Everything about The Institute For Scientific Information totally explained
The
Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) was founded by
Eugene Garfield in
1960. It was acquired by
Thomson Scientific & Healthcare in
1992, became known as
Thomson ISI and now as
Thomson Scientific. It is a component of the multi-billion dollar
Thomson Reuters Corporation.
The ISI offers
bibliographic database services. Its speciality is
citation indexing and analysis, a field pioneered by Garfield. It maintains citation databases covering thousands of
academic journals, including a continuation of its longtime print-based indexing service the
Science Citation Index (SCI), as well as the
Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), and the
Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI). All of these are available via ISI's
Web of Knowledge database service. This database allows a researcher to identify which articles have been cited most frequently, and who has cited them.
The ISI also publishes annual
Journal Citation Reports which list an
impact factor for each of the journals that it tracks. Within the scientific community, journal impact factors play a large but controversial role in determining the kudos attached to a scientist's published research record.
A list of over 14,000 journals is maintained by the ISI. The list includes over 1100 arts and humanities journals as well as scientific journals. Listing is based on published selection criteria and is an important indicator of journal quality and impact.
The ISI also publishes a list of
highly cited researchers, one of the factors included in the
Academic Ranking of World Universities published by Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
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