Citation Alerts in the ISI Web of Knowledge

Creating an account in ISI's Web of Knowledge (Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index, and Social Sciences Citation Index) will allow you to create both Citation Alerts and Saved Searches.

You can set up your account and login to it from the Customize Your Experience section of the right sidebar.

My Citation Alerts

1. Once you've created an account for yourself and logged in to it, you will see a link to My Citation Alerts in the upper right part of the screen.
2. When viewing a full record look for the button on the right of the screen that says Create Citation Alert.


3. Clicking it will add that record to your personal list of citation alerts. From now on, whenever someone cites that particular article, you will have the choice (designated on the My Cited Articles list) of setting up an RSS feed or receiving an email alert or both:
4. Setting up the RSS feed: Click on the XML button, then choose which RSS service you wish to add this alert to.

My Saved Searches

Note: You must use Advanced Search to take advantage of the Saved Searches/Search History feature.

1. In the Search History section of the Advanced Search page, you will see recent search sets and their results. Delete or combine them as needed, then click on the Save History/Create Alert button.
2. At this point, on the Save Search History screen, you can give you saved search a name and description to identify if for later use. You can also specify where and in what format updates will be sent to you via email.
3. Before leaving this page, be sure to click the Save button in the lower left part of the screen. Note that you can save it either in ISI's server or as a local file on your own computer.
4. Click on the <<back link in the upper left part of the page.
5. Now, in your Search History section you can click on the Open Saved History button any time to either rerun a search, renew the time period for the alerts, or set up an XML feed.