Web of Science is a subscription citation database and research-discovery platform indexing scholarly journals, conference proceedings and citation links.
Web of Science is Clarivate's flagship research-intelligence platform, providing a curated multidisciplinary index of scholarly journals, books and conference proceedings together with cited-reference searching that lets users trace influence across the scientific literature. It serves academic libraries, universities, research institutions, funders and corporate R&D teams evaluating output and impact.
The platform underpins adjacent Clarivate products such as Journal Citation Reports, Essential Science Indicators and InCites, and is sold on a subscription basis to institutions. Its principal competitors are Elsevier's Scopus and Digital Science's Dimensions, which offer comparable citation-index coverage for bibliometric and research-evaluation use.
