The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) was founded in 1960 by Eugene Garfield to provide bibliographic database services and citation indexing to scientists. ISI was acquired by Thomson Scientific & Healthcare in 1992 and is now part of the Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters. ISI maintains citation databases covering thousands of academic journals and produces yearly citation indexes and journal impact factors to help researchers identify influential publications. Its products include the Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index.

1. The Institute for Scientific
Information ( ISI )
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Science
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2. ABOUT ISI
Stands for The Institute for Scientific Information
Founded by Eugene Garfield in 1960 to provide variety of services to
scientists throughout the world
Offered bibliographic database services especially citation indexing
and analysis
Acquired by Thomson Scientific & Healthcare in 1992 & become
known as Thomson ISI
Now part of the Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson
Reuters
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3. ISI OBJECTIVES
To provide information requirements of scientist in many disciplines & at
many levels of research
To develop machine methods for handling information system
Provide citation referenced & indexing in scientific material & scientist
literature
Production of contents-page services for journal literature
To provide series of indexing statements for bibliography of each articles
Allows a researcher to identify which articles have been cited most
frequently, and who has cited them
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4. PRODUCTS & SERVICES
Being a profit making organization sells approx 20 services around
the world
Provides bibliographic database services
Databases: (Core Services )
Citation Index & Analysis
Science Citation Index ( SCI )
Social Science Citation Index ( SSCI )
Arts & Humanities Citation Index ( AHCI )
Index Chemicals Registry System ( ICRS )
ISI Highly Cited
Index Chemicus
Conducted around 300 information –science seminars annually for
government, industrial & academic groups
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5. PRODUCTS & SERVICES
Writes average 25 papers a year for professional journals
Presentation of various papers at professional meetings
Includes Nobel laureates on its board of directors to serve
Current Awareness Services
Retrospective Search
Current Content Services
Other Miscellaneous Services
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6. CORE SERVICES
Citation Index & Analysis :
It maintains citation databases covering thousands of academic journals
Published multidisciplinary citation index
Produce yearly citation index to all the scientific literature
Current Content Services :
Provides weekly contents-page coverage of 6 different disciplinary areas
Weekly Subject Indexes for literatures in life sciences, clinical practices etc.
Science Citation Index (SCI) :
Includes multidisciplinary files of 3.2 million sources
36 million cited items
Online remote search for 4 weeks of the database which is updated weekly
Permuterm Subject Index
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7. CORE SERVICES
Social Science Citation Index ( SSCI ):
Includes citation of social science journals
Provides Permuterm Subject Index
Arts & Humanities Citation Index ( AHCI ) :
Includes citation of Arts & Humanities related journals
Index Chemicals Registry System ( ICRS ) :
A monthly computer –tape service to the literature of Chemical compounds
that permits searches by compound family, specific substances etc.
A weekly abstracting service i.e. Current Abstracts of Chemistry & Index
Chemicus to chemical literature
A monthly printed substructure index ( Chemical Substructure Index )
SDI Service ( Automatic New Structure Alerts – ANSA) for chemical
structure literature
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8. ISI HIGHLY CITED
ISI Highly Cited is a database of "highly cited researchers"—
scientific researchers whose publications are most often cited in
academic journals over the past decade, published by the Institute
for Scientific Information.
Papers in the upper first percentile with respect of their year of
publication are called highly cited papers
Papers in the upper first percentile based on citation counts of all
articles indexed in the Scientific Citation Databases and published in
a single, fixed year consider for this
Categories includes subjects like Agricultural Sciences, Clinical
Medicine, Biology & Biochemistry, Social Sciences – General, Plant
& Animal Science, Economics/Business etc.
Publication list and biographical details supplied by the researchers
are freely available online
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9. PUBLICATIONS
Annual Journal Citation Reports :
list of an impact factor for each of the journals that it tracks within the
scientific community
Publishes Science Watch :
a newsletter which identifies every two months one paper published in
the previous two years as a "fast breaking paper" in each of 22 broad
fields of science, such as Mathematics (including Statistics),
Engineering, Biology, Chemistry, and Physics
Publishes a list of highly cited researchers
ISI’s Journal Citation Reports
A journal-analysis service that includes various types of citation
statistics to provide an objective view of the subject citation of journals &
their relative importance as source of review
A list of over 14,000 journals is maintained by the ISI which includes
list over 1100 arts and humanities journals as well as scientific
journals
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10. ISI TODAY
Acquired by Thomson Scientific & Healthcare in 1992,under the
name Thomson ISI business of Thomson Reuters
Now is part of the Intellectual Property & Science business of
Thomson Reuters
Web of Knowledge : One of the key feature of Thomson Reuters
It is suite which encompasses various databases like Web of
Science
Today ISI is part of Web Science & delivering all its citation &
indexing services worldwide
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