Please see the following link for a description of all current document types and descriptions presented in the Web of Science

The following journal items typically are excluded from indexing:

• Issue highlights, section descriptions, and editorial statements
• Author indexes, subject indexes, and annual indexes
• Members of an editorial board and/or changes in board membership or journal editorship
• Acknowledgements, announcements and subscriptions
• News blurbs, fillers, trade news, society news, journal reviews
• Call for papers
• Thesis abstracts

Law decisions The following journal items might be included in Web of Science:

• Editor’s notes (depending on the content)
• Book reviews (processed for journals included in ESCI, AHCI and SSCI). SCIE started indexing book reviews in 2021.
• Art exhibits; scripts; poetry; reviews of film, music, recordings, theatre, TV, radio, video, dance, and fiction (processed only in journals included in ESCI and AHCI)

Using the multiple request template is an efficient way to submit multiple corrections. It saves time by allowing the customer to submit multiple requests instead of creating a correction for each individual item. Examples: Missing Articles, Address or Citation corrections can be sent via a single case with multiple requests (if <100 requests) by using the attached excel that is given with the correction form.

Clarivate has agreements with other publishers to provide access to their data within the Web of Knowledge®. We are not able to make data changes or corrections to these leased databases. Please see the following link for corrections to our hosted products

Countries names must be on our standardized country list. This allows us to search records by the standardized country name throughout our products.

Author/address linking began in 2008. Please see the following link regarding author/address linking

Biosis Previews only index 1 corresponding address. Please see the following link regarding Biosis addresses

We acquired the BIOSIS databases in 2005. So we are unable to process any data correction request for the articles prior to 2005. 

The source record  information in parenthesis at the end of the title is our standard practice for processing erratum/correction articles and cannot be removed.

Keywords Plus® are index terms automatically generated from the titles of cited articles and cannot be deleted. Please see the following link for additional information

Special characters currently do not display in product and are usually converted to the spelled out version. (ex: beta)

Our book review policy is as follows: The title of the actual book that is being reviewed is listed as the title. This policy allows users to search for reviews on specific books. The author reviewing the book is processed as the author.

WOS contains journal items and DRCI is about data resources. They may have the same title but are not the same item (even though they have the same abstract). They cannot be removed.

As per our editorial policy we are indexing the Original articles and corrections articles as per the publisher website. We can not remove the correction article.

Please see the following link regarding Full Source Authors

Reprint addresses and authors are not processed for meeting abstracts. We process the authors and all of the addresses as research addresses.

Please see our current policy regarding group authors

Multiple reprint authors/reprint addresses capture began in 2016 and cannot be added for prior years. Please see the following link regarding multiple reprint authors

Umlauts currently do not display. Please see the following link regarding umlaut characters

Please see the following link for information regarding particles

We do not to aggregate cited references of the preprint and final published versions of a manuscript. Our policy is to consider these documents distinct since they are published by difference sources (i.e., a journal vs a preprint server) and their content can in some cases differ significantly. We continue to monitor both emerging technology and the views of the academic community in this regard.

Missing references can be added if the references are presented in the reference list of PDF/Publisher Site/Supplementary materials.

References from "Further Reading" section (“which are not explicitly cited in the paper”) will not be processed.

The following citable items are included in JCR: reviews, articles, proceedings. Please see the following link for additional information

Please see the following link regarding "ahead of print" and "Early Access Articles"

Early Access/E-first/Ahead-of-Print for articles prior to the onboarding active date of the publisher will not be processed. We will index the article once it becomes available to us with an assigned volume and issue number.

If the publisher has not yet been onboarded we are unable to add the e-first article. Web of Science is working with publishers to expand this content. We apologize for any inconvenience this has caused you. Please see the following regarding early access

If the publisher has not yet been onboarded, Early Access/E-First/Online first articles will only be available in the Web of Science after they have been assigned to a Volume & Issue number on the Publisher Website.

Once a journal is dropped from coverage no further issues/articles/missing articles will be processed. Our Publisher Relations team conveys this information to each publisher when a drop occurs and it is the responsibility of the publisher to make this known to the authors.

Missing content for Books five years prior and up to the current year: All Books must go through our Editorial Book Evaluation/Selection process before it can be considered for Indexing in our Book Citation Index product. See publisher relations. If you have any questions regarding these procedures please contact us at: publisher.relations@clarivate.com.

Books selected must bear a copyright from the current year or previous five years in order to be considered for selection. Please see attached for additional information

We accept book submissions directly from publishers, with whom we must execute a formal agreement. Authors interested in submitting their books may direct their publishers to write us at ClarivateEditorialBookRequests@clarivate.com.

Please see the following for further information and contact information or tr.pubrelations-journals@clarivate.com

This journal was selected for Zoological Record only.

We process meeting abstracts from journals only in certain circumstances. If the journal falls into any of these three conditions, individual meeting abstracts are processed.

• The journal is covered in the Web of Science Social Science Citation Index®
• The journal is also covered in BIOSIS and meets the BIOSIS meeting abstracts processing policy, or is also covered in Derwent Drug File
• The journal is on a pre-approved Web of Science exception list

If the journal does not fall into any of the above conditions, the meeting abstract section is processed as a single “article” record with “Abstract” added to the title.

DOI handing for meeting abstracts

If a single DOI is provided for either a meeting abstract section or the individual meeting abstracts, it is included. However, if a single DOI is provided for a meeting abstract section and the meeting abstracts are indexed individually, it will be included with the Current Contents Meeting record and not the individual meeting abstracts since the DOIs should be unique.

All proceedings issues must first go through our Editorial Evaluation/Selection process before it can be considered for indexing in the Conference Proceedings Citation Index. Please send details of the Conference to be considered to the following email address: TR.PubRelations-Proceedings@clarivate.com

References are processed as per the full text and cannot be changed from citing the correction article to citing the original article.

We are continuously working to improve our resolution times by investing in people, processes and technology to ensure a world-class customer experience.

• Most of our author record requests are resolved within 72 business hours.
• Most of our missing content requests are resolved in 60 days or less.
• In most cases, all other data corrections are resolved in two weeks.

Please note that the above timelines might be longer if the number of corrections is greater than 100.