Web of Science platform
Accelerate novel research of the highest quality with premier scholarly and scientific research tools
Power your programs with the world’s most trusted citation database
You need reliable building blocks to confidently advance scholarly research. Our independent and thorough editorial selection process coupled with sixty years of consistent, accurate, and complete indexing enables efficient research discovery in an environment you can trust.
Capture developments along the entire research lifecycle in a single search
Cast a wide net with each search on the Web of Science platform. Uncover emerging research in preprints, dissertations, theses, and awarded grants so you can better position your own project in today’s competitive landscape. Locate data sets and studies to validate research and reuse in your own work. And start incorporating technical information disclosed exclusively in the patent literature.
View life sciences research through an expert lens
Strengthen crucial life sciences research and advance topics faster with expertly indexed, deep coverage of the literature. Explore a complete view of life sciences research, pinpoint relevant information quickly and investigate our changing world with resources built by experts, for experts.
Take a deeper dive into the literature of a research domain with third party content
Broaden your view of the landscape with expanded coverage and help researchers find unique papers from niche resources in the applied sciences. Stay up-to-date on high priority technologies, advance public health and applied life sciences research, review biomedical literature, and locate specialized food science papers.
Stay connected to research progress around the globe
Incorporate more regional perspectives with collections that widen coverage of prominent publications in several geographies. Apply local research findings to global challenges and locate key opinion leaders publishing around the world.
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Streamline your research with unmatched scholarly and scientific research tools
Increase the breadth and depth of discovery with the Web of Science
High-quality data representing the complex global landscape of multidisciplinary research today
A wide array of outputs in one search
Cast a wide net with each search to easily locate conference papers, awarded grants, preprints, dissertations, books, data sets, and patents alongside content from the world’s leading journals.
Deep historical data indexed by experts
Over 150 years of comprehensive, standardized, and enriched data enables you to explore the full scope and origins of an idea.
Views into unpublished findings
Incorporate the novel information from dissertations and theses, technical patent applications, datasets generated during studies, and early preprints into your scientific research process.
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Discovering new insights from early-career scholarship through the addition of >172M linked cited references from ProQuest dissertations and theses on the Web of Science
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