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What's included? Access to Science Citation Index (1900-present), Social Sciences Citation Index (1900-present), Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-present), Emerging Sources Citation Index (2005-present), Conference Proceedings Citation Index (1900-present), and Book Citation Index (2005-present). Contains citations to articles from over 10,000 of the most prestigious, high impact research journals in the world.
What else should I know? Searching by cited reference allows the user to uncover the research that influenced an author’s work or to navigate forward in time to discover a paper’s impact on current research.
Additional Web of Science (Clarivate) databases:
BIOSIS Citation Index (Web of Science)
This link opens in a new windowWhat's included? Citations to sources in traditional areas of biology like botany, zoology, and microbiology, as well as related and interdisciplinary fields such as agriculture, biochemistry, bioengineering, biomedical, biophysics, biotechnology, ecology, medicine, and pharmacology.What dates are covered? 1969-present
Essential Science Indicators (Clarivate)
This link opens in a new windowWhat's included? Emerging science trends and rankings of the most influential publications, institutions, and countries across 22 key research fields.
InCites Benchmarking & Analytics (Clarivate)
This link opens in a new windowWhat's included? Uses publication data from Web of Science to analyze institutional productivity, monitor collaboration activity, identify influential researchers, showcase strengths, and discover areas of opportunity. What else should I know? Requires creation of individual account using uri.edu email.
Requires creation of individual account using uri.edu email.
Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate)
This link opens in a new windowWhat's included? Multidimensional profiles for assessing the world's leading journals.
KCI - Korean Journal Database (Clarivate)
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What's included? Citations to scholarly literature published in South Korea. Uses citation connections from the Web of Science to frame regional work within the broader context of global research. What dates are covered? 1980 - Present.
MEDLINE (Web of Science)
This link opens in a new windowWhat's included? From the U.S. National Library of Medicine, provides citations to articles on biomedicine and life sciences topics including bioengineering, public health, clinical care, and plant and animal science, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, marine biology, and preclinical sciences. What dates are included? 1809 - Present.
Preprint Citation Index (Clarivate)
This link opens in a new windowWhat's included? Citations to preprints posted in arXiv, bioRxiv, medRxiv, chemRxiv, and Preprints.org.What dates are covered? 1990 - Present.What else should I know? Preprints are not peer-reviewed articles, but some preprints may subsequently be published in the scholarly literature. If you have questions about the quality of a preprint, please consult the Research Help Desk for verification.
Research Commons (Web of Science)
This link opens in a new windowWhat's included? Research Commons on the Web of Science platform is a separate, comprehensive collection of journal content from open metadata sources that can improve the discovery of items not otherwise indexed on the Web of Science platform. It sits alongside the more selective, curated Web of Science Core Collection and adds a significant amount of content in social sciences, arts, and humanities fields, and from the Global South. Records are integrated into the Web of Science citation network, creating linkages between papers. What dates are covered? 2015-present
SciELO Citation Index (Clarivate)
This link opens in a new windowWhat's included? Search and view critically important research content from Latin America, Spain, Portugal, the Caribbean and South Africa. Provides comprehensive picture of the influencers and drivers of regional research. What dates are covered? 1997 - Present.
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