Bug in wildcard search Thomson Web of Science

Daigu info at DAIGU.NL
Sun Mar 25 08:37:23 EDT 2012


There is a bug in the Web of Science wildcard search.

TS=("hydro$power") is not supposed to give results according to the
help, but it does. I.e., the quotes are ignored.

TS=(hydro$power) should match "hydro-power", "hydro power" and
"hydropower", but it doesn't. It appears to match only "hydropower".

The same goes for (hydro*power).

For more information, see
http://www.datagnostics.net/wos_wildcard_bug.htm

A bug report has been filed with and confirmed by Thomson.



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