ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Citation Index

Help researchers capture more early career research alongside other scholarly outputs in a single search.

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Identify emerging areas of research and the post-graduate programs that are engaged in this research.
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More early findings

Surface records for 5.5M+ dissertations and theses alongside journal articles, conference papers, preprints, patents, and books in your Web of Science search results.
A global view

Uncover quality research from graduate students at more than 4,100 universities in over 60 countries around the world in a single search.
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Broad, multidisciplinary coverage of graduate research helps you find cutting-edge discoveries, while daily updates and a suite of alerts help you stay current on a topic.

Clarivate is committed to meeting user feedback and requests promptly. In a recent survey of Web of Science users, researchers expressed their appetite for dissertations and theses as the most desired source of secondary, supplementary content. In response, Clarivate is integrating ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global with the Web of Science in two phases.

Phase 1: Now available, the first phase integrates dissertation and thesis content into the Web of Science platform to offer discovery of a multidisciplinary collection of early career scholarship from over 4,100 institutions across 60+ countries.
Phase 2: We are working quickly to add citation linkages– by the end of 2023. Until then researchers can enjoy the benefit of retrieving unique dissertations and theses content alongside research from varied sources in a single set of Web of Science search results.

5.5 m

dissertations and theses records

4 k+

university content contributors

60 +

countries represented

3.3 M

full text links to documents on ProQuest Platform

^~ 200 K

new full text records added annually