InCites provides a normalized citation count for each publication stratifying by year of publication, type of publication, and field of science.

Scholars are using existing research and education networks to engineer a new type of publication: scholarly-controlled journals that are electronically produced and disseminated.

All types of publications were included, with the exception of systematic reviews, meta-analyses, opinion letters, editorials, case reports, conference abstracts and comments.

Research had produced a chaotic mountain of results, in a hundred languages and a thousand different types of publication....' He smiled at his memories.