Essential Science Indicators Research Areas
Journal Coverage
Article counts for Essential Science IndicatorsTM are derived from 11,855 journals indexed in Web of Science Core Collection (Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index only) over a 10-year period. Citation counts for these articles are derived from journals indexed in Web of Science Core Collection (Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts & Humanities Citation Index)
Each journal is assigned to one of 22 research fields. In ESI, a journal can be assigned to only one field. Journals such as Science and Nature are categorized as multidisciplinary since they publish research in many different fields. As a result, papers published in these multidisciplinary journals are assigned to a field based on the representation of the cited journals. For example, if the majority of cited references in the paper are to neuroscience journals, the paper is then categorized as neuroscience.
Journal List
The master journal list, which comprises all active journal titles eligible for inclusion in Essential Science IndicatorsTM, has been updated as of January 12, 2017, to cover a 10-year plus 10-month period, January 1, 2006 – October 31, 2016. Data is updated bi-monthly (six times a year). This is the fifth bi-monthly period of 2016.
This master journal list will be updated regularly. The current extraction date is December 1, 2016.
Item Selection
Papers are defined as regular scientific articles and review articles . Letters to the editor, corrections, and abstracts are excluded.
A Note About ESI Scheme
When the Essential Science Indicators scheme is selected, document totals will only include those articles and reviews from Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Science Citation Index, as only these two categories are mapped to Essential Science Indicators. Excluded from results are publications from Arts & Humanities, Conference Proceedings Citation Index, and Book Citation Index.