Clarivate Analytics – Web of Science
WOS stands for Web of Science, a database of world scientific journals citations, was selected and managed by Clarivate Analytics (USA). The database was founded in 1956 by the Institute of Scientific Information, it was long known as ISI. In 1992, Thomson Science (later it’s Thomson Reuters) acquired ISI (hence the name Thomson ISI) and in 2016, Thomson Reuters sold it to Clarivate Analytics.
Web of Science is also known as a platform consisting of many multidisciplinary research databases designed to support scientific and academic research. Topic-focused databases such as Medline, BIOSIS Citation Index, and Zoological Record; databases focused on document types such as Derwent innovations index (patents) and Data Citation Index (datasets and data research); and databases highlighting content from regions of the world.
Web of Science follows a rigorous evaluation process, ensuring the most influential, relevant, and reliable information is provided – enabling faster discovery of the next big idea
The Web of Science connects the entire search and discovery process through:
- Leading multidisciplinary, multidisciplinary content
- Latest research trends
- Thematically specific content
- Content by geographic area
- Research data
- Scientific analysis tools
Web of Science Collection
(Web of Science Core Collection) is the leading resource in the platform and has the world’s most trusted citation index for scientific and academic research.
The collection selects more than 21,100 high-quality, peer-reviewed academic journals published worldwide (including Open Access magazines) in more than 250 multidisciplinary fields (science and technology, engineering, society, arts, humanities…). The collection also includes more than 100,000 edited books and more than 200,000 workshop proceedings.
Many publishers consider the inclusion of their magazines in the WOS database as the top goal. To be included in the Web of Science database, journals must meet 24 editorial criteria (ensuring quality journal standards) and 4 impact index criteria (to select the most influential journals capable of influence in their respective fields).
Journals that meet the 24 editorial criteria will be included in the ESCI category.
Journals that meet all 28 criteria will be included in the corresponding categories by major such as SCIE, SSCI, AHCI
Every year, the Web of Science database evaluates and removes journals from the database if they do not meet the 24 editorial criteria.
The collection includes:
Magazine
- Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-Expanded): journal in the field of natural sciences.
- Social Science Citation Index (SSCI-Expanded): journal in the field of social sciences
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI): a magazine in the field of arts and people
- Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI): latest journals added by Thomson Reuters since 2015, helping to expand the Web of Science database towards critical, and high-quality publications in new and important scientific fields.
Conference Proceedings
- Conference Proceedings Citation Index: all majors
Book
- Book Citation Index (BKCI): all majors
Journals included in the Web of Science database will enjoy many benefits, including enhanced journal reputation and the ability to fully exploit them.
The peculiarity of the Web of Science Collection: indexing all metadata in each research result it contains, including every reference cited and cited, creates a link between the indexed research and the broader academic literature. WOS indexing can increase journal mining capabilities and is also a precursor to receiving journal Impact Factor. By:
- All journals will be indexed page by page
- Save all information including:
- Author Information
- Business address
- Summary & keywords
- Acknowledgments, sponsors, and topic codes
- Quote
- ORCID (if applicable)
- Unify the names of organizations (more than 5000 organizations around the world), support the process of earning a total publication of an organization
Why Choose Web of Science?
- It is the most standard database for statistics/analysis of information of scientific articles in the ISI category, assessing the capacity of a country, university, and scientist
- It is a reputable database for world university ranking organizations to use for scientific research criteria, especially the AWRU University ranking system.
- It is a database to help young scientists find/update new research directions and track their abilities quickly and conveniently.
- Utility support helps scientists to reap the full text.
- Provides a lot of information to search in the DATABASE: title, author, affiliation, journal name, year of publication, number of citations, etc.
- All the information of the article can be stored in many formats such as Excel (or another database) for analysis.
- Diverse languages: English, French, Chinese, …
- Many tools and utilities to support scientists are included in the Web of Science: Journal Citation Report, Publons, EndNote, …
