First, how to distinguish papers

First of all, to be clear, it is not that English articles are not SCI, nor is it that Chinese articles are not SCI.

1. The easiest way to judge whether an article is an SCI article is to search for journals on the science network. If the journal can be retrieved, then this article must be an SCI paper.

2. But not all English periodicals are included in SCI. Some new journals will not be included in SCI when they are first published. Some low-quality periodicals, even in English, will not be included in SCI, and many can only be included in EI. Will not be included in SCI.

3, so to judge whether an article is an SCI paper, you really need to do a formal search to know. This is why many schools' evaluation, even the national scholarship evaluation of the Ministry of Education, require school libraries to issue SCI retrieval certificates, so direct retrieval on the Web of SCIence is the most direct evidence.

Second, matters needing attention

In addition, it should be reminded that sometimes an article is published in SCI journals and can be retrieved on SCI, but the article is only online and cannot be retrieved on the Science Network. Strictly speaking, this SCI article has not published this SCI paper at this time.

But it can also be indirectly proved that this SCI paper is not online through the retrieval certificate that the journal is a SCI journal and the acceptance certificate of the article. Moreover, in fact, SCI papers are not only in English. As far as I know, some Chinese periodicals, Korean, Russian, German and French documents can be retrieved on the Science Network, but most famous periodicals are mainly in English.

Generally speaking, if it is a well-known publishing house, such as Wiley, ACS, RSC, IEEE, etc. Even if the journal was not included in SCI when it was first published, it will be included sooner or later. So I want to read SCI papers, choose journals and try to choose well-known publishing houses.

Introduction of SCI and identification method of SCI contents

I. Introduction to SCI

The full name of SCI is Science Citation Index, which is a world-famous periodical literature retrieval tool published by institute for scientific information (ISI). It contains about 3,500 kinds of core journals in the fields of mathematics, science, chemistry, agriculture, forestry, medicine, life science, astronomy, geography, environment, materials, engineering technology and so on.

Second, the identification methods included in SCI

1. Check whether the journal is included in the SCI: SCIence website web.

Open the website: Select Database: Science Core Collection Network.

2. Paste the title of the paper, select the topic and search.

3. If the retrieval results can be obtained, it means that the paper can be included in SCI. If not, the paper has not been retrieved by SCI.

4. Zoning can be queried by WOS and LETPUB, or by Chinese Academy of Sciences and JCR.

5. Check whether the journal is included in EI: Website Project Village. Paste the title of the paper.