Science Citation Index
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The Science Citation Index is a multidisciplinary citation database that tracks and indexes scientific journal articles to measure research impact and facilitate literature discovery.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Science Citation Index canonical | 42 |
| Science Citation Index Expanded | 9 |
| Web of Science | 4 |
| SCI database | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T139954 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Science Citation Index Context triple: [IEEE Transactions on Communications, indexingService, Science Citation Index]
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A.
Scopus
Scopus is a large abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature covering scientific, technical, medical, and social science research.
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B.
DOI
DOI is the commonly used abbreviation for the United States Department of the Interior, the federal executive department responsible for managing the nation’s natural resources and public lands.
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C.
Citation Star
The Citation Star was a U.S. Army World War I-era decoration for gallantry that later served as the basis for creating the Silver Star medal.
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D.
ACM Digital Library
The ACM Digital Library is a comprehensive online research repository providing access to the Association for Computing Machinery’s journals, conference proceedings, technical magazines, and other computing-related publications.
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E.
INSPEC
INSPEC is a major bibliographic database produced by the Institution of Engineering and Technology that indexes scientific and technical literature in physics, engineering, and related disciplines.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Science Citation Index Target entity description: The Science Citation Index is a multidisciplinary citation database that tracks and indexes scientific journal articles to measure research impact and facilitate literature discovery.
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A.
Scopus
Scopus is a large abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature covering scientific, technical, medical, and social science research.
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B.
DOI
DOI is the commonly used abbreviation for the United States Department of the Interior, the federal executive department responsible for managing the nation’s natural resources and public lands.
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C.
Citation Star
The Citation Star was a U.S. Army World War I-era decoration for gallantry that later served as the basis for creating the Silver Star medal.
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D.
ACM Digital Library
The ACM Digital Library is a comprehensive online research repository providing access to the Association for Computing Machinery’s journals, conference proceedings, technical magazines, and other computing-related publications.
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E.
INSPEC
INSPEC is a major bibliographic database produced by the Institution of Engineering and Technology that indexes scientific and technical literature in physics, engineering, and related disciplines.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bibliographic database
ⓘ
citation database ⓘ citation index ⓘ |
| abbreviation | SCI ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| coversDiscipline |
engineering
ⓘ
life sciences ⓘ natural sciences ⓘ physical sciences ⓘ technology ⓘ |
| creator | Eugene Garfield ⓘ |
| dataFeeds |
Journal Citation Reports
ⓘ
calculation of Journal Impact Factor ⓘ |
| field |
bibliometrics
ⓘ
information science ⓘ scientometrics ⓘ |
| hasAccessModel | subscription ⓘ |
| hasEdition |
Science Citation Index
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Science Citation Index Expanded
|
| hasFormat |
online database
ⓘ
print index (historical) ⓘ |
| includes |
author information
ⓘ
citation references ⓘ journal information ⓘ publication year ⓘ |
| indexingUnit |
article
ⓘ
journal ⓘ |
| isMultidisciplinary | true ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
Web of Science
ⓘ
surface form:
Clarivate
Clarivate Analytics ⓘ |
| originallyDevelopedBy |
Clarivate Analytics
ⓘ
surface form:
Institute for Scientific Information
|
| partOf | Web of Science ⓘ |
| publisher |
Clarivate Analytics
ⓘ
surface form:
Clarivate
|
| tracks |
citations between articles
ⓘ
scientific journal articles ⓘ |
| use |
citation analysis
ⓘ
impact measurement ⓘ literature discovery ⓘ research evaluation ⓘ |
| usedBy |
funding agencies
ⓘ
librarians ⓘ research administrators ⓘ researchers ⓘ |
| usedFor |
finding related articles
ⓘ
journal selection for evaluation ⓘ mapping scientific fields ⓘ tracking research impact ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Science Citation Index Description of subject: The Science Citation Index is a multidisciplinary citation database that tracks and indexes scientific journal articles to measure research impact and facilitate literature discovery.
Referenced by (56)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Science Citation Index Expanded