The Search History table appears at the bottom of the Advanced Search and Search History pages. Whenever you perform a search, the results of your search display in the Search History table.
Web of Science now displays the results of a Cited Reference Search in the
Search History table. You can now save these results to a search history file.
What Does the Search History Table Display?
Displays the number of the search set (#1, #2, #3, etc.). Search sets are listed in reverse chronological order with the most recent search set at the top of the table.
Green Highlighted Sets: You do not have to edit your saved search histories and alerts created in an earlier version of the product. They will continue to run as you originally entered them. You can identify earlier search queries because they are highlighted in green. All new search queries, however, are governed by our new Topic and Title search rules and they are not highlighted.
For more information about our search rules, see Phrase Searching.
Gold Highlighted Sets: These are new sets created in the current version of the product. They reference sets created from an earlier version of the product in which the product found more than 100,000 records. The record count of the new set, however, may not be accurate. We suggest that you do not combine sets created in an earlier version if the set contains more than 100,000 records. Instead, recreate new set combinations to get an accurate count.
Displays the total number of results retrieved, along with a link that takes you to the Results page.
Displays the following information for each search query listed in the Search History table:
- Field tags
- Search terms
- Document types
- Languages
- Database(s)
- Timespan
Click View Reference Selections to view the references that you selected for the cited reference search.
The cited references on this page show the name of the first listed author only, even if you found these references by entering the name of a secondary author when you searched the cited reference index. For example, suppose this was your cited reference search:
Cited Author=calvin w* AND Cited Work=science
You then selected the following reference from the cited reference index.
19 . . .Calvin WM SCIENCE 2000 287 107 |
In this instance, the Cited Reference Selections page shows the following:
19 BROWN ME SCIENCE 2000 287 107 |
This occurs because Brown ME is the first listed author of the cited reference.
Click the View Structure Drawing link to see the structure that retrieved the reactions or compounds in the set.
The drawing you see cannot be modified. To modify the drawing, or to create a new one, click Structure Search on the toolbar.
Available Options
From the Search History table, you can:
- Combine search sets.
- Save your queries to a search history file;
- Open a previously saved search history file; and
- Delete search sets.
Saving Search Queries
You can save up to 20 search queries from the Search History table. If the table contains more than 20 queries, then a message will appear above the 20th row indicating that the sets below this point can be saved, but those at row 21 and above cannot be saved.