UT and RecID in ISI Web of Science

[Linda Butler]

Hi Ton

The UT is a unique identifier for an article.  It is present in the 
raw data files we obtain from Thomson.

I don't know the RecID, so can't answer that part of your query.

Linda

At 01:56 AM 6/06/2007, you wrote:
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>Hi everyone,
>
>I have a question about ISI Web of Science. In  ISI WoS, each 
>article is represented by an identifier called UT, however there's 
>also another identifier called RecID. What are differences between 
>them? (I only know that RecID is could be used to identify cited 
>references of a given article). Are they unique (i.e. with an 
>article there is only 1 UT and/or 1 RecID)?
>
>Thank you in advance,
>T. Van

Linda Butler
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