” produces an Excel file of all the records, including the Citation Linker graphs.
Neither option saves the search criteria, so it may be helpful to copy and paste the search criteria into t he file before saving a copy.

If you want the search criteria in, and is best to print Citation Reports using the “Print” option on your Internet Browser. Using the “Print” button in Web of Science will eliminate relevant information.

If you want to save a copy of the results including the search strategy, you can save the first page and graphs of the Citation Report as a PDF file using your browser’s save option. You will need to have a program that creates PDF files loaded on your machine. I used PDF Creator. It is a shareware product that you can download for free at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/