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The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) was founded by Eugene Garfield in 1960. It was acquired by Thomson Scientific in 1992. Following ideas inspired by Vannevar Bushs famous article As We May Think, Eugene Garfield at the Institute for Scientific Information in the 1960s undertook the development of a comprehensive index of how scientific thinking propagates. ...


ISI offers bibliographic database services. Its particular speciality is citation analysis, a field pioneered by Garfield.


It maintains a citation database covering thousands of journals, known as the Science Citation Index (SCI) which is made available online through the Web of Science service. This database allows a researcher to identify which articles have been cited most frequently, and who has cited them. A citation index keeps track of which articles in scientific journals cite which other articles. ...


ISI also an annual Journal Citation Report which lists an Impact Factor for each of the journals that it tracks. Impact Factor is a measure of importance of scientific journals. ...


Within the scientific community, journal Impact Factors play are huge but controversial role in determining the kudos attached to a scientist's published research record.


See also

  • GetCITED - an attempt to replicate Web of Science

getCITED is a web site and database that lists publication and citation information on academic articles whose information is entered by members. ...

External inks

Thomson ISI home page (http://www.isinet.com/)


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Institute for Scientific Information - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (175 words)
The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) was founded by Eugene Garfield in 1960.
It was acquired by Thomson Scientific in 1992 and is therefore often referred to as Thomson ISI.
Within the scientific community, journal Impact Factors play a huge but controversial role in determining the kudos attached to a scientist's published research record.
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