Advanced Search Field Tags

Use these two-character field tags to return more relevant results when building advanced search queries.

Field Tag

 Description

AD=Address

 Searches for institution and/or place names in the Author Address and the Editor Address field within a record.

AI=Author Identifiers

 Searches for Web of Science ResearcherID numbers and ORCID identifiers in the Author Identifiers table within a record. Enter a unique Web of Science ResearcherID number or ORCID identifier with the AI field tag.

AO=Astronomical Object

 Searches the Astronomical Object Indexing field within a record

AU=Author

 Searches for names in the following fields within a record. Author(s) Translator Inventor Last names containing a space should be searched with and without the space to ensure that all relevant records are returned. For example: AU=(De Marco* OR DeMarco*) AU=(Van Hecke T* OR Vanhecke T*) See also Guidelines for Searching Names.

CH=Chemical Data

 Searches the Chemical Indexing field within a record. For more details on Inspec chemical indexing, visit the IET web site.

CIX=Controlled Index

 Searches the Controlled Indexing field within a record.

CL=Classification

 Searches the Classification Code(s) field within a record. For more details on Inspec classification, visit the IET web site.

ED=Editor

 Searches for editor names in the Editor(s) field within a record. For example: See also Guidelines for Searching Names

IC=Identifying Codes

 Searches for codes in the following fields within a record. Accession Number CODEN CODEN of Translation ISSN ISSN of Translation Standard Book Number Report Number Contract Number Patent Number Original Patent Number SICI SICI of Translation

IS=ISSN

 Searches the ISSN field within a record. The ISSN (International Standard Serial Number) searches for periodical publications such as journals and electronic publications. If a journal has both a print ISSN and an electronic ISSN, then both display in the Full Record. The format is four numbers, a hyphen (-), three numbers, and then a check character that may be a number or X.

IS=ISBN

 Searches the ISBN field within a record. The ISBN (International Standard Book Number) searches for books. It is a unique machine-readable identifier that marks a book unmistakably. The format is a 10-digit number that contains 3 hyphens (-). The last digit is a check character, which may be a number or an X. The position of the hyphens can vary for each ISBN identifier

MI=Meeting Information

 Searches the following fields within a record. Title of Conference Conference Location Sponsoring Organization Conference Dates

PY=Year Published

 Searches the Source Published field within a record. You must combine this field tag with another field tag using the AND or NOT Boolean operator. Example: TS=cell growth AND PY=2007 When entering a range of years, restrict your search to five years or less; otherwise, processing slows down and the product returns too many unproductive results. Example: TS=cell growth AND PY=(2008-2010)

SO=Publication Name

 Searches for publication names in the Source field within a record. The product retrieves all source titles within a product database (for example, journal titles and/or book titles if the product includes books).

SU=Research Area

 Searches the Research Areas field.

TI=Title

 Searches the Title field within a record.

TS=Topic

 Searches for topic terms in following fields within a record. Title Abstract Controlled Indexing Uncontrolled Indexing Original Indexing Classification Code(s)

UI=Uncontrolled Index

 Searches the Uncontrolled Indexing field within a record.

UT=Accession Number

 Searches the Accession Number field within a record. The accession number is a unique identifying number associated with each record in the product. It consists of a product identification code, a product year, and an item number.