SCD, full name: scientific citation database, short name: SCD, Chinese is: scientific citation database. It is a domestic citation database independently developed by the evaluation group of China University, and owns all intellectual property rights.

China Science Citation Database (CSCD).

Founded in 1989, it contains more than 1,000 Chinese and English scientific and technological core journals and excellent journals published in the fields of mathematics, physics, chemistry, astronomy, geoscience, biology, agriculture and forestry, medicine and health, engineering technology and environmental science. Up to now, 37 1429 1 papers and 38,942,322 citations have been accumulated from 1989.

Chinese scientific citation database is rich in content, scientific in structure and accurate in data. In addition to the general retrieval function, the system also provides a new index relationship-citation index. Using this function, users can quickly find out the details of a cited scientific and technological document from millions of citations, and can also retrieve several recently published related documents from an early important document or author's name, which has important reference value for the development and research of interdisciplinary and new disciplines. China Science Citation Database also provides a data link mechanism to support users to obtain full text.

Chinese scientific citation database has the characteristics of the oldest history, strong professionalism, accurate and standardized data, diverse retrieval methods, completeness and convenience. Since it was provided for use, it has been well received by users and is known as "SCI of China".