The core collection of web of science includes

(A) Science Citation Index Expanded

(B) Social Sciences Citation Index

(C) Arts and Humanities Citation Index

(D) Agriculture, Biology and Environmental Science

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

The correct answer is option 2- (A), (B), (C) only.

Key Points 

• The core collection of the web of science includes:
  • Science Citation Index Expanded
  • Social Sciences Citation Index
  • Arts and Humanities Citation Index

Science Citation Index Expanded 

• It is a multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the sciences.
• It fully covers over 8,300 major journals across 150 scientific disciplines.
• It includes all cited references captured from indexed articles.

Social Sciences Citation Index

• It is a multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the social sciences.
• It fully covers over 2,900 journals across 50 social sciences disciplines.
• It also indexes individually selected, relevant items from over 3,500 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals.

Arts and Humanities Citation Index

• It is a multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the arts and humanities.
• It fully covers over 1,600 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals.
• It also indexes individually selected, relevant items from over 6,000 major science and social science journals.

Additional Information

• The Web of Science Core Collection consists of ten indexes containing information gathered from thousands of scholarly journals, books, book series, reports, conferences, and more.

Web of Science

• The Web of Science is a paid-access platform that provides access to multiple databases that provide reference and citation data from academic journals, conference proceedings, and other documents in various academic disciplines.
• It was previously known as the Web of Knowledge.
• Launched in 1997 and is currently owned by Clarivate.