Essential Science Indicators Essential Science Indicators Alternative Login - choose Essential Science Indicators from the top menu Access information: Access on or off campus. Description: Science performance statistics and science trends data based on journal article publication counts and citation data from 8,500 multi-disciplinary journals in the Thomson Reuters databases. An analytical tool for data to rank scientists, institutions, countries, and journals. Coverage: The Essential Science Indicators database has been updated as of September 2020 to cover a 10-year and six-month period, January 1, 2010 – June 30, 2020. Data is updated bi-monthly (six times a year). This article was published on 2024-08-21