The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters and the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), have announced an initiative to expand the global imprint of the region's scientific research by integrating content within the Korean Citation Index (KCI) into the Web of Science™, the premier search and discovery platform for the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities.
Launched by NRF in 2008, the KCI content is now available within the Web of Science as the KCI Korean Journal Database, which has increased the number of papers produced in South Korea (from 2002 to 2012) on the platform by 127 percent, from 20,755 to 47,066 articles. The new data set seamlessly connects to the leading indices within the Web of Science enabling researchers worldwide to review and analyze the regional content alongside top-tier international literature.
Most universities and research institutions in South Korea rely on the KCI when evaluating their researchers and scholarly works. According to NRF President Dr. Chung Min Keun, despite their outstanding quality, Korean journals are not known outside this region and are mostly published by local academic societies. By collaborating with Thomson Reuters, NRF hopes to increase the global impact of Korean research and international exposure of Korean journals, and encourage more scholarly exchange between South Korea and the rest of the world.
