
What is International Scientific Institute (Thomson ISI)?
- ISI stands for Institute for Scientific Information (lSI)
- It was founded by Dr. Eugene Garfield in 1960. It is now part of Thomson Reuters company, Philadelphia, USA
- ISI covers thousands of academic journals which are available via ISI’s Web of Knowledge (part of web of Science) database service
- Garfield known to be the founder of the science citation index (SCI), a citation index of which journals are ranked systematically according to number of citing by authors termed as impact factor (IF).
- A yearly journal citation report (JCR) is therefore established and published by Thomson ISI stating journals ranking according to their impact factor.
Top Three ISI-Indexing Services
- Science Citation Index (SCI) or Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)
- Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)
- Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI)
- ISI merupakan akronim bagi Institute of Scientific Information (lSI)
- Ia diasaskan oleh Dr. Eugene Garfield pada tahun 1960. Ia kini menjadi sebahagian daripada syarikat Thomson Reuters, yang berpengkalan di Philadelphia, Amerika Syarikat
- ISI meliputi beribu-ribu jurnal akademik yang boleh didapati melalui pangkalan data ISI, Web of Knowledge (sebahagian daripada Web of Science).
- Garfield merupakan pengasas Science Citation Index (SCI), indeks sitasi (citation) yang mana jurnalnya disusun secara sistematik mengikut bilangan yang dicite oleh penulis/penyelidik. Ia dikenali sebagai Impact Factor (IF).
- Laporan tahunan yang dikenali sebagai journal citation report (JCR) diwujudkan dan diterbitkan oleh Thomson ISI yang menentukan kedudukan jurnal mengikut impact factor (IF) mereka.


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