Web of Science
Pro – contains only the high-impact journals (don’t be put off by the “science” in the title).
Pro – lets you know how often an article has been cited by other articles in high-impact journals
Pro – you can use truncation and Boolean operators
Pro – can limit to title and topic (title, abstract, and author keywords)
Con – a general database not focused just on political science
Web of Science example – women and politics and the United States


At the bottom of the search results page – the results in Web of Science can be limited by the number of times an article has been cited or by the relevance (based in part on how frequently your search words appear in the article).
