Essential Science Indicators
See where science is going and who is leading the way
Monitor the scientific research landscape
Analyzing publication results among those leading in the natural and social sciences.
Detect emerging science trends
Browse trending topics—Research Fronts—or benchmark top research performance with the same data used to accurately predict Nobel Prize winners since 2002.
Identify leading research
rack the upper echelon of research across 22 broad categories in the hard sciences and social sciences.
Find collaborators
Locate potential partners by quickly generating rankings of regions and institutions publishing highly cited research in your field.
Simple, out of the box research analysis
Reliable data foundation
Accurately identify top performing research with trusted data sourced from the meticulously indexed Web of Science Core Collection.
Clear indicators
Easy-to-use Hot Paper and Highly Cited Paper indicators provide a simple, straightforward way to identify the most impactful papers in a field.
Web of Science integration
Through integration with the Web of Science platform, you can focus a search on recent, influential publications.
Analyze and monitor top performing research in context
A trusted metric used for decades to recognize Citation Laureates and accurately predict Nobel Laureates, Highly Cited Papers captures impact that is pivotal and foundational.
Assess topics that are trending quickly by seeing what papers are receiving an exceptionally high number of citations within the last two years of publication.
Make strategic decisions that support growth areas in the natural and social sciences. Research Fronts point to the foundational knowledge in these new fields of study.
Inform your institution’s goals by clearly understanding the criteria. View the minimum number of citations required to be ranked in ESI.
View data in context of other similar content in the research landscape. Baselines are expected citation rates for papers within a year for a particular research field.
Drill down into a research field, institution, author, journal, country or Research Front to see a collection of citation trends for that entity.