When wildcards fail: Diagnosing truncation in Web of Science Smart Search for information literacy and library practice
Journal of Librarianship and Information Science
Published online on July 14, 2026
Abstract
Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, Ahead of Print.
Truncation—the use of wildcard symbols to capture morphological variants of word stems—is a foundational skill in information literacy, essential for comprehensive, reproducible scholarly searching. In sport and exercise sciences, where terms likesport*, ...
Truncation—the use of wildcard symbols to capture morphological variants of word stems—is a foundational skill in information literacy, essential for comprehensive, reproducible scholarly searching. In sport and exercise sciences, where terms likesport*, ...