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Institutional subscriptions to Web of Science vary, both in terms of databases and depth of data. Your institution may have a subset of the content listed below. Contact your account manager if you need help doing a coverage analysis or comparison.
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Web of Science Core Collection |
Web of Science platform |
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Summary |
A rich collection of citation indexes representing the citation connections between scholarly research articles found in the most globally significant journals, books, and proceedings in the sciences, social sciences, and art & humanities. The Web of Science Core Collection serves as the standard data set underpinning the journal impact metrics found in the Journal Citation Reports and the institutional performance metrics found in InCites. |
A platform providing access to regional citation indexes, specialty hosted collections, beyond published literature, and specialty collections. The Web of Science provides a common search language, navigation environment, and data structure allowing researchers to search broadly across disparate resources and use the citation connections inherent to the index to navigate to relevant research results and measure impact. |
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Citation Indexes:
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Beyond published literature:
Specialty hosted collections:
Regional collections:
Specialty collections:
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| Updating frequency | Daily (7 days per week) | Each collection is updated on its own schedule ranging from daily to monthly. |
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Number of journals |
> 22,209 journals + books and conference proceedings |
> 34,665 journals + books, proceedings, patents, and data sets |
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Journal acceptance rate |
10-12% for the three core indices - Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Science Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index - rates for the Emerging Sources Citation Index are generally higher. Each journal is rigorously evaluated prior to selection. Once selected, all content is indexed cover to cover. For more information refer to our editorial page. |
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Coverage |
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Cited references |
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Author indexing |
All authors from all publications are indexed. Authors linked to addresses from 2008-forward. |
WoS Core Collection: All authors from all publications are indexed. Other resources: Author indexing varies by resource. |
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Institution indexing |
All author affiliations are indexed. Institution’s variants and parent/child relationships are mapped and connected to a preferred institutional name through a manually-curated process. |
Author, author affiliation and cited reference indexing varies by collection. |
