The Science Citation Index (SCI) was created in 1960 by Eugene Garfield to allow searching by cited references. It has since evolved into the Web of Science database, which provides access to multiple citation indexing databases covering science, social science, arts and humanities journals. Web of Science allows searching by author, cited references, and keywords to find relevant research and analyze impact metrics like citation counts and the h-index. Access is generally through institutional subscriptions.

1. SCIENCE CITATION INDEX
Presented to : Dr Asif Naveed
Presented by : Andleeb Asim 06 A

2. TABLE OF CONTENTS
• Origins
• Evolutions
• History
• Web of Science
• Services
• Searching Techniques
• Access Requirement
• Problems

3. ORIGINS
Dr. Eugene Garfield: a pioneer in the field
of information science and scientific
communication.
His vision: using cited reference searching
as a basis for scientific and scholarly
discovery.
Dr. Garfield’s 1955 article in Science
introduced citation indexes as a new type
of classification tool -- Use a citation as a
search term (instead of a keyword) and as a
way to follow the “development path” of an
idea.

4. EVOLUTION OF CITATION
INDEX
1960’s Science Citation Index Print
1970’s Sci Search, Social Sci Search
1980’s CD-ROM version,
Late 1990’s Web of Science

5. HISTORY
 Science Citation Index (SCI) originally produced
by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI)
and created by Eugene Garfield in 1960.
SCI was officially launched in 1964.
ISI was acquired by Thomson Scientific &
Healthcare in 1992.
 It is now owned by Clarivate Analytics since
2016.

6. Web of science (previously known as web of
knowledge) is an online subscription-based
scientific citation indexing .
That provides a comprehensive citation search.
It gives access to multiple databases that reference
cross-disciplinary research.
WEB OF SCIENCE

7. SERVICES
ISI
Institute for Scientific
Information
Science
Citation Index
Conference
Proceedings
Citation Index
Index
Chemicus
Arts &
Humanities
Citation Index
Current
Chemical
Reactions
Social
Sciences
Citation Index
Book Citation
Index
Web of Science

8. CITATION DATABASES
Conference Proceedings Citation Index covers
more than 160,000 conference titles in the
Sciences starting from 1990 to the present
day
Science Citation Index Expanded covers more
than 8,500 notable journals encompassing
150 disciplines. Coverage is from the year
1900 to the present day.
Social Sciences Citation Index covers more
than 3,000 journals in social science
disciplines. Range of coverage is from the
year 1900 to the present day.

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Arts & Humanities Citation Index covers more than
1,700 arts and humanities journals starting from
1975. In addition, 250 major scientific and social
sciences journals are also covered.
Index Chemicus lists more than 2.6 million
compounds. The time of coverage is from 1993 to
present day.
Current Chemical Reactions indexes over one
million reactions, and the range of coverage is from
1986 to present day.
Book Citation Index covers more than 60,000
editorially selected books starting from 2005.

10. WEB OF SCIENCE COVERAGE
Subject
Science, social science, arts, humanités
(supports 256 disciplines)
Record depth
Citation indexing, author, topic title, subject
keywords, abstract, periodical title, author's
address, publication year
Format coverage
Full text articles, reviews, editorials,
chronologies, abstracts, proceedings (journals
and book-based ), technical papers

11. JOURNAL SELECTION PROCESS
• Basic journal publishing standard
• Editorial content
• International diversity
• Citation Analysis
Timeliness Peer-viewEng . Lang Bib
Editorial
Convention

12. BASIC SEARCHING

14. AUTHOR SEARCHING
• Enter author’s last name and
initials
• Click “Add Author Name
Variant” to include alternate
names the author may have
published under
• Click “Select Research
Domain”
• Select field(s) that apply to
author’s work
• Click “Select Organization
• Select author’s
organization(s), including
current and past associations
• Click “Finish Search”

15. CITED REFRENCE SEARCHING
3.Compare the entries with the complete
citation to locate the variant citations
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4.Printing, emailing and saving options

17. ADVANCED SEARCHING

20. SEARCH HISTORY
• SAVING SEARCH HISTORIES From the Search
History or Advanced Search page, click Save
History to save your search history. If you choose
to create an alert, note that only results matching
the final query will be sent to your e-mail address.

21. RESEARCHER ID
 Online registry for creating a unique
researcher ID number
Build a publication list identifying your work
 Make your profile public or private – Public
profiles can be searched and viewed by others
 Every member of Researcher ID has a Lab
page.
Availability of features is dependent on a
researcher's privacy settings and on whether
their publication list contains records added
from Web of Science

22. ACESS REQUIREMENTS
The use is charged – generally libraries
grant access.
Application has to be done via ZIH-Login or
University Profile (VPN Client)
Homepage of university library :via Search
‚Web of Science‘ or direct
HEC Subscribed
Fee based subscription Annually for 3 years

23. BASIC INFORMATION
Weekly update Citations
 cited articles in an article
 cited authors in an article
 how often authors are cited, and from
whom.
 Even for external articles.
Related Records
 Detection of similar articles Citation Report
 h-Index

24. PROBLEMS OF WOS
Focus on US-American Journals
 Criteria for subscribed selection of Journals are not
clarified satisfying