Web of Science as a data source for research on scientific and scholarly activity

By C. Birkle, D. Pendlebury, Joshua Schnell, Jonathan Adams. Quantitative Science Studies, 2020

1,113 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Abstract Web of Science (WoS) is the world’s oldest, most widely used and authoritative database of research publications and citations. Based on the Science Citation Index, founded by Eugene Garfield in 1964, it has expanded its selective, balanced, and complete coverage of the world’s leading research to cover around 34,000 journals today. A wide range of use cases are supported by WoS from daily search and discovery by researchers worldwide through to the supply of analytical data sets and the provision of specialized access to raw data for bibliometric partners. A long- and well-established network of such partners enables the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) to continue to work closely with bibliometric groups around the world to the benefit of both the community and the services that the company provides to researchers and analysts.

Subfields: Information Systems, Information Systems and Management, Statistics and Probability

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In Information Systems

1. Rüdiger Mutz
2. Lutz Bornmann
3. Loet Leydesdorff
4. John C. Mingers
5. Nicole Mitchell

In Information Systems and Management

1. Lutz Bornmann

In Statistics and Probability

1. Rüdiger Mutz
2. Robin Haunschild
3. Lutz Bornmann
4. S. Ceci
5. Mike W.-L. Cheung
6. Salvatore Ruggieri
7. Andrea Romei
8. Loet Leydesdorff

Citations in the corpus

• Growth rates of modern science: a latent piecewise growth curve approach to model publication numbers from established and new literature databases (2020, background): “In a previous study (Bornmann and Mutz, 2015), two authors of the current study investigated the growth of science based on data from the Web of Science database (Clarivate Analytics; Birkle et al., 2020).”