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New feature and updated Journal Citation Reports

September 15, 2008

For Immediate Release

STILLWATER -New features have been added to ISI Web of Knowledge. Most notably, a citation mapping tool has been incorporated to provide researchers with a visual result to their research.

The citation mapping tool tracks an article’s cited and citing references through two generations, allowing researchers to visually discover an article’s wider relationships. The resulting “family tree” of information can be utilized by the researcher to highlight the citation relationships most important to their research.

ISI Web of Knowledge, an integrated, versatile research platform, delivers easy access to high quality, diversified scholarly information in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities, as well as search and analysis tools that enhance this content.  The platform provides users the ability to search the right content and find relevant information — whether that information is found in international journals, open access resources, books, patents, proceedings or Web sites.

Databases searchable via the Web of Knowledge platform include:

Science Citation Index Expanded®

Science Citation Index Expanded is a multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the sciences. It fully indexes over 6,650 major journals across 150 scientific disciplines.  The Science Citation Index Expanded includes all cited references captured from indexed articles.

In addition, the Science Citation Index Expanded:

  • Provides access to current information and retrospective data from 1900 to the present. Note that you may not have access to all data years.
  • Averages 19,000 new records per week.
  • Includes approximately 423,000 new cited references per week.
  • As of January 1991, contains searchable, full-length, English-language author abstracts for approximately 70% of the articles in the index.

Social Sciences Citation Index®

The Social Sciences Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the social sciences. It fully indexes over 1,950 journals across 50 social sciences disciplines, and it indexes individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals.
In addition, the Social Sciences Citation Index:

  • Provides access to current information and retrospective data from 1956 forward. Note that you may not have access to all data years.
  • Averages 2,900 new records per week.
  • Includes approximately 60,000 new cited references per week.
  • As of January 1992, contains searchable, full-length, English-language author abstracts for approximately 60% of the articles in the index.

Arts & Humanities Citation Index®

Arts & Humanities Citation Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It fully covers 1,160 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, and it indexes individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals.

In addition, the Arts & Humanities Citation Index:

  • Provides access to current information and retrospective data from 1975 forward. Note that you may not have access to all data years.
  • Averages 2,300 new records per week.
  • Includes approximately 15,250 new cited references per week.
  • Contains a current total of over 2.5 million records.
  • Contains unique implicit citations that refer you to actual representations of a book, a work of art, a music score, or or other source item.
  • Contains title enhancements added to ambiguous or hard-to-categorize article titles to clarify article contents.
  • As of January 2000, the Arts & Humanities Citation Index contains searchable, full-length, English-language author abstracts.

CAB Abstracts® (1910-present)

  • Provides authoritative research information on agriculture, environment and all related applied science disciplines.
  • Use CAB Thesaurus, CABICODES and CAB Registry Numbers.
  • Explore data from journals, books, proceedings, monographs, technical reports, and more
  • Backfiles available to 1910

Food Science and Technology Abstracts™ (1969-present)

  •  Provides thorough coverage of pure and applied research in food science, food technology, and food-related nutrition.
  • Explore the complete food manufacturing cycle, from initial market research to final packaging
  • Access food-related literature from journals, books, proceedings, reports, theses, patents, standards, and legislation
  • Backfiles available to 1969

MEDLINE® (1950-present)

  • The U.S. National Library of Medicine® (NLM®) premier life sciences database.
  • Explore biomedicine and life sciences, bioengineering, public health, clinical care, and plant and animal science
  • Search precisely with MesH terms and CAS registry numbers; link to NCBI databases and PubMed Related Articles
  • Backfiles to 1950

Journal Citation Reports

On July 1, 2008 Journal Citation Reports was updated to include 2007 data.  A recognized authority for evaluating journals, Journal Citation Reports presents quantifiable statistical data that provides a systematic, objective way to evaluate the world's leading journals and their impact and influence in the global research community.

In 2005, JCR Web, available via ISI Web of Knowledge, expanded its analytical capabilities beyond the journal level to include the subject category level. The additional data makes it easier for users to understand performance metrics in context and facilitate collection management decisions.

Related Journals enable users to see which journals share citations, and are therefore related. This analytical feature is available at both the journal level and the journal category level.

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Last Updated: 15 September 2008