There’s has always been confusion between SCI, SCIE and SCImago journals. Here’s how you differentiate them:

  • SCI stands for Science Citation Index and was formed by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) and created by Eugene Garfield. It is now owned and maintained by Thomson Reuters.
  • SCIE stands for Science Citation Index Expanded is a bibliographic database. It is created by Eugene Garfield and owned by Thompson Reuters as well.
  • SCImago Journal is named after the SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) indicator. This index is based on SCOPUS database.
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