1.SCI: scientific citation index.
ISI (institute for scientific information) selected 3,300 core journals, indexed them and incorporated them into SCI. SCI covers more than 100 disciplines, mainly involving the following fields: agriculture, biology and environmental science; Engineering technology and applied science; Medicine and life sciences; Physics and chemistry; Behavioral science. The collected data grows at the rate of 600,000 new records and more than 9 million citations every year.
2.EI: engineering index.
It is a comprehensive retrieval tool in the field of engineering technology, edited and published by the American Engineering Information Center, covering all engineering branches in the world, such as civil engineering, energy, environment, geography and bioengineering. Electrical, electronic and control engineering; Chemical, mining, metal and fuel engineering; Machinery, automation, nuclear energy, aviation engineering; Computers, artificial intelligence and industrial robots.
3.ISTP: scientific index &; Technical meeting minutes)
It is one of the important databases published by ISI company, which specially includes all kinds of important conferences in the field of natural science and technology in the world, including conferences, symposiums, research conferences, seminars, press conferences and so on. The number of meetings received is above 1 100, and the topics involved are basically the same as those of SCI.
Other databases related to the three retrieval tools:
1.SSCI: social science citation index.
It contains 65,438+0,400 papers from major social science journals in the world, covering 50 disciplines, including social science and behavioral science, anthropology, archaeology, commerce, finance, economy, education, geography and history, library science and information science, law, language, politics, marketing, statistics, urban development, etc.
There are 6.5438+0.25 million records every year, which can not only retrieve the cited articles, but also reveal all the references in the original text, and obtain some related documents accordingly.
2. A&HCI: Art and Humanities Index (Arts & amp； Humanities citation index)
It contains more than 65,438+065,438+000 periodicals in 25 disciplines of arts and humanities, and other 7,000 periodicals related to arts and humanities in ISI database, covering various arts fields, such as vision, music, performance, literature, science and technology, history and religion.
There are also various aspects of humanities, including archaeology, architecture, art, Asian studies, classical works, dance, movies, history, humanities, linguistics, literature, music, philosophy, poetry, radio, religion, television and drama. 654.38+10,000 records are added every year.
3. Index of Journals of Social Sciences and Humanities.
Established in 1979, with data collected from 19? Year-to-date; The data covers the conference literature in social science, art, humanities and other fields. These subjects include philosophy, psychology, sociology, economics, management, art, literature, history, public health and other fields.
About CSSCI and CSCD:
1.CSSCI is a Chinese social science citation index (CSSCI for short), which is a database developed by China Social Science Research and Evaluation Center of Nanjing University. It is used to retrieve the essays and literature citations in the field of social sciences in China.
The subjects involved include Marxism-Leninism, philosophy, psychology, statistics, sociology, management, ethnology, politics, international relations, law, economics, journalism and communication, education, library and information science, physical education, linguistics, literature, art, history, archaeology, geography, environmental science and other social and humanities fields.
2.CSCD, namely China Science Citation Database (CSCD), is a multi-functional large-scale database developed by the Document Information Center of China Academy of Sciences with the support of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and China Academy of Sciences. CSCD was founded in 1989, and accumulated 500,000 source databases and 300,000 reference data.