ISI Citation Databases
ISI Citation Databases are multidisciplinary databases of bibliographic information gathered from thousands of scholarly journals. It is indexed so that you can search for specific articles by subject, author, journal, and/or author address. Because the information stored about each article includes the article's cited reference list (often called its bibliography), you can also search the databases for articles that cite a known author or work.

Cited Reference Searching, unique to ISI, lets you use a given work as if it were a subject term to identify more recent articles on the same topic. For example, you can find all works that reference articles published by A. Williamson in 1995 in the Journal of Neurophysiology (J Neurophysiol). This type of searching often locates relevant articles that cannot be retrieved through traditional subject-author searching.

Two search options are available:

  • Easy Search - Offers a simplified topic, person, or place search that returns a maximum of 100 results. 
  • Full Search - Offers the full range of General Search and Cited Reference Search options and returns a site-configured maximum number of results. 
Data stored for each item in the databases include title, author(s), journal, issue, page(s), abstract, keywords (KeyWords Plus), author addresses, publisher, and more. These data are presented on the Full Record page.

Once you find an article of interest, the Web of Science gives you the ability to link directly to other articles on the same topic, even articles that have been published after the article you are viewing. 
 
From the Full Record page, you can link to:
  • Cited References – 
  • A list of records cited by the document you are viewing. 
  • Citing Articles – A list of records that cite the article you are viewing. 
  • Related Records – A list of records that share common references with the article you are viewing. 
The picture at the right shows the relationship between the Full Record and its Cited References, Citing Articles, and Related Records.		  

Available Databases
Science Citation Index Expanded
Social Sciences Citation Index
Arts & Humanities Citation Index
Science Citation Index Expanded 
The Science Citation Index Expanded is a multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the sciences. It indexes more than 5,700 major journals across 164 scientific disciplines, covering approximately 2,100 more journals than its SCI print and CD-ROM counterparts, with all cited references captured. 


SCI Expanded: 

Provides access to current information and retrospective data from 1945 forward. 
Note: You may not have access to all data years

Averages 17,750 new records per week. 

Includes approximately 362,000 new cited references per week. 

Includes approximately 775 new cited references to patents per week. 

Contains a current total of over 17 million records. 

As of January 1991, contains searchable, full-length, English-language author abstracts for approximately 70% of the articles in the database. 

Some of the disciplines covered include: 
     
    Agriculture   Neuroscience
    Astronomy   Oncology
    Biochemistry   Pediatrics
    Biology   Pharmacology
    Biotechnology   Physics
    Chemistry   Plant Sciences
    Computer Science    Psychiatry
    Materials Science    Surgery
    Mathematics   Veterinary Science
    Medicine   Zoology

Social Sciences Citation Index
The Social Sciences Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the social sciences. It indexes more than 1,725 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. 


SSCI: 

Provides access to current information and retrospective data from 1956 forward. 
Note: You may not have access to all data years

Averages 2,700 new records per week. 

Includes approximately 50,500 new cited references per week. 

Includes approximately 138 new cited references to patents each week. 

Contains a current total of over 3.15 million records. 

As of January 1992, contains searchable, full-length, English-language author abstracts for approximately 60% of the articles in the database. 

Some of the disciplines covered include: 
     
    Anthropology    Political Science
    History   Public Health
    Industrial Relations   Social Issues
    Information Science & Library Science    Social Work
    Law   Sociology
    Linguistics   Substance Abuse
    Philosophy   Urban Studies
    Psychology   Women's Studies
    Psychiatry    

Arts & Humanities Citation Index
Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It indexes 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals. 


A&HCI: 

Provides access to current information and retrospective data from 1975 forward. 
Note: You may not have access to all data years

Averages 2,250 new records per week. 

Includes approximately 15,250 new cited references per week. 

Contains a current total of over 2.5 million records. 

Contains unique implicit citations that refer you to actual representations of a work of art or music score. 

Contains title enhancements added to ambiguous or hard-to-categorize article titles to clarify article contents. 

As of January 2000, the Arts & Humanities Index contains searchable, full-length, English-language author abstracts (as available) for the new articles entered into the database.

Some of the disciplines covered include: 
     
    Archaeology    Linguistics
    Architecture    Literary Reviews
    Art   Literature
    Asian Studies    Music
    Classics   Philosophy
    Dance   Poetry
    Folklore   Radio, Television, & Film
    History   Religion
    Language   Theater