Book Citation Index
| Company type | Subscription-based index |
|---|---|
| Industry | Bibliographic database |
| Founded | 2011 |
Area served | Global |
| Products | Citation index of scholarly books |
| Parent | Clarivate Analytics |
The Book Citation Index (abbreviated as BCI or BKCI) is a scientific citation index accessible through subscription, managed by Clarivate Analytics and integrated within the Web of Science Core Collection. Introduced in 2011, it catalogs more than 60,000 carefully selected scholarly books published since 2005.[1] This collection includes both digital and printed academic works that present original research as well as comprehensive literature reviews.[1]
Content
This index encompasses both series and standalone books, complete with detailed footnotes, and is divided into two versions: Science and Social Sciences & Humanities. The Science version covers disciplines such as physics, chemistry, engineering, computer science, clinical medicine, life sciences, agriculture, and biology. Both editions provide coverage of publications from 2005 to the present.[2]
Reception
In their 2014 work Beyond Bibliometrics: Harnessing Multidimensional Indicators of Scholarly Impact, Blaise Cronin and Cassidy R. Sugimoto observed that although the Book Citation Index addressed the demand for extensive evaluation of book impact, open-access tools like Google Books provided more comprehensive bibliometric coverage.[3] A 2013 publication in the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology discussed both the advantages and drawbacks of the index, pointing out challenges such as absent address details, inflated counts of publications, inconsistent citation data, and difficulties specifically related to citing books.[4] Despite these issues, it acknowledged the BCI as a significant foundational effort towards creating a dependable citation resource for monographs.[4]
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