Helping researchers more easily access
preprints within trusted platform to advance scientific
progress
LONDON, Feb. 9, 2023
/PRNewswire/ -- Clarivate Plc (NYSE:CLVT), a global
leader in connecting people and organizations to intelligence they
can trust to transform their world, has added the Preprint Citation
Index™ to the Web of Science™ platform. Researchers
can now locate and link to preprints alongside other trusted
content in the database, to streamline the research process and
help make meaningful connections faster.
In academic publishing, a preprint is a version of a research
paper or outcome publicly available in online repositories prior to
peer review. Access to preprints in the Web of
Science makes it quicker and easier for researchers to include
them in their existing research workflows. It enables immediate
access to up-to-date, aggregated and searchable preprints from
selected repositories linked to author profiles.
At launch, the Preprint Citation Index provides nearly two
million preprints from the arXiv, bioRxiv, chemRxiv, medRxiv, and
Preprints.org repositories. Papers from more than a dozen
additional repositories will be added throughout 2023. Preprint
records are discoverable alongside other scholarly output in the
Web of Science and connected to final versions of record, where
applicable. They are clearly marked in search results and not
included in any citation metrics including Times Cited Counts or
the Journal Impact Factor™ (JIF) within the Web of Science Core
Collection™ or Journal Citation
Reports™.
The Preprint Citation Index enables users to:
- Locate versions of record (where applicable) for
preprints: Find and reference peer-reviewed articles with links
from preprints to Web of Science Core Collection records.
- Connect preprints to journal articles: Uncover
connections between cutting-edge preprints indexed in the Preprint
Citation Index and journal articles indexed in the Web of Science
Core Collection via citation linking.
- Expand the view of a researcher's expertise: Place
preprints in the context of a researcher's career with preprints
displayed on an author's Web of Science Researcher Profile.
- Monitor new research across several repositories: An
author can set an alert for keywords or a named researcher of
interest to be notified when relevant preprints become
available.
Francesca Buckland,
Senior Director of Product Management, Web of Science at
Clarivate: "For researchers focused on today's urgent global
challenges, access to preprints can significantly speed up
scientific progress and fuel the world's greatest breakthroughs.
We've created the Preprint Citation Index to support faster, more
complete research, through the lens of the trusted high-quality
content for which the Web of Science is known."
Notes to editors:
arXiv is a curated research-sharing platform open to
anyone. As a pioneer in digital open access, arXiv.org now hosts
more than two million scholarly articles in the fields of physics,
mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative
finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science,
and economics, curated by a strong community of volunteer
moderators.
bioRxiv is an online archive and distribution service for
preprints in the life sciences. It is operated by Cold Spring
Harbor Laboratory, a not-for-profit research and educational
institution.
medRxiv is an online archive and distribution server for
preprints in the medical, clinical, and related health sciences.
medRxiv is operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a
not-for-profit research and educational institution, in partnership
with Yale University, and BMJ, a global
healthcare knowledge provider.
ChemRxiv is a submission, distribution, and archive
service for unpublished preprints in chemistry and related areas.
ChemRxiv is co-owned and collaboratively managed by the American
Chemical Society (ACS), Chinese Chemical Society (CCS), Chemical
Society of Japan (CSJ), German
Chemical Society (GDCh), and the Royal Society of Chemistry
(RSC).
Preprints.org is a multidiscipline platform
providing preprint service that is dedicated to making early
versions of research outputs permanently available and citable. It
is supported by MDPI in Basel,
Switzerland.
About Clarivate
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information services provider. We connect people and organizations
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and Intellectual Property. For more information, please visit
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Scheer
External Communications Director (Academia & Government)
newsroom@clarivate.com
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