The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) was an academic publishing service, founded by Eugene Garfield in Philadelphia in 1956.
Some anecdotal evidence suggests that appearing in this database can double the number of citations received by a given paper.
Within the scientific community, journal impact factors continue to play a large but controversial role in determining the kudos attached to a scientist's published research record.
[3] ISI published Science Watch, a newsletter which every two months identified one paper published in the previous two years as a "fast-breaking paper" in each of 22 broad fields of science, such as Mathematics (including Statistics), Engineering, Biology, Chemistry, and Physics.
Each paper in the data is assigned to one or more of 21 categories, based on the ISI classification of the journal in which the article was published.
The categories are: The publication list and biographical details supplied by the researchers are freely available online, although general access to the ISI citation database is by subscription.