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Science
Citation Index
Web of Science |
Chemical
Abstracts
SciFinder Scholar |
| Journals
covered |
> 480
chemistry journals
5,900
in total
|
1500
core chemical journals: all articles + book reviews,
letters, news, editorials etc. included
monitors
more than 9000
journals for chemical content
|
| Subject
coverage |
all
science disciplines, incl. maths, computing, physics
& astron, chemistry, earth & biological sciences, medicine
& eng |
biochemistry,
organic physical, inorganic, analytical, macromolecular
& applied chemistry, chemical eng. |
| Other
source material |
NONE |
patents,
technical repts, books, conf. procs, dissertations, preprints |
| Chem.
names & molecular formulae |
Only
if in title/abstract |
All
indexed |
| Structure/
reaction searching |
NO |
YES
|
| Data
from |
1981 |
1907
|
|
Total
References
at
Feb 2003
|
18
million |
25
million |
| Added
weekly |
17,000
(= 884,000 p.a.) |
14,000
(= 728,000 p.a.) |
| Includes
abstracts |
70% |
100%
|
| Includes
citation info |
YES
|
YES
- but only since 1999 |
| Includes
all author addresses |
YES
|
NO
- only first address indexed |
BIOSIS
Biological Abstracts:
Sample
searches - references retrieved
(since
1981 only to give a fair comparison)
|
Search
terms
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Science
Citation Index
Web of Science
|
Chemical
Abstracts
SciFinder Scholar
|
| Perovskite* |
10,522
|
17,868
|
| Mass
spectrometr* |
66,624
|
127,847
|
| Tropolone* |
553
|
996
|
| Magnetoresistan* |
10,824
|
15,484
|
| Flash
photolysis |
4,659
|
6,429
|
|
Protein
fold*
|
5,049
|
29,006
|
|
Lysozyme*
|
9,573
|
14,199
|
|
amino
acid analy*
|
13,220
|
54,599
|
|
potassium
channel*
|
13,290
|
17,111
|
|
protein
phosphatase*
|
5,773
|
17,518
|
|
Johnson,
L N
|
113
|
121
|
|
Campbell,
I D
|
167
|
176
|
|
Reid,
K B M
|
199
|
178
|
| Dwek,
R A |
228
|
256
|
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