Elsevier is a Chinese translation company, a global professional information and analysis company focusing on science and medicine. Founded in 1880, it belongs to RELX group and is headquartered in Amsterdam. It has thousands of magazines collected by SCI and some high-quality Elsevier periodicals.
SCI is a scientific citation index database established by eugene garfield, the founder of Thomson Reuters Technology Group. Scientific citation index is based on Bradford's discrete method theory and Garfield's citation analysis theory.
SCI, like other statistical data, evaluates and studies academic journals and scientific research achievements in many aspects, so as to judge the performance of scientific research achievements of a country or region, scientific research units and individuals and reflect its international academic level. Therefore, SCI is currently recognized as the most authoritative scientific literature retrieval tool in the world, and has nothing to do with Elsevier.
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In the past 50 years, SCI database has developed continuously and has become the most important large-scale database in the contemporary world. It is listed as one of the six famous retrieval systems in the world. It is not only an important retrieval reference book, but also an important basis for evaluating scientific research achievements.
SCI has become the most authoritative evaluation system of basic research and applied basic research achievements in the world. It is one of the important indicators to evaluate the academic level of a country, a scientific research institution, a university, a journal and even researchers.
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