The Web of Science database began its work in 1997. During this period, it acquired great importance for the scientific community. A large number of researchers from all over the world dream of publishing a Web of Science article. However, unfortunately, not everyone succeeds in this as the publications indexed in Web of Science make serious demands regarding the content quality and its significance for the international community. Let’s consider what Web of Science is, citation indexes, collections, and what should be considered when preparing a Web of Science publication.
What is Web of Science, and what does the platform consist of?
The Web of Science scientometric database indexes thousands of scientific publications included in various collections and citation indexes. The core of the database, that is, the main collection is the Web of Science Core Collection. It includes the following citation indexes:
- Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) – an expanded citation index, from more than 9 thousand journals from 178 subject disciplines.
- Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) – social sciences where 3,500 publications from 58 disciplines are indexed.
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) – for arts and humanities disciplines, that includes about 1,800 journals from 28 disciplines.
- Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) – a citation index for new sources from about 8,000 journals from over 250 disciplines.
- Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI) – citation of conference materials from over 200,000 materials.
- Book Citation Index (BKCI) – book citation index from over 100,000 cited sources.
- Current Chemical Reactions and Index Chemicus – chemical sciences citation index.
SCIE, SSCI, AHCI are considered to be the most significant, and the quartile and impact factor indicators are calculated for the first two of them. In addition, last year Web of Science began to calculate a new metric, the Journal Citation Indicator. Publication in publications included in the mentioned citation indexes indicates the authority of a scientist and helps in the realization of the main scientific purposes.
Web of Science (Сlarivate) – platform structure
Since the Web of Science database is a product of the Сlarivate company, this service is related to all developments of this company. Therefore, the Web of Science publication helps not only to increase the rating of a scientist, but also to increase the opportunities for international partnership and facilitate scientific searches, due to the Сlarivate network. Useful platforms for a scientist will be:
- Journal Citation Reports is detailed information about all scientometric characteristics of Web of Science publications.
- Endnote is a bibliographic manager that simplifies the search process for scientific materials and their citation in works.
- Publons is a platform for authors, reviewers and editors, due to which there is an opportunity to represent scientific works and a research CV.
- Web of Science My Research Assistant is a mobile application with database functions.
- InCites is a Web of Science analytical tool.
Web of Science article: how to prepare material for publication?
At the stage of submitting a scientific article to a journal, many researchers have many questions about how to choose the most appropriate publication and successfully pass the review procedure by reviewers and members of the editorial board.
It is necessary to pay attention to many important nuances, among them:
- Journal selection should not only be based on discipline or subject area. In most cases, these concepts are too broad. You should examine the specifics of the publication and the articles published there.
- Professional translation of a scientific article and its importance for the international scientific society. This moment significantly affects further citations in Web of Science, because the vast majority of journals are focused on English. Even if the work is published in another language, there is a high probability that this will negatively affect the material citation. Article citation requires a lot of effort. First of all, regarding the quality of work. How many citations are considered high? Usually, a study gets 1-2 citations, which is not a good enough result. Of course, you should focus on highly cited works with 50 or more citations. However, unfortunately, they are less than 1% of such works. Therefore, all factors at the stage of planning and writing of an article should be taken into account.
- Compliance with all requirements for the work execution: style, structure, correctness of citation and self-citation, metadata quality, execution of formulas, tables, figures, etc.
- Compliance with publication ethics.
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