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Setting up a citation alert on Web of Science

Step 1: Register/Sign in
Before you start your search you need to sign in to your account on WoS. If you haven’t already got an account you will need to register. To register you will need to enter some basic details and choose a username and password. It only takes a couple of seconds!

wos sign in link

Step 2: Conduct your search
When you have carried out your search go to the full record of the relevant article and click on Create Citation Alert. citation alert button

Step 3: Alert settings
Confirm that you wish to add this article to your cited article list by clicking on done buttonthen go to My Citation Alerts on the toolbar to modify your alert settings.

wok citation toolbar

Click on Modify Settings modify settings button to turn on/off email notification, change your email address, change format of email delivery, or remove the citation alert from your list.

citation alert settings

Step 4. Setting up an RSS Feed
To set up an RSS feed click on the xml button button beside the article on the My Cited Articles List. Subscribe to the feed with your preferred reader or copy and paste the URL (web address) into your RSS feeder’s subscriptions

set up RSS feed screen

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My RI by University College Dublin, Dublin City University, Dublin Institute of Technology, The National University of Ireland, Maynooth and the NDLR adapted by Marion Kelt, Glasgow Caledonian University is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at http://www.ndlr.ie/myri/.