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What is Web of Knowledge?

An intelligent research platform that provides access to the world's leading citation databases, including powerful cited reference searching, the Analyze Tool, over 100 years of comprehensive backfile and citation data.

• 23,000 journals 23 million patents
• 110,000 conference proceedings
• 9,000 Web sites
• 2 million chemical structures
• 100+ years of backfiles
• 87+ million source items
• 700 million cited references
• 256 scientific disciplines

Why use Web of Knowledge?

Citations symbolize the association of scientific ideas. Web of Knowledge uniquely indexes both cited and citing works - which enables the user to make explicit links between current research and prior scientific works.

• Use cited reference data to move both backward and forward in time to track and determine research influence.
• Use citation analysis to find influential authors who are publishing high-impact research in your field, discover important author and/or institutional research collaborations, determine where the most impactful research is being published.
• Analyze research from high-impact journalsin the Sciences, Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities, and seamlessly link to full-text articles

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• Nearly 18,000 peer-reviewed journals from more than 5,000 publishers, including coverage of
  • 16,500 peer-reviewed journals (inc > 1200 Open Access journals)
  • 600 trade publications
  • 350 book series
  • Extensive conference coverage (3,6 million conference papers)
• 38 million records, of which
  • 19 million records include references going back to 1996 (78% include references)
  • 19 million pre-1996 records go back as far as 1823
• Results from 435 million scientific web pages
• 23 million patent records from 5 patent offices
• "Articles-in-Press" from over 3,000 journals
• Seamless links to full-text articles and other library resources
• Innovative tools that give an at-a-glance overview of search results and refine them to the most relevant hits
• Alerts to keep you up-to-date on new articles matching your search query, or by favorite author

Scopus is the easiest way to get to relevant content fast. Tools to sort, refine and quickly identify results help you focus on the outcome of your work. You can spend less time mastering databases and more time on research.