The Healthcare & Science business of Thomson Reuters, US, has announced that King Fahd University For Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM) has purchased Web of Science data back to 1900. KFUPM is the first university in the Saudi Arabia Consortia, and in the Gulf region, to purchase more than a century of vital data.
Web of Science claims to be the world's largest citation database, providing researchers, administrators, faculty and students access to more than 11,000 actively covered, high impact journals and 110,000 conference proceedings, totaling 45 million documents and more than 1 billion cited references.
Since KFUPM purchased Web of Science in 2004, the number of articles published by university researchers has increased 15 percent between 2004 and 2008, and the number of citations to the works of KFUPM researchers has increased 90 percent during the same period. The addition of Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index and back year editions of Arts & Humanities Citation Index will now provide users access to millions of additional source items and cited references.
KFUPM is one of the Gulf region's leading universities and is highly regarded for its excellence in science and engineering programmes. It leads universities in the region in terms of the articles published in by its faculty and researchers, specifically in the areas of engineering and pure sciences.
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