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Citation Databases

Citation databases (AKA Citation indexes) are specialized bibliometric and scientometric tools that track citations of published academic texts.

Citation databases mainly contain bibliographic records, including abstracts, citations of works by authors from around the world, and even full texts, if the source periodicals are subscribed to.

Some full texts are available through Google Scholar or Open Access.

These databases can be used to partially evaluate scientific results achieved in the Czech Republic. The most important databases are Web of Science and Scopus.

WEB OF SCIENCE

Web of Science is a platform for accessing the world-renowned citation database of the same name. It is based on a multidisciplinary Core Collection containing citation indexes:

 Journal Citation Indexes

  • Science Citation Index Expanded (1945-present)
  • Social Sciences Citation Index (1977- present)
  • Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1977- present)
  • Emerging Sources Citation Index (2005- present)

Conference Proceedings

  • Conference Proceedings Citation Index – Science (1990- present)
  • Conference Proceedings Citation Index – Social Sciences & Humanities (1990- present)

Book Citation Index

  • Book Citation Index – Science (2005- present)
  • Book Citation Index – Social Sciences & Humanities (2005- present)

Chemical Indexes

  • Current Chemical Reactions (1985- present)
  • Index Chemicus (1993- present)

Web of Science also provides access to the Journal Citation Reports database, which is the only one in the world to include the Impact Factor.

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JOURNAL CITATION REPORTS (JCR)

Journal Citation Reports is a unique citation database of impacted journals indexed in Web of Science. It contains statistical data and quantitative tools for comparing scientific and professional journals. It uses the so-called Impact Factor, which can be used to estimate the reputation of scientific journals.

SCOPUS

Scopus is a highly regarded citation database providing access to bibliographic information, including abstracts and citation references, from numerous international scientific journals and conferences across a wide range of academic disciplines.

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