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Psychology (from Greek: ψυχή psykhē "breath, spirit, soul"; and -λογία, -logia "study of" [1]) is an academic and applied discipline involving the scientific study of human mental functions and behavior.
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Basic citation data: the number of articles published during that year and; the number of times the articles in the journal were cited during the year by later articles in itself and other journals, detailed tables showing the number of times the articles in the journal were cited during the year by later articles in itself and other journals,
Logo in 2014. The Web of Science (WoS; previously known as Web of Knowledge) is a paid-access platform that provides (typically via the internet) access to multiple databases that provide reference and citation data from academic journals, conference proceedings, and other documents in various academic disciplines.
PsycLIT was a CD-ROM version of Psychological Abstracts.It was merged into the PsycINFO online database in 2000. [2] PsycLIT contained citations and abstracts to journal articles, and summaries of English-language chapters and books in psychology, as well as behavioral information from sociology, linguistics, medicine, law, psychiatry, and anthropology.
In 1961 Garfield received a grant from the U.S. National Institutes of Health to compile a citation index for Genetics. To do so, Garfield's team gathered 1.4 million citations from 613 journals. [8] From this work, Garfield and the ISI produced the first version of the Science Citation Index, published as a book in 1963. [10]
The importance of journals can be measured by the average citation rate, [9] [6] the ratio of number of citations to number articles published within a given time period and in a given index, such as the journal impact factor or the citescore.