Today, the international career of a scientist is impossible without publication in rating publications. In turn, the journal rating determines the availability of indexing in global databases. Let us consider the most influential databases in the scientific world.
What is an international scientometric database?
The International Scientometric Database is a global system for recording and analyzing scientific papers and citations. These services contain information about scientific researchers, journals, conferences and other aspects of scientific communication.
What is a scientometric database for?
Researchers from all over the world can track scientific trends, familiarize themselves with the scientific works of leading scientists, and search for co-authors for future publications. The service also serves as a search engine for analyzing large amounts of information, scientific publications and metrics that are used for comprehensive analysis of scientific activity of individual scientists, journals and organizations.
The scientometric database is the main tool for tracking the citability of scientific publications.
The most authoritative international databases:
Official Website: https://www.scopus.com/
Scopus is the largest interdisciplinary abstract and citation database providing access to peer-reviewed scientific articles, books and conference proceedings.
Scopus offers state-of-the-art tools for data analysis and visualization.
The scientometric indicators - citation index and h-index - are used to assess the influence of scientific publications and authors.
At the time of writing, the platform holds:
> more than 94 million publications
> more than 19.6 million author profiles
> more than 7,000 publishers
> more than 2.4 billion citations
Official website: https://clarivate.com/cis/solutions/web-of-science/
Web of Science (WoS) is a global database for searching books, scientific journals and conference proceedings. WoS is considered the most reliable source of global citations of peer-reviewed scientific literature since 1900.
The multidisciplinary service combines regional, special and patent indexes into the original Web of Science Core Collections: SCIE (Science Citation Index Expanded), SSCI (Social Science Citation Index), AHCI (Arts and Humanities Citation Index), ESCI (Emerging Sources Citation Index), CPCI (Conference Proceedings Citation Index), BKCI (Book Citation Index), CCR and IC (Chemical Sciences Citation Index).
At the time of writing, the platform holds:
> more than 74.8 million publications
> more than 28 million author profiles
> more than 21,000 publishers
> more than 1.5 billion citations
Official website: https://scholar.google.com.ua/
Google Scholar is one of the largest search engines indexing scholarly publications by scholars from around the world. The database provides free access to articles, books and dissertations. Google Scholar is widely used by researchers to search for scientific literature and citations. The impact and contribution of scientific publications can be assessed using the platform's metrics: Hirsch index, i10-index, citation index.
Reliable data on the number of publications in the service are not available, nevertheless, the portal is considered the largest in academic circles. It is known that Google Academy covers more than 88% of all scientific publications in English posted on the Internet.
Official website: https://indexcopernicus.com/index.php/pl/
Index Copernicus is an international scientometric database headquartered in Poland. Less stringent requirements for scientific articles, compared to those set by Scopus and Web of Science, have made the platform popular in academic circles. The service uses a unique metric for measuring the influence and citation of journals - ICV (Index Copernicus Value).
Currently, the database holds more than 45 thousand scientific journals. Scientists from 150 countries visit the service online every month.
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