Research areas constitute a subject categorization scheme that is shared by all Web of Science product databases. As a result, you can identify, retrieve and analyze documents from multiple databases that pertain to the same subject.
Research areas are classified into five broad categories:
- Arts & Humanities
- Life Sciences & Biomedicine
- Physical Sciences
- Social Sciences
- Technology
| Arts & Humanities | Life Sciences & Biomedicine | Physical Sciences | Social Sciences | Technology |
| Architecture | Agriculture | Astronomy & Astrophysics | Archaeology | Acoustics |
| Art | Allergy | Chemistry | Area Studies | Automation & Control Systems |
| Arts & Humanities Other Topics | Anatomy & Morphology | Crystallography | Biomedical Social Sciences | Computer Science |
| Asian Studies | Anesthesiology | Electrochemistry | Business & Economics | Construction & Building Technology |
| Classics | Anthropology | Geochemistry & Geophysics | Communication | Energy & Fuels |
| Dance | Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology | Geology | Criminology & Penology | Engineering |
| Film, Radio & Television | Behavioral Sciences | Mathematics | Cultural Studies | Imaging Science & Photographic Technology |
| History | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | Demography | Information Science & Library Science |
| History & Philosophy of Science | Biodiversity & Conservation | Mineralogy | Development Studies | Instruments & Instrumentation |
| Literature | Biophysics | Mining & Mineral Processing | Education & Educational Research | Materials Science |
| Music | Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology | Oceanography | Ethnic Studies | Mechanics |
| Philosophy | Cardiovascular System & Cardiology | Optics | Family Studies | Metallurgy & Metallurgical Engineering |
| Religion | Cell Biology | Physical Geography | Geography | Microscopy |
| Theater | Critical Care Medicine | Physics | Government & Law | Nuclear Science & Technology |
| Dentistry, Oral Surgery & Medicine | Polymer Science | International Relations | Operations Research & Management Science | |
| Dermatology | Thermodynamics | Linguistics | Remote Sensing | |
| Developmental Biology | Water Resources | Mathematical Methods In Social Sciences | Robotics | |
| Emergency Medicine | Psychology | Science & Technology Other Topics | ||
| Endocrinology & Metabolism | Public Administration | Spectroscopy | ||
| Entomology | Social Issues | Telecommunications | ||
| Environmental Sciences & Ecology | Social Sciences Other Topics | Transportation | ||
| Evolutionary Biology | Social Work | |||
| Fisheries | Sociology | |||
| Food Science & Technology | Urban Studies | |||
| Forestry | Women's Studies | |||
| Gastroenterology & Hepatology | ||||
| General & Internal Medicine | ||||
| Genetics & Heredity | ||||
| Geriatrics & Gerontology | ||||
| Health Care Sciences & Services | ||||
| Hematology | ||||
| Immunology | ||||
| Infectious Diseases | ||||
| Integrative & Complementary Medicine | ||||
| Legal Medicine | ||||
| Life Sciences Biomedicine Other Topics | ||||
| Marine & Freshwater Biology | ||||
| Mathematical & Computational Biology | ||||
| Medical Ethics | ||||
| Medical Informatics | ||||
| Medical Laboratory Technology | ||||
| Microbiology | ||||
| Mycology | ||||
| Neurosciences & Neurology | ||||
| Nursing | ||||
| Nutrition & Dietetics | ||||
| Obstetrics & Gynecology | ||||
| Oncology | ||||
| Ophthalmology | ||||
| Orthopedics | ||||
| Otorhinolaryngology | ||||
| Paleontology | ||||
| Parasitology | ||||
| Pathology | ||||
| Pediatrics | ||||
| Pharmacology & Pharmacy | ||||
| Physiology | ||||
| Plant Sciences | ||||
| Psychiatry | ||||
| Public, Environmental & Occupational Health | ||||
| Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging | ||||
| Rehabilitation | ||||
| Reproductive Biology | ||||
| Research & Experimental Medicine | ||||
| Respiratory System | ||||
| Rheumatology | ||||
| Sport Sciences | ||||
| Substance Abuse | ||||
| Surgery | ||||
| Toxicology | ||||
| Transplantation | ||||
| Tropical Medicine | ||||
| Urology & Nephrology | ||||
| Veterinary Sciences | ||||
| Virology | ||||
| Zoology |