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Editor

Web of Science contains the names of all editors associated with a source document such as journal articles, proceedings papers, and more.

Enter the name of an editor to search the Editor(s) field within a record. Enter complete names or partial names using wildcards (* ? $).

Searching for Editors Using Analyze Results

To narrow your search to editors of specific types of published papers (for example, nature journal articles or nature conference proceedings), use the Analyze Results function.

  1. From the Results page, click the Analyze Results link that appears under the Sort menu.

  2. From the Analyze Results page, rank the records by the Source Title field.

  3. Go through the list and select records to view or select records to exclude.

  4. Go to the Results page to analyze your results.

Guidelines for Entering Editor Names

Format

Enter the last name first, followed by a space and up to five initials. You may also enter last names without initials. For example:

  • Ricker finds all editors with the last name Ricker.

  • Berg* finds Berg JL, Berga L, Bergen B, and so on.

Case

Use upper, lower, or mixed case. For example, Lee (or lee) is the same as LEE.

Wildcards

Enter a last name followed by an asterisk (*) to find all authors with that name. For example:

  • Smith finds Smith D, Smith JC, Smith RA, and so on. It may also find records where Reach appears without any initials.

  • Smith L* finds Smith LC, Smith LJ, Smith LM, and so on.

Use the question mark (?) or dollar sign ($) to search for variations on a name. For example:

  • Hof?man finds Hofman and Hoffman.

  • Hofman$ finds Hofman and Hoffmann.

  • Hof$man$ finds Hofman, Hofmann, Hoffman, and Hoffmann.

Search Tip

To search on the name AND, OR, NOT, and SAME, enclose the name in quotation marks. Example: "Or"

Searching for Journal Editors

To restrict your search to editors of journal articles, deselect the two Conference Proceedings citation indexes.

Searching for Proceedings Editors

To restrict your search to editors of conference papers, deselect the Science, Social Sciences, and Arts citation indexes.

More Search Guidelines

See the following topics for more search guidelines.