ABOUT ScienceWatch.com
ScienceWatch.comSM provides a behind-the-scenes
look at the scientists, journals, institutions, nations, and papers
selected by
Essential
Science IndicatorsSM from
Thomson Reuters
and other products of the
Research
Services Group. Read interviews and first-person essays about
people in a wide variety of fields and professions.
View selected overall and field rankings, pertinent statistics on
the principles behind the data, the latest version of the database,
including new entrants and Rising
Stars in the rankings, information on
field definitions,
citation
thresholds, and
graphing
trends.
ScienceWatch.com (except Sci-Bytes) is updated biweekly,
on the first business day of the month, and approximately two weeks
after. Updated weekly is
Sci-Bytes: a summary of
what’s new in research.
Special Topics, in the Analyses
section of ScienceWatch.com is designed to complement
Essential Science Indicators in providing citation
analyses and commentary for selected scientific research areas that
have experienced notable recent advances or are of special current
interest.
Each topic is prefaced with a description of its relation to the
main Essential Science Indicators rankings and the
methodology used to assemble the data from the Essential
Science Indicators database. A new topic is added monthly. The
data presented for each topic include citation rankings for
scientists, institutions, nations, and journals, The top 20 ten-
and two-year papers are presented, as well as corresponding
Research Front Map comprised of papers in the core front. Most
special topics also feature interviews and essays by prominent
scientists in the area.
ScienceWatch.com also serves as the information source for
Essential Science Indicators. See
Methodology.
Should you have further questions, please
contact us.
MORE ABOUT
SCIENCEWATCH.COM
ScienceWatch.com
provides a comprehensive, open Web resource for science metrics and
analysis. This website combines the newest Science Watch
newsletter material, along with regularly updated data, analysis,
interviews, and commentary drawn from www.in-cites.com and ESI Special
Topics (www.esi-topics.com).
Bringing all these resources together in one easily accessible website
gives the scientific community an ideal, convenient location for keeping up
with the latest developments in science – what the leading scientists
have to say, how the hottest topics are affecting research and everyday
life, where the most significant research is taking place, and much more.
"Sciencewatch.com uses data from the Thomson Reuters Web of
Science and also our Essential Sciences Indicators database,
but then adds another dimension," says Dr. Henry Small, Chief Scientist at
Thomson Reuters. "The database provides an unbiased way to survey the
scientific landscape and spot features that are newsworthy and significant
— new topics, new developments, new trends. Then we dig deeper, and
interview the scientists involved. So when you access sciencewatch.com,
you're accessing the scientific community — and discovering their
perspectives and their insights."
