Science Citation Index

The Science Citation Index (SCI) is a citation index originally produced by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) and created by Eugene Garfield in 1960, which is now owned by Thomson Reuters.[1][2] The larger version (Science Citation Index Expanded) covers more than 6,500 notable and significant journals, across 150 disciplines, from 1900 to the present. These are alternately described as the world's leading journals of science and technology, because of a rigorous selection process.[3] The index is made available online through the Web of Science database, a part of the Web of Knowledge collection of databases. (There are also CD and printed editions, covering a smaller number of journals). This database allows a researcher to identify which later articles have cited any particular earlier article, or cited the articles of any particular author, or determine which articles have been cited most frequently. Thomson Reuters also markets several subsets of this database, termed "Specialty Citation Indexes",[4] such as the Neuroscience Citation Index[5] and the Chemistry Citation Index.[6]

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  1. ^ "History of Citation Indexing" (Free HTML download). Needs of researchers create demand for citation indexing. Thomson Ruters. November 2010. http://thomsonreuters.com/products_services/science/free/essays/history_of_citation_indexing/. Retrieved 2010-11-04. 
  2. ^ "Science Citation Index". http://www.thomsonreuters.com/products_services/science/science_products/a-z/science_citation_index?parentKey=441594. Retrieved 2009-08-30. 
  3. ^ "Science Citation Index Expanded". http://www.thomsonreuters.com/products_services/science/science_products/a-z/science_citation_index_expanded?parentKey=441594. Retrieved 2009-08-30. 
  4. ^ "Specialty Citation Indexes". http://www.thomsonreuters.com/products_services/science/science_products/a-z/Specialty_Citation_Indexes?view=Standard&parentKey=441594. Retrieved 2009-08-30. 
  5. ^ "Journal Search - Science -". http://science.thomsonreuters.com/cgi-bin/jrnlst/jlresults.cgi?PC=MD. Retrieved 2009-08-30. 
  6. ^ "Journal Search - Science - Thomson Reuters". http://science.thomsonreuters.com/cgi-bin/jrnlst/jloptions.cgi?PC=CD. Retrieved 14 January 2011. 

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