What is Institute for Scientific Information (ISI)

The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) was founded by Eugene Garfield in 1960. It was acquired by Thomson Scientific & Healthcare in 1992, became known as Thomson ISI and now is part of the Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters. ISI offered bibliographic database services. Its specialty: citation indexing and analysis, a field pioneered by Garfield. It maintains citation databases covering thousands of academic journals, including a continuation of its longtime print-based indexing service the Science Citation Index (SCI), as well as the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), and the Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI). All of these are available via ISI's Web of Knowledge database service (“Institute for Scientific Information”, 2013).

Citation Based Indicators in Evaluation of Quality and Performance of Research and Researchers

Vahideh Zarea Gavgani (Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Iran) and Fahime Abbasi (Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Iran)