The Science Citation Index was designed primarily to help the scientist or engineer retrieve relevant literature on specific topics. This database is now on-line as part of ISIs Web of Science and covers over thirty million papers containing nearly a half-billion cited references. For each source paper included, backward and foreward links are provided to the cited and citing papers. ISI also publishes additional databases such as the Journal Citation Reports and Journal Performance Indicators which can provide qualitative and quantitative information on thousands of journals, including impact factors. Using these files and a variety of bibliometric techniques we demonstrate how to identify the core journals of materials science, ceramics, and nanoceramics. Other ISI resources such as ISI Essential Science Indicators identify the leading countries, institutions, and authors of materials science. The output of a WoS search is used to analyze over 10,000 papers on nano-crystals and nano-ceramics. We have identified dozens of highly-cited papers, which are visualized as a series of historiographs and topological maps These HistCite maps and tables demonstrate the chronological development of the field [1].

Keywords: nano-ceramics, Science citation index, Ctation analysis, Web of science, ISI