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Web of Science is a collection of academic databases. The default search option is the Web of Science Core Collection, which includes the Science, Social Science, and Arts & Humanities Citation Indexes and Book Citation Indexes.
Web of Science includes metrics about publications (documents), authors and journals, based on citations from other documents indexed in the Web of Science databases. Author metrics include the percentage of papers on which a researcher was first, last or corresponding author.
For some publications, the citations have been classified by the section in which they appear and the nature of the reference, with the categories Background, Basis, Support, Differ and Discuss. However, the accuracy of the categorisation has yet to be clearly evidenced.
Web of Science links to Journal Citation Reports, a tool which provides journal level metrics. While these may be useful to inform publishing choices, they should not be used to assess individual research outputs or researchers, in line with DORA and the University of Nottingham Principles for Responsible Indicators Use.
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