SCI, ISTP and Ei databases are three foreign retrieval tools often mentioned in library science and information science.
SCI, namely "scientific citation index", is an important periodical abstract index database in the field of basic theory of natural science. It was founded in 196 1 by eugene garfield, director of institute for scientific information (1925.9. 15). With it, you can search the contents of mathematics, physics, chemistry, astronomy, biology, medicine, agricultural SCIence, computer science, materials science and other disciplines from 65438.1000000001sci, and sci is also regarded as an important basis for making discipline development plans and ranking academic achievements by academic circles at home and abroad.
ISTP, an index of proceedings of scientific and technological conferences, was founded in 1978 and compiled by institute for scientific information, USA, which mainly includes internationally famous scientific and technological conferences. Its data include agriculture, environmental science, biochemistry, molecular biology, biotechnology, medicine, engineering, computer science, chemistry, physics and other disciplines. From 1990-2003, ISTP and ISSHP (ISSHP will be mentioned later) * * * collected the information of nearly 3 million papers from 60,000 meetings.
Ei, the "engineering index", was founded in 1884 and edited and published by Elsevier Engineering Information Company, which mainly includes papers in the field of engineering technology (mainly papers in scientific journals and conference proceedings). The data covers nuclear technology, bioengineering, transportation, chemical and technological engineering, lighting and optical technology, agricultural engineering and food technology, computer and data processing, applied physics, electronics and communication, control engineering, civil engineering, mechanical engineering, material engineering, petroleum, aerospace, automobile engineering and other disciplines.
Introduce other databases related to the three retrieval tools.
SSCI, namely "Social Science Citation Index", was founded in 1969, and the data collected has been from 1956 until now. It is an important periodical abstract index database in the field of social science. The data covers social science fields such as history, politics, law, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, library and information science and public health.
A&HCI, namely "Citation Index of Arts and Humanities", was founded in 1976, and the data has been collected since 1975. This is an important periodical abstract index database in the fields of art and humanities. The data covers social science fields such as archaeology, architecture, art, literature, philosophy, religion and history.
ISSHP, namely "Index of Proceedings of Social Science and Humanities Conference", was founded in 1979, and its data covers conference documents in the fields of social science, art and humanities. These subjects include philosophy, psychology, sociology, economics, management, art, literature, history, public health and other fields.
Two. How to use the three retrieval tools and other databases to retrieve related subject literature?
1. Using SCI, SSCI, A & amp； Using HCI database to retrieve related subject literature
(1) Enter the search keyword in the subject search portal to obtain the relevant subject documents.
(2) By inputting the retrieval keywords into the subject retrieval portal, and then further analyzing the retrieval results, relevant subject documents are obtained.
(3) By inputting the search keyword in the search entry of the topic and the source title at the same time, the relevant topic documents are obtained.
For example, enter "nano *" in the title and "artificial cell blood substitutes and im mobile biotechnology or biomedical materials and engineering or biological materials or cells" in the source title. Using the above retrieval formula, we can retrieve the "Materials Science, Biological Materials" 102 articles included in the online edition of SCI in 2002.
2. Using ISTP database to retrieve related subject literature.
You can search by combining topics, source titles and meetings.
3. Using Ei database to retrieve related subject literature.
Example: Search for documents containing "pipe" in the medical field.
If you only use "pipeline" to search in all fields, you will hit more than 40 thousand records; Even if the search in the title is restricted at the same time, the result is more than 10000, and the data redundancy is too great. At this time, you can consider restricting retrieval from the perspective of discipline:
Firstly, medical categories are retrieved from Ei thesaurus:
Medicine: 46 1.6, medical treatment: 46 1.7, medical imaging: 46 1. 1, medical problems,
Medical supplies: 462. 1, medical calculation: 723.5, medical diagnosis, medical education,
Medical equipment and medical monitoring: 462.2
Use "expert search": (46 1. 1 wncl or 46 1.6 wncl or 46 1.7 wncl or 462. 1 wncl or 723.5 wncl) and (pipeline wnti). Hit more than 500 records, because 723.5 is related to computer applications, and many hit records have nothing to do with medicine, so we can consider removing this search. The result is satisfactory.
4. Use SCOPUS database to search related subject literature.
This database provides discipline restrictions, so it is relatively easy.
Three. How to use three retrieval tools and other databases to retrieve papers?
1. Use three retrieval tools and other databases to retrieve the paper collections of units/collectives.
Take Tsinghua University as an example.
(1) Use SCI database to retrieve the essays of units/collectives.
(Tsinghua University or Tsinghua University or Tsinghua University or Huaqing University or 100084) Same (People's Republic of China (PRC) or Beijing or Beijing)
(2) Using ISTP database to retrieve the essays of units/collectives.
(Tsinghua University or Tsinghua University or Tsinghua University or Huaqing University or 100084) Same (People's Republic of China (PRC) or Beijing or Beijing)
(3) Using Ei database to retrieve the essays of units/collectives.
Use author index or use complex search, but the effect is not good.
(4) Using SCOPUS database to retrieve the essays of units/collectives.
AFFIL( 100084 and Tsinghua)
(5) Use CSSCI, China Periodical Network and China Sci-tech Periodical Database to search the papers collected by the units/collectives.
All three databases provide institutional search portals, where you can find unit/collective essays.
2. Use three retrieval tools and other databases to retrieve personal papers.
Take teacher Zhou Yuanxiang's thesis as an example (see appendix):
(1) Using SCI database to retrieve personal papers.
Author's literature (articles or reports) 104. In these articles, his collaborators include the following eight people: N. Yoshimura, Guan Zhicheng, H. Kato, Yan Ping, Liang, Li Guangfan, M. Nifuku and Tuzuozhu.
The construction of search formula: (Zhou X or Yun Xiang Z) and (Yoshimura N or Guan zc or Zhicheng G or Kato H or Yan P or Ping Y or Liang xd or L or Li gf or Guang Fan L or Ni Fuku M or Sasaki A or Du S).
Enter the above search formula in the author field and find 9 records. After checking with the papers provided by the author, it is found that these nine records are all the author's own papers.
Several documents were completed by the author alone, and these documents need to be handled separately.
(2) Using ISTP database to retrieve personal papers.
Similar to the retrieval of SCI database, the same retrieval formula and method can be used.
Enter the above search formula in the author field and find 14 records. After checking with the papers provided by the author, it is found that these 14 records are all the author's own papers. 2 more than the 12 that the author checked in advance.
(3) Using Ei database to retrieve personal papers.
Input in advanced search (the author indexing of Ei database is very different from SCI: Ei generally needs to write all surnames and first names, while SCI requires all surnames and first names to use the first letter);
(Zhou, Yang, Chen, Chen, Yang, Zhou, Zhou, Yang, Chen, Chen, Yang, Chen, Liang, xd wn AU or Liang, xd wn AU or Liang, Liang wn AU or Liang, wn AU or Li, gf wn AU or Li, gf wn AU or Li, gf wn AU or Guang Fan.
Hit 19 records, which is 8 different from the 27 records retrieved by readers themselves.
After investigation, among the eight missing articles, seven were written by "Zhou, Y" and one was "Zhou, Yuan Xing". Therefore, using the above retrieval formula will miss some records; So we should modify the retrieval type again:
Modify the above search formula to: (Zhou, y * wnau or Yuan Xiang, z.oryuanxiang, Zhou) and (Yoshimura wnau or Guan, z.c.wnau or Guan, z.-c.wnau or Zhi Cheng, g wnau or Guan, Zhi Cheng wnau or Guan, zc wn AU or Katoh wn AU or Yan, p wn AU or Yan. Yan wn AU or beam, x.d. wn AU or beam, x.d. wn AU or beam wn AU or beam, wn AU or, l. wn AU or Li, gf wn AU or Li, G. F. wn AU or Li, G.F. Wnau or Guang Fan, L. Wnau or Guang Fan, Li Wnau or Li, Guang Fan Wnau or Nifu Kunao.
It should be noted that using the first retrieval formula, the author's literature can basically be retrieved accurately. Therefore, using the second retrieval formula, considering the possible small errors in the indexing process of Ei database data, we can basically retrieve all the author's documents included in Ei database without omission.
(4) Using SCOPUS database to retrieve personal papers.
(5) Using CSSCI, China Journal Network and China Sci-tech Journal Database to retrieve personal papers.
4. How to retrieve cited papers?
1. Citation of search units/collective papers
(1) Using SCI, SSCI, A &；; HCI searches the citations of papers.
Search from the collection point of view, for example:
(Tsinghua University or Tsinghua University or Tsinghua University or Huaqing University or 100084) Same (People's Republic of China (PRC) or Beijing or Beijing)
(2) Using SCOPUS to retrieve paper citations.
(3) Using China Journal Network to retrieve the cited papers.
Remarks: neither CSSCI nor China Statistical Analysis Database of Scientific Papers Citations provide the items for searching paper citations by unit/collective.
2. Search for quotations from personal papers.
(1) Using SCI, SSCI, A &；; On the citation of HCI retrieval papers from the perspective of inclusion, examples;
(2) Using SCOPUS to retrieve paper citations.
(3) Using CSSCI, statistical analysis database of sci-tech papers in China and China Journal Network to retrieve paper citations.
Verb (abbreviation of verb) guide to the submission of core journals
1. Journal evaluation and evaluation tools
At present, there are two views on periodical evaluation in domestic academic circles: one is the core periodical evaluation method, and the other is the gradient method of periodical comprehensive evaluation. The former is called "0/ 1 rule" and the latter is called "comprehensive rule". Both of them are based on the traditional law of information science literature dispersion and citation analysis. Only "comprehensive law" covers "0/ 1 law" and emphasizes the concept of gradient. The tools of periodical evaluation are represented by JCR (Journal Citation Report) abroad, and the main contents of Chinese core journals, citation reports of China sci-tech journals and comprehensive citation reports of China academic journals are represented at home. The abstract of Chinese core journals and the citation report of China sci-tech journals are the results of "0/ 1 rule" evaluation, while the comprehensive citation report of China academic journals is the result of "comprehensive rule" evaluation.
2. Definition of connotation and extension of core journals at home and abroad.
The concept of core journals can be summarized in one sentence: high-level and influential journals in a certain discipline. It is not difficult to see that core journals have two main characteristics: one is discipline and the other is academic.
Generally speaking, core journals are defined in a certain discipline, but not necessarily in another discipline (of course, core journals of comprehensive disciplines, such as Nature and Science, are exceptions).
The academic nature of core journals is mainly determined by journal influence factors. There are two statistical methods about impact factors: one is three-year statistical method, and the other is mid-term statistical method. According to the three-year statistical method, the result is what we often call the impact factor (if: the ratio of the number of citations obtained by a journal in the third year to the total number of papers in the first two years of the journal). ), according to the mid-term statistical method, the result is called "mid-term impact factor" (MIF: the ratio of cited times to the total number of papers when the cumulative number of cited times of a journal reaches 1/2).
3. How to contribute to core journals at home and abroad
Please refer to JCR (including science and technology edition and social science edition) for international publications, choose the subject category you are looking for, rank according to the influencing factors, and choose the appropriate publications. Then, find the address or website information of this publication on the website of ulich International Journal Guide, and log on to the website of this publication to find online submission information.
For domestic publications, please refer to the outline of Chinese core journals and the citation report of China sci-tech journals, select the subject category you want, and then select the appropriate publications according to their influence. For submission address information, please refer to the reference book "Overview of China Core Journals" or log on to "China Journal Network" to find publication submission information.
Matters needing attention in the process of submitting articles to core journals;
(1) Try not to contribute.
(2) The unit signature should be standardized. When you write about Tsinghua University, you should also write about Beijing, People's Republic of China (PRC). This point should be paid special attention to in SCI.
Journals included in the intransitive verb SCI
SCI contains about 3,500 core journals published all over the world in the fields of mathematics, science, chemistry, agriculture, forestry, medicine, life sciences, astronomy, geography, environment, materials and engineering technology. Institute for scientific information, USA, selects journals through its strict criteria and evaluation procedures, with a slight increase or decrease every year, so that the literature collected by SCI can comprehensively cover the most important and influential research achievements in the world.
ISI refers to the most influential research achievements, which means that a large number of documents reporting these achievements are cited by other documents. Therefore, as a retrieval tool, SCI has set up a unique "citation index", which is contrary to the conventional practice of other retrieval tools to retrieve documents by subject or classification. That is, through the reference of the current document to the previous document, the correlation between documents and the influence of the previous document on the current document are explained.
The above characteristics of SCI make SCI not only a document retrieval tool, but also a basis for scientific research evaluation. The total number of papers collected by SCI in scientific research institutions reflects the scientific research level of the whole institution, especially the basic research; The number of papers collected and cited by SCI reflects his research ability and academic level.
SCI is published in the form of printed matter, CD-ROM and online database, and now the Web database on the Internet is also being published. Individuals can search and find the catalogue of sci periodicals through the Internet, and the relevant links are as follows:
Journals included in SCI (in alphabetical order):
/cgi-bin/jrnlst/jlresults.cgi？ PC=K
Journals included in SCI (by classification):
/cgi-bin/jrnlst/jlsubcatg.cgi？ PC=K
Seven. EI submission guide
In order to adapt to the rapid development of science and technology in China and provide convenience for Chinese scientists to contribute to EI journals, this guide collects the latest contribution information of nearly 1900 EI journals, including mailing address, telephone number, e-mail address and website address.
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(1) This catalogue is arranged according to the book classification of China Academy of Sciences.
(2) The description format of periodical items from various sources is as follows:
375C0005 ① ISSN 0306-4573 ②
Information processing and information technology. Management. ③
1963.6/yr ④ Editor: Tefko Saracevic, School of Communication Information and Library Studies, Rutgers University 4
Huntington Street, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903, USA. ⑤
E-mail:j.rigg@elsvier.co.uk
http://www.elsevier.nl/inca/publications/store/2/4/4/⑥
Information processing and management publishes research papers, reviews and newsletters on information processing, dissemination, storage, utilization, retrieval and management, including the application of computer and automation technology in library information work and information policy. ⑦
Note: ① Newspaper serial number of China Library Association.
② International standard serial number
③ Name of publication
(4) year and period of publication (or annual number of issues)
⑤ Name, address, telephone number and fax number of editorial department or editorial department or publishing agency.
⑥ E-mail address and website address
⑦ Translation name and content introduction (Chinese or English)
(3) Explanation of some abbreviations in the guide.
Issn: international standard serial number.
Publisher: publisher
Catalogue of foreign sci-tech periodicals included in EI
Catalogue of China Sci-tech Journals Collected by EI