Italian National Research Council selects Thomson Reuters new Web of Knowledge platform for 108 member institutions - June 9, 2011
Business information provider Thomson Reuters, US, has announced that the Italian National Research Council (CNR) has selected the new Web of Knowledge platform as an important source of citation data and analysis for its 108 member institutions. CNR is one of the largest public research organisations… Read More
Springer publication listed in Science Citation Index-Expanded - May 18, 2011
Research analytics and decision support citation data services provider Thomson Reuters, US, has announced that Building Simulation, an international journal co-published by Springer and Tsinghua University Press, is now listed in the Science Citation Index-Expanded (SCI-E). The quarterly journal has been covered in the index from… Read More
Thomson Reuters launches new Web of Knowledge with better functionality and features - April 4, 2011
Information services provider Thomson Reuters, US, has announced the launch of the new Web of Knowledge. This latest release of the leading source of scholarly research and citation data delivers better functionality and new features. Launched more than a decade ago, Web of Knowledge has… Read More
Asia Pacific dominates chemistry research output, says Thomson Reuters analysis - March 28, 2011
Information services provider Thomson Reuters, US, has released an analysis, according to which the Asia Pacific region has become the dominant producer of research papers in chemistry. The region contributed about 43 percent of research papers published in the internationally influential journals indexed by Thomson Reuters.… Read More
2010 rankings of Asia-Pacific research institutions as per Nature Publishing Index released - March 25, 2011
Science journal Nature has published a supplement this week on the 2010 rankings of research institutions and countries in the Asia-Pacific based on the Nature Publishing Index, a measure of the output of research articles in Nature journals. This was announced by Nature Editor-in-Chief Philip Campbell. The rankings in… Read More
US dominates Nature Publishing Index Global Top 50 - March 24, 2011
Institutions in the US dominate a new ranking of the world's top 50 institutions. The Nature Publishing Index Global Top 50 ranks the top 50 institutions in the world, according to their output of primary research articles in Nature research journals in 2010. Launched as a beta website at
Academic and government institutes in Spain gain access to Elsevier’s SciVerse Scopus database - March 15, 2011
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT) has selected its SciVerse Scopus database to assist academic and government institutes throughout Spain in the tracking and analysing of research. FECYT is a public foundation that supports the Spanish Ministry… Read More
Journal of Nanobiotechnology accepted for tracking by Thomson Reuters - March 11, 2011
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that the Journal of Nanobiotechnology has been accepted by Thomson Reuters for Impact Factor tracking. The journal is now tracked from Volume 9 (2011) and the high quality of the content is reflected by a predicted Impact Factor… Read More
Semantico deploys Shibboleth 2 compliance for Koninklijke Brill - January 27, 2011
Online publishing services provider Semantico Ltd, UK, has implemented Shibboleth 2 compliance for academic publisher Koninklijke Brill. Compliance with the latest Shibboleth release covers Brill Online, Brill Linguistic Bibliographies, Brill Nijhoff and Brill eBooks. Alongside the upgrade, Koninklijke Brill has extended Shibboleth coverage across Europe.… Read More
Two-thirds of Wiley-Blackwell’s journal portfolio now has an Impact Factor - November 22, 2010
Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced that two thirds of its journals (68.8% and 1,013 titles) have an Impact Factor, according to the revised Thomson ISI 2009 Journal Citation Reports (JCR). Of these ranked titles, nearly a… Read More
