Academic institutions can assess their research performance relative to other colleges and universities, make a case for securing research funding, as well as identify and plan to recruit the most highly regarded researchers worldwide. Governments, researchers, corporations and journal publishers can use ISI Essential Science Indicators to determine their impact on science within a field, and the impact of other countries, colleagues, competitors and journals. This invaluable resource has far reaching implications for evaluating performance, securing funding, and planning for recruitment. Adding to the strength of ISI Essential Science Indicators is the seamless links from an evaluated document in ISI Essential Science Indicators to the bibliographic and citation information contained within the ISI Web of Science , and out to full-text. Currently, nearly 6 million record links are available between the ISI Web of Science and the full-text documents of journal articles and other databases.
Citations are a form of intellectual debt.
For decades, many scholars have utilized citation data for more than retrieval. They have found this information vital for analytical purposes. ISI Essential Science Indicators compiles and ranks citations to form the basis for these essential science performance statistics and trends data, and harnesses the strength of the Internet to deliver this invaluable information to the desktop. ISI is headquartered in Philadelphia, PA, with offices worldwide. It is a technologically advanced company, able to respond to the markets it serves with sophisticated and efficient resources.