The Science Citation Index Expanded (previously titled Science Citation Index) is a
citation index originally produced by the
Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) and created by
Eugene Garfield.
The Science Citation Index (SCI) was officially launched in 1964, and later was distributed via
CD/
DVD. Then in 1997, Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) superseded SCI, and becomes available online. SCIE is now owned by
Clarivate (previously the Intellectual Property and Science business of
Thomson Reuters).
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The indexing database covers more than 9,200 notable and significant
journals, across 178 disciplines, from 1900 to the present. These are alternatively described as the world's leading journals of
science and
technology, because of a rigorous selection process.
Accessibility
The index is available online within
Web of Science,
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] as part of its Core Collection (there are also CD and printed editions, covering a smaller number of journals). The database allows researchers to search through over 53 million records from thousands of academic journals that were published by publishers from around the world.
Specialty citation indexes
Clarivate previously marketed several subsets of this database, termed "Specialty Citation Indexes",
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] such as the Neuroscience Citation Index
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] and the Chemistry Citation Index, however these databases are no longer actively maintained.
The Chemistry Citation Index was first introduced by Eugene Garfield, a chemist by training. His original "search examples were based on
isexperience as a chemist".
In 1992, an electronic and print form of the index was derived from a core of 330 chemistry journals, within which all areas were covered. Additional information was provided from articles selected from 4,000 other journals. All chemistry subdisciplines were covered: organic, inorganic, analytical, physical chemistry, polymer, computational, organometallic, materials chemistry, and electrochemistry.
By 2002, the core journal coverage increased to 500 and related article coverage increased to 8,000 other journals.
One 1980 study reported the overall citation indexing benefits for chemistry, examining the use of citations as a tool for the study of the sociology of chemistry and illustrating the use of citation data to "observe" chemistry subfields over time.
See also
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Arts and Humanities Citation Index
The ''Arts & Humanities Citation Index'' (A&HCI), also known as ''Arts & Humanities Search'', is a citation index, with abstracting and indexing for more than 1,700 arts and humanities journals, and coverage of disciplines that includes social an ...
, which covers 1,130 journals, beginning with 1975.
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Emerging Sources Citation Index
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Google Scholar
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Impact factor
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List of academic databases and search engines
This article contains a representative list of notable databases and search engines useful in an academic setting for finding and accessing articles in academic journals, institutional repositories, archives, or other collections of scientific and ...
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Social Sciences Citation Index
The Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) is a commercial citation index product of Clarivate Analytics. It was originally developed by the Institute for Scientific Information from the Science Citation Index. The Social Sciences Citation Index is ...
, which covers 1,700 journals, beginning with 1956.
References
Further reading
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External links
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Introduction to SCIEMaster journal listChemical Information Sources/ Author and Citation Searches on WikiBooks.
Thomson Reuters.
Chemistry Citation Index Chinweb.
Citation indices
Online databases
Clarivate
1964 establishments