Web of Science Core Collection

Research with confidence

Advance innovative research
Uncover new connections between ideas and detect emerging fields as you search journal, conference, and book content across 250+ research areas, all connected via citation.
Protect your research reputation
Power your programs with a publisher-neutral, curated resource trusted by more researchers worldwide than any other citation database.
Assess and monitor research impact
Capture the most accurate view of your citation impact with a meticulously indexed dataset. Identify research that builds on your discoveries and explore the influence of your institution’s research.

Build on a reliable research foundation

Don’t miss a thing
50+ years of consistent, accurate, and complete indexing has created a dataset of unmatched quality. Cover-to-cover indexing, complete cited reference, author, and affiliation data, and accurate subject classifications provide certainty that your analysis is free of gaps.
Stay confident in your results
Independent, in-house editorial experts evaluate and select journals to provide you with a dataset of the world’s leading journals that is free from potential industry bias or conflict of interest. Rigorous selection and curation processes guard against the inclusion of untrustworthy titles.
Trace the evolution of an idea
Over 120 years of comprehensive data enables you to explore the full scope and origins of an idea.
Find experts faster
Web of Science Researcher Profiles provide a 360-degree view of an individual’s scholarly contributions, including publications, citation metrics, peer reviews, and journal editing work, helping you showcase your work and identify collaborators quickly.
Gain deeper insight
Algorithmically classified citations reveal how a paper was cited so you can easily conduct targeted searches for background or basis articles and pinpoint must-read papers.
Stay up to date
Broad, multidisciplinary conference coverage helps you find cutting-edge discoveries, while daily updates and a suite of alerts help you stay current on a topic, monitor competitor activity, and track who is citing your work and the work of others.

“The Web of Science contains a remarkable treasure of data on scientific content, impact, and collaborations from 1900 to the present day on a global scale. Its comprehensive coverage has been an indispensable resource for the study of science, technology, and knowledge — enabling breakthroughs that would have been impossible without it…”

Brian Uzzi
Northwestern University

“For me it has elevated the role of the Library in the academic project. The Library is now a recognised partner in research impact reporting, thanks to the Web of Science.”

Paiki Muswazi
University Librarian
University of the Witwatersrand

“The broad scope of the Web of Science has allowed me to search in interdisciplinary fields for appropriate literature in my own work as well as assisting students with their research process. The ability to search for older citations to locate seminal work is vital.”

Librarian
Educational Institution

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Alison Ricker
Head, Science Library
Oberlin College

“… I find the Web of Science to be an extremely useful tool. From creating alerts based on national/federal funding to prioritize the recruitment of articles for our institutional repository to my own research studies involving co-citation analysis to helping student researchers in many different subject areas, the Web of Science has been incredibly versatile!”

Michael Hohner
Head of Collections
University of Winnipeg

Trusted content from the world's leading sources

2.2BN
cited references
92M
records going back to 1900
22K+
peer-reviewed journals
308K+
conferences covered
151K+
books covered
28M
records with funding data
21.8M
open access records with full text links
254
subject categories across the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities