The
Science Citation Index (
SCI) is a
citation index originally produced by the
Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) in 1960, which is now owned by
Thomson Reuters.
The larger version (
Science Citation Index Expanded) covers 6,400 of the world's leading
journals of
science and
technology.
It is made available online through the
Web of Science database, a part of the
Web of Knowledge collection of databases. (There are also CD and printed editions, covering a smaller number of journals). This database allows a researcher to identify which later articles have cited any particular earlier article, or cited the articles of any particular author, or determine which articles have been cited most frequently. Thomson Reuters also market several subsets of this database, termed "Specialty Citation Indexes",
such as the
Neuroscience Citation Index.