What is the Science Citation Index?
The ISI® Science Citation Index (SCI®) provides access to current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references found in 3,700 of the world’s leading scholarly science and technical journals covering more than 100 disciplines. The Science Citation Index Expanded® format, available through the Web of Science® , covers more than 5,800 journals. Starting with an older article on a topic of interest, users can identify more recent works that cite that original work in their bibliographies or footnotes. The rationale behind this concept is that articles citing an older article will be on a similar topic. It also assists the researcher to identify interconnections among several disciplines, locate updated research, and find retractions and corrections. This type of searching often locates relevant articles that cannot be retrieved through traditional subject-author searching. Authors often use the SCI® to find out how frequently their articles are being
