Essential Science Indicators (ESI) is a resource that enables researchers to conduct ongoing, quantitative analyses of research performance and track trends in science. Covering a multidisciplinary selection of 11,000+ journals from around the world, this in-depth analytical tool offers data for ranking scientists, institutions, countries, and journals.
This unique and comprehensive compilation of science performance statistics and science trends data is based on journal article publication counts and citation data from Thomson Scientific databases. Available as a ten-year rolling file, ESI covers 10 million articles in 22 specific fields of research, and is updated every two months.
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- Analyzes research performance of companies, institutions, countries, and journals
- Ranks top countries, journals, scientists, institutions and companies by field of research
- Identifies significant trends in the sciences and social sciences
- Enables users to evaluate potential employees, collaborators, reviewers, and peers
- Determines research output and impact in specific fields of research
- Links to Web of Science *
Additional features:
- Research Fronts — algorithmically derived topics reflecting research-intensive and breakthrough areas of current science
- Special Topics — An editorial feature that gives special attention to selected areas of research, with
- Highly Cited Papers — chosen from the most recent 10 years of data
- Hot Papers — focusing on
very recent papers (from the past two years) that
show an unusual rate of citation in the current period
- Both highly cited papers and hot papers are searchable
- Editorial Content — in-cites offers readers entry into a virtual community of scientists engaged in writing what is, in effect, the history of current and recent science
* Must subscribe to Web of Science |
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Provides a unique analytical tool for government policy makers, university or corporate research administrators, analysts, researchers, or information specialists in government, academia, industry, publishing, financial services, and research foundations
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