每年，全世界的学者社区和他们所属的专业协会都会组织数以万计的会议，成员们会在会上介绍他们最新研究的论文。在这些聚会上发表的会议论文集以期刊或书籍的形式出版。

Web of Science 在其会议论文集引文索引 (CPCI，老名称ISTP、ISSHP) 的大量文献中仅选择那些对全球最多的研究人员和科学家最重要的出版物。

Conference Proceedings Published in Books

Conference proceedings published as books are acquired and selected according to a set of specialized guidelines. 

The Web of Science Publisher Relations staff is in regular communication with every major scholarly publisher, and many professional societies and associations. These organizations publish and/or sponsor professional conferences and submit their publications for evaluation and possible coverage in CPCI. 

The Web of Science Editorial Development team evaluates each conference proceedings volume according to a set of well-established criteria. They include the following: 

• Basic Publishing Standards: Editors examine each proceedings volume to insure that basic publishing standards are in place including sequential page numbering, timeliness, international editorial conventions such as fully descriptive article titles, and full cited references, author abstracts, and keywords. 

• Content: The overall quality of the research presented is assessed, as is the completeness of the cited references. In addition, the editors review the content to ensure that it enriches Web of Science coverage of a field or subfield, or of a geographic region, or that it completes the coverage of the output of a prestigious scholarly society or organization. Web of Science gives priority to important serialized conferences sponsored by prestigious scholarly societies. The objective is to cover every instance of such conference series. 

• Copyright and Conference Date: To ensure that the content of CPCI is timely, published conference proceedings must fall into a specific date range. 

• For scientific and technical proceedings, the meeting must have been held in the current or previous four (4) years.

• In the social sciences and humanities, the time parameters are broader. All conference dates are accepted for social sciences and humanities proceedings so long as the volume is a first edition and not ever previously indexed. 

These policies take into consideration the greater time sensitivity of information in natural sciences and technology subject areas and the somewhat less urgent time sensitivity of information in the social sciences and humanities. 

• Conference Name and Location: Proceedings literature must include the full name and location of the meeting.

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