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Es­sen­tial Sci­ence In­dic­at­or

A tool for ana­lys­ing and com­par­ing re­search out­put across dis­cip­lines. It of­fers in­sight into the most cited art­icles, re­search­ers, in­sti­tu­tions, coun­tries and journ­als with­in 22 re­search areas.

Link to Essential Science Indicator

Facts

Coverage
Worldwide
Period
Up­dated every two months. Each up­date cov­ers ten years (+ six months).
Access
On campus + remote access
Provider
Clariv­ate
Subjects
Methodology

Ex­plore the im­pact of re­search

Tool for analysis and comparison

Essential Science Indicators (ESI) is a database that analyses research output across disciplines and provides an overview of the most cited articles, researchers, institutions, countries and journals across 22 research areas. It is based on citation data from Web of Science, with data from 8500 journals.

ESI allows you to rank and compare individual researchers, universities, countries and journals. For example, you can rank by number of articles, number of received citations and citations per article and more.

The 22 areas are defined based on the subject classification of the journals, not the individual articles. Each journal is included in only one subject area. The areas most relevant in a CBS context are ‘Economics, Business’, ‘Social Sciences, General’ and ‘Computer science’.

 

When is ESI useful?
 

  • Students or researchers who want to identify the most influential journals within a field can use ESI.
  • As an internal tool at the university, ESI can be used to evaluate research impact and benchmark against similar institutions.

Hot and Highly Cited

Search in Web of Sci­ence and sort by highly cited or hot pa­pers to see the most im­port­ant art­icles with­in a field.
Link to Web of Science