The Web of Science
provides seamless access to current and retrospective multidisciplinary
information from approximately 8,500 of the most prestigious, high
impact research journals in the world.
The Web of Science
provides seamless access to current and retrospective multidisciplinary
information from approximately 8,500 of the most prestigious,
high impact research journals in the world.
Service Type: Online
Citation Database
Content Strengths
Access to the Science Citation
Expanded®
Social Sciences Citation Index®
Arts & Humanities Citation
Index®
Service Strengths
Navigate
backward in time using cited references to uncover the research
that influenced an author's work
Navigate
forward in time using Times Cited to discover the impact a
paper or other published item has had on current research
Link to the
full text of primary literature
Export records
directly to leading bibliographic management programs: EndNote®,
Reference Manager® and ProCite®
Industry-leading
evaluation and analysis tools
Email alerting
service
Intended Users
Discover who is citing your
research and the impact your work is having on the global research
community
Uncover the seminal research
of an important theory or concept
Measure the influence of colleagues'
or competitors' work
Follow the path and direction
of today's hottest ideas and concepts
Determine if a theory has been
confirmed, changed or improved
Find out how a basic concept
is being applied
Track a topic through years
of research literature
Verify the accuracy of references
Locate relevant articles missed
through a topic or subject search
Journal Citation Reports® presents
quantifiable statistical data that provides a systematic, objective
way to evaluate the world's leading journals and their impact and
influence in the global research community.
Service Type: Online
Database/Evaluation Tool
Content Strengths
Covers more
than 7,000 of the world's most highly cited, peer-reviewed journals
in approximately 200 disciplines
The Science
Edition covers about 5,700 leading international science journals
from the ISI database
The Social
Sciences Edition covers about 1,700 leading international social
sciences journals from the ISI database
Service Strengths
Offers access to citation statistics
for past 3 years.
Enables users to sort data by
clearly defined fields: Impact Factor, Immediacy Index, Total
Cites, Total Articles, Cited Half-Life, or Journal Title.
Intended Users
Librarians - helps users manage
and maintain journal collections and budget for subscriptions
Publishers - enables publishers
to monitor their competitors, identify new publishing opportunities,
and make decisions regarding current publications
Editors - assists in assessing
the effectiveness of editorial policies and objectives and tracking
the standing of their journals
Authors - enables authors to identify
journals in which to publish, confirm the status of journals in
which they have published, and identify journals relevant to their
research
Information Analysts - lets users
track bibliometric trends, study the sociology of scholarly and
technical publication, and study citation patterns within and
between disciplines
Essential Science
Indicators (ESI) is a resource that enables researchers to conduct
ongoing, quantitative analyses of research performance and track
trends in science.
This unique and
comprehensive compilation of science performance statistics and
science trends data is based on journal article publication counts
and citation data from Thomson Scientific databases.
Content Strengths
Covering a multidisciplinary
selection of 11,000+journals from around the world, this in-depth
analytical tool offers data for ranking scientists, institutions,
countries, and journals.
Available as a ten-year rolling
file, ESI covers 10 million articles in 22 specific fields of
research, and is updated every two months.
Service Strengths
Analyzes
research performance of companies, institutions, countries,
and journals
Ranks top
countries, journals, scientists, institutions and companies
by field of research
Identifies
significant trends in the sciences and social sciences
Enables users
to evaluate potential employees, collaborators, reviewers,
and peers
Determines
research output and impact in specific fields of research
Links to
Web of Science
Intended Users
Provides
a unique analytical tool for government policy makers, university
or corporate research administrators, analysts, researchers,
or information specialists in government, academia, industry,
publishing, financial services, and research foundations
