THOMSON REUTERS INTRODUCTION David Horky Country Manager

2 THOMSON REUTERS World’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals 17 th April, 2008: The Thomson Corporation and Reuters Group PLC combine to form Thomson Reuters Two Divisions –Markets Division –Professional Division ISI is an integral part of the company

CITED REFERENCES IN SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION Garfield, E. “Citation indexes for science: A new dimension in documentation through association of ideas.” Science, 122 (3159), p , July Cited References association of ideas of its author Citation Indexes new approach to subject control of the literature of science

4 More than 20 million ISI Web of Knowledge users in 93 countries Europe, Middle East & Africa 1,650 customers in 52 countries North America 806 customers in 2 countries Latin America 253 customers in 13 countries Asia-Pacific 390 customers in 26 countries

5 MAJOR ISI WEB OF KNOWLEDGE CONSORTIA – CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE NEW BulgariaPoland CroatiaRussia Czech RepublicSerbia GreeceSlovakia NEW Georgia Slovenia Hungary NEW Romania

6 Write Cite while you write in Microsoft Word Automatic formatting citations 2,300 Journal Article output styles Manage Citations Search Results Alerting Full-text Analyse Data Mining Citation Analysis & Reports Scientific Indicators Performance Benchmark Search 22,000 Academic Journals 100 Year Scientific Citation 31 million patents 60,000 Proceedings Institution Repository The Research Cycle ISI WEB OF KNOWLEDGE

Journals & Serials Conference Proceedings Patents 11, Books Other Literature Citations ,700 5,100 5,000 4,900 3,300 7,300 1,200 Web of Science Conference Proceedings Derwent Innovations Index Current Contents Biological Abstracts BIOSIS Previews Zoological Record MEDLINE CAB Abstracts INSPEC Food Science & Technology Abstracts Depth (Years) ISI WEB OF KNOWLEDGE

TOMORROW’S PRESENTATION - BIBLIOMETRICS Science has grown faster than our ability to support it The need to be selective: What should be funded and what should not, or, which projects and researchers should receive more support than others? Quantitative Analysis: an attempt to make decisions more rational, scientific “If you can measure that of which you speak, and can express it by a number, you know something of your subject; but if you cannot measure it, your knowledge is meager and unsatisfactory” - Lord Kelvin (William Thomson) “If you can measure that of which you speak, and can express it by a number, you know something of your subject; but if you cannot measure it, your knowledge is meager and unsatisfactory” - Lord Kelvin (William Thomson)

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