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Web of Science: a Multidisciplinary Citation Database: Preprint Citation Index

Preprint

Preprint Citation Index is a multidisciplinary collection of articles collected  from a range of preprint repositories in the social sciences, sciences and arts & humanities, before the formal publication in a journal

Key Features

  • Discovering preprints in the Web of Science environment simplifies the process of evaluating preprint quality and trustworthiness by connecting preprints to the versions of record and linking to other scholarly output from preprint authors.
  • It provides links to published articles indexed in WoS Core Collection
  • Citing reference network allowing researchers to find cutting edge research that has not yet been published
  • Citing preprints - to see the latest preprints relating to a published scholarly article

Source: https://webofscience.help.clarivate.com/en-us/Content/pre-prints/pre-prints.htm

 

 

Procedure for Searching Preprint

 

Select Preprint Citation Index from the drop-down menu on the main search screen:

The default search is Topic. Type your topic in the search box and click Search. Use the filters on the left panel to sort and limit your results. The repository of the preprint appears at the end of the abstract of each record.  You can view full-text by clicking the link.  On the right panel of each record are the links to its citations--. Citing Preprints and References