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No matter what the need, the Research Services Group will make every effort to provide the information “any way you like it.”
 

The Research Services Group offers a range of data products and services (complete list of products are to the left), from standard data sets integrated with easy-to-use graphical interfaces for use on desktop PCs, Web-based applications, to customized data packages for workstation and mainframe environments to meet the most exacting demands of clients with special requirements. The Research Services Group also designs proprietary software to enable end users to access and manipulate the Thomson Scientific publication and citation data with maximum power and flexibility.

The Research Services Group maintains a specially structured file - the Science Indicators Database - of publication and citation data, which includes ALL items indexed by Thomson Scientific and all the references listed in those items. This resource—multidisciplinary in scope, exhaustive in coverage of authors and addresses, and comprising annual and total citation counts (essential measures of research influence and impact) - represents the most valuable source for science studies worldwide.

Clients include science policy agencies, government laboratories, universities (view the University Products Fact Sheet), libraries, independent research institutes, corporations, publishers, investment advisors and journalists. View an informative document: "Research Services Group; Products for University Administration & Libraries."

Most products have the interface, sample database with detailed instructions that you may install and preview.

 
 

Why are citations so powerful?

"It has to do with the fact that science is a collective and collaborative process: a lot of independent and creative people around the world, sharing their work through open publication. The citation facilitates this by allowing one scholar to embed another's work in his or her own, creating an extended, collective argument."

–Dr. Henry Small, Chief Scientist, Research Services Group

 

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