At this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, Thomson Reuters announced a new
product, Book Citation Index, to add to its suite of citation indexes.
To get the story behind this announcement, NewsBreaks went to the
company’s vice president for editorial development and publisher
relations, James Testa...
What exactly is the Book Citation Index and what
is the product intended to provide for users?
With Book Citation Index, we are rounding out our citation coverage
of core research literature. We have what we believe are the top tier
regional and international journals in the Web of Science (WoS) citation
indexes. The selection criteria for those indexes are well-known. We
also have the Conference Proceedings, which provides comprehensive
coverage of the conference literature back to the early 1990s, with
cited references going back to 1999.
The other major format is the world of books. We know that they are
extremely important in the social sciences and the humanities. But they
are also important in the sciences. Social scientists use them heavily
and cite them heavily. We want to make sure that we best serve that
community by complementing the other two forms of publications—serials
and proceedings—in the book arena as well. That’s our primary goal.
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