Web of Science is a global database of world citations, the collection of which contains citations since 1900. The basis of the scientometric platform is the large-scale Web of Science Core Collection, which includes 7 citation indices. Let us consider each of them separately.
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Web of Science Core Collection
Science Citation Index-Expanded (SCIE)
The index was created in 1964 by Eugene Garfield at the Institute for Scientific Information. Now SCIE is maintained by the American company Clarivate Analytics. It covers a wide range of disciplines - more than 182 subject categories. SCIE includes more than 9,500 influential scientific journals, more than 60 million publications and 1.18 billion citations. SCIE includes journals in natural, exact and technical sciences.
The Advanced Science Citation Index has gained a high level of trust and recognition in academia due to its independent material selection system, broad coverage of disciplines and citations, and access to in-depth historical data dating back to 1900.
Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)
The index accommodates the most influential publications in the social sciences. SSCI was created in 1973 by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) and is now part of the Web of Science platform. The index includes 3500 scientific publications in 47 disciplines. The Social Sciences Citation Index collection has more than 10 million publications in the social and behavioral sciences, such as psychology, sociology, economics, political science, and others.
Researchers, academics, and educational institutions use SSCI to analyze scholarly contributions, investigate trends in the social sciences, and assess the impact of individual articles and authors.
Arts & Humanities Citation Index (AHCI)
AHCI was founded in 1975. It includes the most influential publications in the global academic community in the arts and humanities. All journals included in the AHCI collection are screened according to 28 rigorous criteria. Scientific publications are regularly monitored by Web of Science platform experts to ensure that journals always meet the editorial standards of the database.
The collection currently contains more than 1,800 journals in 28 disciplines in the arts and humanities. The Arts and Humanities Citation Index covers more than 4.9 million articles and 33.4 million citations.
Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)
Provides visibility and citability of new scientific journals in a variety of scientific disciplines with broad geographic coverage. The ESCI collection was founded in 2015 and includes all publications that meet certain quality standards but have not yet been fully vetted for inclusion in the main Web of Science indexes. The index is of key importance in increasing the visibility of new scientific journals of international and regional importance. To date, ESCI content covers 7,800 publications, all scientific disciplines, 3 million scientific publications and 74.4 million citations.
Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI)
Designed to track citations and analyze scientific conference proceedings. The collection has more than 205 thousand conference proceedings that can be used by researchers to identify the latest trends and progressive ideas in science. This gives authors the advantage of applying them for the first time, before the latter are published in journals.
The collection of conference proceedings allows you to cite data from scientific events since 1990. The number of citations per publication is more than 70 million.
Book Citation Index (BKCI)
Includes over 137,000 books in 254 subject categories. The collection covers academic monographs, collections of scholarly publications and other books that have passed strict quality criteria and are of value to the scholarly community. Each year BKCI is enriched with 10,000 academic collections. Since 2005, the number of citations of academic books has totaled more than 53.2 million.
The BKCI index serves as a qualitative complement to journal and conference indices.
Current Chemical Reactions (CCR) and Index Chemicus (IC)
The specialized CCR and IC indexes within the Web of Science database focus on chemical research. The collections provide access to step-by-step descriptions of new chemical reactions, synthesis schemes and experimental data, including developments in organic chemistry.
Unique indices in the chemical sciences assist researchers in the development of new compounds and research projects.
CCR content includes data on 1 million chemical reactions, and includes more than 800 scientific journals, patents, and conference abstracts since 1985.
IC content includes data on more than 2 million new chemical compounds, 1000 scientific journals in organic chemistry. The coverage of publications is since 1960.
What disciplines are included in the Web of Science Core Collection indexes?
- Science Citation Index (SCIE): natural, exact and technical sciences.
- Social Science Citation Index (SSCI): social and behavioral sciences.
- Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI): arts and humanities.
- Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI): all disciplines.
- Book Citation Index (BKCI): all disciplines.
- Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI): all disciplines.
- Current Chemical Reactions and Chemist Index (CCR; IC): chemical sciences.
Publishing in the scientometric database Web of Science provides a number of advantages to a scientist: articles published in WoS are cited more often, authors have the opportunity to gain international recognition and high rankings, as well as grant and financial support.
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