Web of Science (including Science Citation Index Expanded & Social Science Citation Index)

Abstracts and citations are drawn from leading professional science and social sciences journals. The database also offers access to articles' cited references which include government publications, patents, sciences and social sciences articles.

Access

For NTU Staff & Students.
Restricted on-site access for:
-- NIE Staff & Students (logon to NTU Libraries PCs)
-- Associate Members (approach our Research Assistance Desk, Lee Wee Nam Library, Level 2)

ISI Web of Knowledge

Source

Institute of Scientific Information (ISI)

Databases

Science Citation Index (SCI) Expanded
A multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the sciences. It indexes more than 6,650 major journals across 150 scientific disciplines, covering approximately 2,100 more journals than its SCI print and CD-ROM counterparts, with all cited references captured.

Social Science Citation Index (SSCI)
A multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the social sciences. It indexes more than 1,950 journals spanning 50 disciplines, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals.

Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI)

A multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It indexes more than 1,160 of the world’s leading arts and humanities journals, as well as selected items from over 6,800 scientific and social sciences journals.

 

 

Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI)

ISI Proceeding is now integrated and searchable from within Web of Science as the Conference Proceedings Citation Index. Fully indexes over 110,000 journal and book-based proceedings in Science and Social Sciences and Humanities across 256 disciplines

Data

Bibliographic with abstracts

Coverage

SCI Expanded: 1900 onwards
SSCI: 1956 onwards
A&HCI: 1975 onwards

CPCI: 1991 onwards

Size

SCI Expanded: over 17 million records
SSCI: over 3.15 million records

CPCI: over 5 million records

Addition

SCI Expanded: Averages 19,000 new records per week; ~423,000 new cited references and ~775 new cited references to patents per week.
SSCI: Averages 2,900 new records per week; ~60,000 new cited references and ~138 new cited references to patents per week

A&HCI: Averages 2,300 new records per week; ~15,250 new cited references per week.

CPCI: Averages 385,000 records added yearly.

Update

weekly

Publications covered

see list of journals for SCI Expanded and SSCI

Guide

ISI Web of Science Tutorial, ISI Web of Knowledge, Journal Selection Process for ISI Databases, ISI Training Aids

Concurrent User

Unlimited

Save Option

Yes, mark results to save, export to a txt file OR as email.

Direct Export to EndNote available.

Print Option

Yes

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