Especially for humanities and social sciences, it is best to search all databases simultaneously rather than limit to a general category or subject area. Web of science is the worlds leading citation index with multidisciplinary content from top tier international and regional journals, conference proceedings, and has now been expanded to include books. Igi global journals are found in a number of prestigious indices, including web of science, scopus, and compendex. Its major subject areas include sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities.
The focus is for new content, never published in the products. You can create a citation report for any author in this database that will include. It was first launched in 2011 and indexes over 60,000 editorially selected books, starting from 2005. Web of science core collection book citation indexes. Databases and the years they cover may vary by subscribing institution. Home web of science isi citation indexes guides at. Here is an example from web of science search sequence using jones, j. We capture all cited references regardless of age or document type. The benefits of searching this citation collection is that one can search for current and retrospective information successfully in over 20,000 peer. The selection process for the book citation index in web. The web of knowledge provides access to thomson isis multidisciplinary databases of bibliographic information such as the science citation.
A form of citation index is first found in 12thcentury hebrew religious literature. Science bkcis the book citation index is designed to enhance the powerful discovery and analysis capabilities of web of knowledge by incorporating comprehensive book citation data. The book citation index under the web of science core collection is the most important index for a librarys book collection which is enabling access more quickly and easily with powerful new discovery tools. Web of science indexes the items from each bibliography or list of references. Over 8,000 chapters indexed in web of sciences book. Web of science previously known as web of knowledge is a website which provides subscriptionbased access to multiple databases that provide comprehensive citation data for many different academic disciplines. Conference proceedings citation index cpci, part of clarivate analytics web of science. If the 2nd edition does not present 50% or more new content, it will not be selected. Reuters introduced the book citation index bkci as part of the science citation index sci. Legal citation indexes are found in the 18th century and were made popular by citators such as shepards citations 1873. Rather than a measure of the average number of citations, which can be skewed by either a single highlycited article, or many new articles which have not yet been cited, this is thought to provide a measurement that. It was originally produced by the institute for scientific information isi and is currently maintained by clarivate analytics previously the intellectual property and science. The focus is on scholarly, researchoriented books for product.
The advanced search option for web of science allows the user to create a more complex search and assists with boolean terms, field terms, time span, and choosing which citation index to use. Sci science citation index expanded via the web of science databases the science citation index is a multidisciplinary index and fully indexes over 8,500 major journals across 150 disciplines 1988. As a part of web of science core collection, book citation index allows users to search seamlessly across books, journals and conference. Cited reference searching allows you to see who cited a published book or article.
Information on abstracting and indexing volumes published as part of the lncs, lnai, lnbi, ccis, ifip aict, lnicst or lnbip series are made available to the following indexing services. Coverage includes the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities, available to 1900. The book citation index in web of science core collection connects a librarys book collection to powerful new discovery tools, giving researchers the ability to quickly and easily identify and access the most relevant books. Books and book chapters in the book citation index. Having books indexed in the worlds leading citation index for the academic community, significantly increases the. Citation indexes for finding articles that cite a given author or citation. Web of science extracts the citation information from the articles in over 6,000 journals from almost every discipline. The revised version will be selected only if it presents new content. Scholarly book content complements and enhances the citation relationships between journals, conference proceedings, and books. These indexes are characterized by the quality of the publications covered.
The web of science provides a common search language, navigation environment, and data structure allowing researchers to search broadly across disparate resources and use the citation connections inherent to the index to navigate to relevant research results and measure impact. This guide is to help you use web of science database, where you can do cited reference searches. Search web of science web of science unraveled ucf. Book citation index the book citation index in web of science connects a librarys book collection to powerful new discovery tools, giving researchers the ability to quickly and easily identify and access the most relevant books. Web of science platform guided by the legacy of dr eugene garfield, inventor of the citation index for research literature, web of science is the most worlds most powerful research engine, delivering your library with bestinclass publication and citation data for confident discovery, access, and assessment. Its core collection encompasses six citation indexes in the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities, and collectively contains more than a billion searchable citations spanning over 250 disciplines.
The book citation index bci, bkci is an online subscriptionbased scientific citation indexing service maintained by clarivate analytics and is part of the web of science core collection. Seeds of human futures, 2nd edn, wiley, as the target book citation. By looking at footnotes, you can follow research backwards in time to see what sources the authors used. By connecting your librarys book collection to powerful new discovery tools, the bci provides. Science citation index expanded sciexpanded 1945present. For search tips see the web of science unraveled guide. Web of science book citation index is available library. A citation search in the isi web of science is not a complete citation search. Web of science enables you to create a citation report for any general search result set with fewer than 10,000 results. Sci science citation index expanded via the web of science databases the science citation index is a multidisciplinary index and fully indexes over 8,500 major journals across 150 disciplines 1988 to present.
Web of science also covers conference proceedings literature in its conference proceedings citation index. As a part of web of science core collection, book citation index allows users to search seamlessly across books, journals and conference proceedings to find the information most relevant to their work within one platform. Web of science formerly isi citation indexes citation. Coverage of revised edition of a book in book citation index revised edition is picked up only if there is new material to present. As a part of web of science core collection, book citation index allows users to search seamlessly across books, journals and conference proceedings to find the information most. Biosis citation index, currents contents connect, data citation index, derwent innovations index, medline, scielo citation index, zoological.
Web of science indexes leading scholarly journals, books, proceedings, and other formats. Web of science is the worlds leading citation database with multidisciplinary content from nearly 12,000 top tier international and regional journals, over 120,000 conference proceedings, and soon books. Curated by an expert team of inhouse editors, web of science core collection is a trusted, highquality, definitive resource for journals, books and conference proceedings. The search may be for an author, but it may also be for a group of authors working in a lab, an institution, a subject, etc. Its this quality and depth of content that sets web of science apart from other research databases. The number of articles it assigns to nutrition and dietetics rose 20% more and reached a maximum of 11,300 in 2016. For the coverage of book citation index, each book is evaluated on a case by case basis. Igi global books are found in a number of prestigious indices, including thomson reuters, scopus, and compendex. Web of science wos is one of the largest and most reputable global citation databases. The interface of the web of science version 5 enables users to search for both books and book chapters as new categories. Selection criteria is based on the amount of highly cited content found in the book, as well as its practical relevance and contribution to the field of research. Visibility of your valuable collections and resources by providing links to ebooks in your library catalogue.
Home web of science research guides at drake university. 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. Published authors may search for their published works to understand the impact their research is having on other researchers and disciplines. Book citation index clarivate analytics resources and tools. As a part of web of science core collection, book citation index allows users to search seamlessly across books, journals and conference proceedings to find the. Selection criteria is based on the amount of highly cited content found in the journal, as well as its practical relevance and contribution to the field of research. A selection of our books included in isi web of sciences. Web of science provides access to science citation index, social science citation index, and arts and humanities citation index. Emerging sources citation index 2015present current chemical reactions 1985present you can search one or more of these databases from the web of science interface. How to get a journal indexed in web of science core. Cited reference search web of science core collection. The web of science previously known as the web of knowledge provides quick, powerful access to the worlds leading citation databases.
The heart of the platform is the web of science core collection, which indexes over 20,000 scholarly journals. Web of science master journal list wos mjl by clarivate. It indexes over 12,000 journals in the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Sci science citation index expanded via the web of. The web of science core collection wos indexed 560,000 articles in 1989 and tripled that to 1,740,000 in 2017 fig. Visit the web of science, book citation index website to learn more. The book citation index allows you to search for books series and nonseries. Web of science citation analysis library guides at. Some databases, such as web of science, will calculate an h index based on the number of citations to an author in that database. A single point of access to citations across journals, proceedings, and books, which yields more comprehensive results on any research topic. Book citations are seamlessly integrated with other citation indexes in web of science core collection to provide a more complete citation. Web of science provides citation counts for articles indexed within it.