The Chinese Science Citation Database (CSCD) is a
bibliographic database
A bibliographic database is a database of bibliographic records, an organized digital collection of references to published literature, including journal and newspaper articles, conference proceedings, reports, government and legal publications, ...
and
citation index
A citation index is a kind of bibliographic index, an index of citations between publications, allowing the user to easily establish which later documents cite which earlier documents. A form of citation index is first found in 12th-century Hebre ...
managed by
Clarivate
Clarivate Plc is a British-American publicly traded analytics company that operates a collection of subscription-based services, in the areas of bibliometrics and scientometrics; business / market intelligence, and competitive profiling for ph ...
in partnership with the
Chinese Academy of Sciences
The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); ), known by Academia Sinica in English until the 1980s, is the national academy of the People's Republic of China for natural sciences. It has historical origins in the Academia Sinica during the Republi ...
.
Created in 1989, it is the first non-English database available within
Web of Science.
The CSCD contains journals in the topics of natural science, engineering technology, medicine, and additional technology and science areas.
The database has almost 17 million citations and indexes 300,000 articles published between 1998 and the current time from thousands of journals.
Its network version was created in 2002 and allows users to inquiries through two methods: "source literature and citation search"..
It stores 1,200 China-based academic publications which in aggregate have 2million entries.
According to Jingfeng Xia, CSCD is "the earliest database in China" and "is widely recognized as one of the best databases for Chinese scientific literature".
In a 2005 article in the ''
'', Loet Leydesdorff and Jin Bihui found that CSCD is "integrated by a maze of university-based journals". They continued, "In summary, one could say that the Chinese Science Citation Database exhibits the characteristics of transdisciplinary integration in the production of scientific knowledge more than its Western counterparts. In addition to intellectual organization a layer of institutional integration provides a focus on the priorities of the economy and the state that is absent in the international database."
See also
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Chinese Social Sciences Citation Index
References
External links
CSCD Web of Sciences{{Authority control
Bibliographic databases and indexes
Citation indices
Science and technology in China