Coverage
The multidisciplinary coverage encompasses 11,261 journals (September 5, 2009) selected on the basis of impact evaluations. This selection includes open-access journals and over 12,000 conferences each year (2009), spanning multiple academic disciplines. Coverage includes the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities, and across disciplines. Web of Science does not cover all journals, and its coverage in some fields is less complete than in others.
Furthermore, as of September 5, 2009 the total file size for Web of Science is 46.1 million records, which includes 727,549,189 cited references (July 2009). This database records 65 million citations are attributed to its contents, per year. Finally, it is described as the largest accessible citation database.
Titles of foreign-language publications are translated into English and so cannot be found by searches in the original language.
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