For years, ISI has indexed these citations. Now, using these citations, ISI has identified influential researchers who have contributed to the progress of science through their insight and accomplishments. This free-access, expert gateway is the first community that will include the achievement records of these preeminent researchers in each of 21 subject categories. Initially, it will grow to include 250 researchers in each category. Only ISI is in the position to identify the impact of these top researchers, because only ISI has indexed the most influential scientific and technical journals from 1945 onwards.
Researchers can access an integrated environment that offers cited reference searching.
This unique capability relies on links the authors establish as they acknowledge the influence of prior work and discovery via citations. In the ISI Web of Science users can navigate forward, backward, and through the literature to uncover relevant research and trace its influence on the worldwide scientific community. Within this timeframe, nearly 19 million articles or source records were processed. These included approximately 120 million cited references and just fewer than 5 million unique author names. Citation counts include all journals that cite the published work, allowing a researcher in one category to be credited for their influence in other fields.