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Spec score 8.2 #2 of 20 in Research Administration Software

What it is

Web of Science is a paid research discovery platform built around scholarly literature and citation links. Its stated coverage includes more than 34,000 journals, 288 million metadata records, and 3.4 billion citation links. One search can span journal content, conference papers, grants, preprints, dissertations, books, datasets, and patents. The platform supports finding new research, potential partners, trending topics, and commercial opportunities. It offers multidisciplinary coverage, advanced search, full-text access, conference proceedings, and theses and dissertations. The Web of Science Research Assistant adds multilingual natural-language search, concise overviews, task guidance, and visualizations, with institutional subscription access required. Registered users can export records to EndNote, and researcher profiles can sync publications with ORCID. API Expanded provides REST access with JSON or XML output through a paid licence and registered application. Listed API plans allow 50,000 to 3,000,000 full records yearly, with request rates of two to five per second.

Spec sheet

What it does
Web of Science is a multidisciplinary citation and research-discovery platform covering journals, conference papers, books, grants, preprints, dissertations, datasets and patents.Read 15 Oct 2026 · clarivate.com
Purpose
Web of Science is a research discovery platform built around scholarly literature and citation links.Read 7 Oct 2026 · clarivate.com
Audience
Clarivate describes Web of Science as serving researchers, universities and research institutions, governments, funders, publishers and research-intensive corporations.Read 7 Oct 2026 · developer.clarivate.com
Integrations
Registered users can connect ORCID and send references directly to EndNote online from Web of Science.Read 15 Oct 2026 · webofscience.help.clarivate.com
Security
Clarivate describes its security program as aligned with ISO 27001 and SOC 2, but says not all products are individually certified.Read 7 Oct 2026 · clarivate.com
Support
Clarivate provides Web of Science product and technical support through its Support Center.Read 7 Oct 2026 · supportcenter.clarivate.com
Headquarters
London, United KingdomRead 28 Sep 2026 · clarivate.com
Founded
1997Read 28 Sep 2026 · clarivate.com
Accessibility
Clarivate says Web of Science is partially compliant with WCAG 2.2 AA and publishes an accessibility conformance report.Read 15 Oct 2026 · clarivate.com
AI privacy
Clarivate says it does not send publisher content, library-owned materials or user data to external large language models; only user-entered query content is transmitted to its private LLM setup.Read 15 Oct 2026 · clarivate.com
Android app status
AppBrain reports MyRA was removed from Google Play on March 28, 2024; its last listed version was 2.7.0 and required Android 5.0 or newer.Read 15 Oct 2026 · appbrain.com
API access
The API Expanded offers REST access with JSON and XML output and requires a paid license and registered application.Read 7 Oct 2026 · developer.clarivate.com
API authentication
The API Expanded page states that API access is secured with API keys.Read 15 Oct 2026 · developer.clarivate.com
API Expanded
The Web of Science API Expanded offers REST access with JSON or XML, advanced searching, full item metadata, times-cited counts, affiliations, funding, related records, cited references and citing items.Read 15 Oct 2026 · developer.clarivate.com
API limits
API Expanded plans are limited by request rates and full-record counts, with the listed plans ranging from 50,000 to 3,000,000 records per year.Read 7 Oct 2026 · developer.clarivate.com
Citation network scale
Clarivate describes the full platform as containing more than 271 million records, while the Core Collection links over 97 million records through 2.4 billion cited references.Read 15 Oct 2026 · clarivate.com
Company size
LinkedIn lists Clarivate as a public information-services company with 10,001+ employees and London headquarters.Read 15 Oct 2026 · linkedin.com
Content types
A single search can include journal content, conference papers, grants, preprints, dissertations, books, datasets and patents.Read 7 Oct 2026 · clarivate.com
Core Collection coverage
The Core Collection spans sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities and indexes more than 22,000 journals across over 250 disciplines.Read 15 Oct 2026 · clarivate.com
Data delivery
Clarivate offers API and XML data delivery for large-scale analysis, research-information systems and business-intelligence dashboards, including behind-the-firewall use.Read 15 Oct 2026 · clarivate.com
Deep Search
Deep Search expands synonyms, combines Boolean and semantic searches, screens and deduplicates documents, examines citation networks and produces a traceable evidence report.Read 15 Oct 2026 · webofscience.zendesk.com
Discovery tools
The platform supports finding new research, potential partners, trending topics and commercial opportunities in one interface.Read 7 Oct 2026 · clarivate.com
Documentation and support
The Help Center provides expert-written articles, training videos, live training, release updates and chat, phone or email support.Read 15 Oct 2026 · webofscience.zendesk.com
Editorial curation
In-house editors apply 28 journal-selection criteria: 24 quality tests and four impact tests, with journals periodically re-evaluated.Read 15 Oct 2026 · clarivate.com
Employee count filing
Clarivate’s 2025 Form 10-K says it had more than 12,000 employees in over 40 countries at December 31, 2025.Read 15 Oct 2026 · s25.q4cdn.com
iOS app status
AppBrain lists MyRA as free, last updated May 18, 2022, with no changelog data and no longer available for download.Read 15 Oct 2026 · appbrain.com
Legal company facts
Clarivate Plc is incorporated in Jersey, has principal offices at 70 St Mary Axe in London and trades on the NYSE under CLVT.Read 15 Oct 2026 · sec.gov
Limit: interface and support
G2 feedback mentions a dated-looking interface, non-intuitive tools, slow publication decisions and difficulty reaching support.Read 15 Oct 2026 · g2.com
Limit: price and complexity
G2 reviewers repeatedly call Web of Science expensive and say its many options can be difficult for new users without training.Read 15 Oct 2026 · g2.com
Limit: profile editing
One G2 reviewer could not correct an automatically assigned subject category and reported no available support contact route.Read 15 Oct 2026 · g2.com
Manuscript analysis
Research Assistant accepts PDF manuscripts up to 10 MB and can compare them with Web of Science literature for similarities, evidence and citation opportunities.Read 15 Oct 2026 · webofscience.zendesk.com
Other APIs
Clarivate lists Starter, SUSHI, SUSHI Status, Reviewer Locator, Journals and Researcher APIs for Web of Science data and usage integration.Read 15 Oct 2026 · developer.clarivate.com
Praise: citation and discovery
G2 reviewers repeatedly praise broad databases, citation tracking, journal classification, connected-paper searching and easy citation export to EndNote.Read 15 Oct 2026 · g2.com
Praise: usability
Several G2 reviewers describe the interface as easy or straightforward and say it saves research time.Read 15 Oct 2026 · g2.com
Pricing
The product page directs interested organizations to contact sales and does not display a platform subscription price.Read 7 Oct 2026 · clarivate.com
Rating on Android app
4.45 out of 5 from 540 ratingsRead 15 Oct 2026 · appbrain.com
Rating on G2
4.9 out of 5 from 11 reviewsRead 15 Oct 2026 · g2.com
Rating on iOS app
4.51 out of 5 from 47 ratingsRead 15 Oct 2026 · appbrain.com
Release news
The June 18, 2026 release let Research Assistant summarize across all Core Collection data while locking documents outside an institution’s entitlement and adding AI-generation disclaimers to exports.Read 15 Oct 2026 · webofscience.zendesk.com
Research Assistant
The AI Research Assistant supports question answering, topic exploration, seminal-paper retrieval, literature reviews, author and institution analysis, visualizations and journal recommendations.Read 15 Oct 2026 · webofscience.zendesk.com
Research coverage
The platform page lists more than 34,000 journals, 288 million metadata records and 3.4 billion citation links.Read 7 Oct 2026 · clarivate.com
Researcher profiles
Researcher Profiles provide citation reports, profile export, Author Impact Beamplots and geographic citation maps; former Publons profiles were migrated into Web of Science.Read 15 Oct 2026 · webofscience.help.clarivate.com
Search features
The service supports Boolean and proximity operators, lemmatization and exact-search controls; an All Fields query is limited to 49 Boolean or proximity operators.Read 15 Oct 2026 · webofscience.help.clarivate.com
Security compliance
Clarivate lists Web of Science as ISO 27001 certified and associated with PCI-DSS and TX-RAMP Level 1 compliance.Read 15 Oct 2026 · clarivate.com
System requirements
The web application recommends current Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge or Safari browsers.Read 15 Oct 2026 · webofscience.zendesk.com

Plans and prices

Web of Science My Research Assistant free version Free Freely available Topic searches · up to 3 saved feeds · maximum 25 recent results from the past five years Read 15 Oct 2026 · clarivate.com
Web of Science API Expanded — Advanced Priced on request 3 requests per second · 1,000,000 full records per year Read 7 Oct 2026 · developer.clarivate.com
Web of Science API Expanded — Basic Priced on request 2 requests per second · 50,000 full records per year Read 7 Oct 2026 · developer.clarivate.com
Web of Science API Expanded — Intermediate Priced on request 2 requests per second · 250,000 full records per year Read 7 Oct 2026 · developer.clarivate.com
Web of Science API Expanded — Premium Priced on request 5 requests per second · 3,000,000 full records per year Read 7 Oct 2026 · developer.clarivate.com
Web of Science institutional subscription Priced on request Institutional subscription; price quote required Access depends on subscription depth · institutional users Read 15 Oct 2026 · clarivate.com
Web of Science platform Priced on request Institutional subscription; price not listed on the product page Read 7 Oct 2026 · clarivate.com

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Strong points and limits

Strong points

  • Multidisciplinary scholarly and patent coverage
  • Includes billions of citation links
  • Research Assistant supports multilingual natural-language search
  • Exports records to EndNote
  • ORCID publication synchronization available

Limits

  • No free plan
  • Platform pricing is available only on request
  • Research Assistant requires institutional access
  • API plans have request and record limits

Who it suits

It suits researchers, universities, research institutions, governments, funders, publishers, and research-intensive corporations. API users need a paid licence and registered application.

Verdict

Web of Science offers broad literature, citation, and content-type coverage with discovery tools and institutional integrations. Organizations must request platform pricing, and API or Research Assistant access has separate requirements.

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