由ISI機構提供的各項引用文獻資料庫的高使用率，可知學術期刊的引用 文獻資料一皇受到學術界的重視。然而，ISI收錄的中文期刊比率甚低，無法反 應中文期刊引用的真實情形。中國大陸地區對於中文學術期刊引用資料庫的建 置工作比臺灣早起步，分別於1996年與1999年出版光碟版CSCI與CSSCI引 用文獻資料庫。國科會則於1996年進行TSCI的先導型計畫，並於1999年在 中央研究院與國立臺灣大學分別成立社會科學研究中心與人文學研究中心1並 進行國内社會科學期刊與人文學期刊引用文獻資料庫的建置工作。本文說明國 内外引用文獻資料庫的發展現況，包含美國、中國大陸、臺灣等地區目前的各 種引用文獻資料庫，提供國内學界參考。

The high utility rate of citation index databases provided by ISI vindicates the fact that academic journals have long been highly valued by researchers. However， Chinese journals contained in ISI are few? and cannot reflect how Chinese academic journals are being used. Mainland China initiated projects to construct databases and published CD-ROMs on Chinese Science Citation Index (CSCI) in 1996 and Chinese Social Science Citation Index (CSSCI) in 1999. In Taiwan, the National Science Council also initiated a pilot project to construct Taiwan Science Citation Index (TSCI) in 1996} and set up in 1999 two research centers—Social Science Research Center and Humanities Research Center-jointly with Academia Sinica and National Taiwan Universityj whose task is to construct Taiwan Social Science Citation Index (TSSCI) and Taiwan Humanities Citation Index (THCI). This article describes the development and construction of various citation index databases in ISI? Mainland China, and Taiwan.