Main articles: History of the social sciences and History of sociologyThe history of the social sciences begins in the Age of Enlightenment after 1650, which saw a revolution within natural philosophy ...
Scopus is a bibliographic database containing abstracts and citations for academic journal articles. It covers nearly 21,000 titles from over 5,000 publishers, of which 20,000 are peer-reviewed journa ...
Elsevier took its name from the Dutch publishing house Elzevir, which, however, had no connection with the present company. The Elzevir family operated as booksellers and publishers in the Netherlands ...
Web of Knowledge is described as a unifying research tool which enables the user to acquire, analyze, and disseminate database information in a timely manner. This is accomplished because of the creat ...
A citation index is built on the fact that citations in science serve as linkages between similar research items, and lead to matching or related scientific literature, such as journal articles, confe ...
The Thomson Corporation Main article: The Thomson CorporationThe Company was founded by Roy Thomson in 1934 in Ontario as the publisher of The Timmins Daily Press. In 1953 Thomson acquired the Scotsma ...
Spinoza's doctrine of immortality was strikingly similar. But Spinoza teaches that the way to attain the knowledge which confers immortality is the progress from sense-knowledge through scientific kno ...
His full Hebrew name is Rabbi Mosheh ben Maimon (Hebrew: ??? ??? ?? ??????), whose acronym forms "Rambam" (???"?). His full Arabic name is Abū ?Imrān Mūsā bin Maimūn bin ?Ubai ...
Mishnaic literature The Mishnah and the Tosefta (compiled from materials pre-dating the year 200) are the earliest extant works of rabbinic literature, expounding and developing Judaism's Oral Law, as ...
Google Scholar arose out of a discussion between Alex Verstak and Anurag Acharya, both of whom were then working on building Google's main web index.In 2006, in response to release of Microsoft's Wind ...
CiteSeer and CiteSeer.IST CiteSeer was created by researchers Lee Giles, Kurt Bollacker and Steve Lawrence in 1997 while they were at the NEC Research Institute (now NEC Labs), Princeton, New Jersey, ...
The index was originally developed by the Institute for Scientific Information, which was later acquired by Thomson Scientific. It is now published by Thomson Reuters' Healthcare Science division.The ...
In 2004 economists Daniel B. Klein and Eric Chiang conducted a survey of the Social Sciences Citation Index and identified a bias against free market oriented research. In addition to an ideological b ...
Chemistry Citation Index One 1980 study reported the overall citation indexing benefits for Chemistry. The Chemistry Citation Index was first introduced by Eugene Garfield, a chemist. His original "se ...
There are two kinds of article or paper submissions in academia: solicited, where an individual has been invited to submit work either through direct contact or through a general submissions call, and ...
