Remove Web of Science (#180)

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diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -8,19 +8,18 @@ The project is versioned using [CalVer](https://calver.org/).
 
 ### Added
 
-- Added checker "Escaped Ampersands": `check_ampersands.py` which checks all CSV journals in the folder `journals` to make
-sure all instances of ampersands are unescaped
+- Added checker "Escaped Ampersands": `check_ampersands.py` which checks all CSV journals in the folder `journals` to make sure all instances of ampersands are unescaped
 
 ### Changed
 
 - `.github/workflows/tests.yml` contains the script `check_ampersands.py`
 - Minor format changes in `README.md` and `LISENSE.md` as the old GitHub actions check was already failing
-- Found an escaped ampersands using the new script in `journal_abbreviations_dainst.csv` so this was amended.
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+- Found an escaped ampersand using the new script in `journal_abbreviations_dainst.csv` so this was amended.
 
 ### Removed
 
 - `[;<frequency>]` was removed, because it was used very seldom - and the data should be collected at other places.
+- "Web of Science" abbreviation list was removed. The [data source](https://su.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Journal_abbreviations_from_Web_of_Science/3207787) is from 2016 and had serious issues. [#176](https://github.com/JabRef/abbrv.jabref.org/issues/176)
 
 ## 2021-09
 

diff --git a/journals/README.md b/journals/README.md
@@ -13,8 +13,6 @@
 | Geology and Physics                | [`journal_abbreviations_geology_physics.csv`](journal_abbreviations_geology_physics.csv)       | [anonymous user](https://sourceforge.net/p/jabref/patches/164/) and Jonas Lähnemann.           |                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
 | IEEE                               | [`journal_abbreviations_ieee.csv`](journal_abbreviations_ieee.csv)                             | Thomas Arildsen and “eyliu”                                                                    |                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
 | Index Medicus                      | [`journal_abbreviations_medicus.csv`](journal_abbreviations_medicus.csv)                       | Guy Tsafnat                                                                                    | Provides Medline (dotless) abbreviations only.                                                                                                                                                              |
-| ISI Web of Science (with dots)     | [`journal_abbreviations_webofscience-dots.csv`](journal_abbreviations_webofscience-dots.csv)   | Alistair Auffret                                                                               |                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
-| ISI Web of Science (dotless)       | [`journal_abbreviations_webofscience-dotless.csv`](journal_abbreviations_webofscience.csv)     | Alistair Auffret                                                                               |                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
 | Life Science                       | [`journal_abbreviations_lifescience.csv`](journal_abbreviations_lifescience.csv)               | Zé Roberto Ribeiro                                                                             |                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
 | Mathematics                        | [`journal_abbreviations_mathematics.csv`](journal_abbreviations_mathematics.csv)               |                                                                                                | From [MathSciNet](https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet/help/librarians.html) (look for "(CSV file)"), generated by [`update_mathscinet.py`](../scripts/update_mathscinet.py)                               |
 | Mechanical and biomechanical       | [`journal_abbreviations_mechanical.csv`](journal_abbreviations_mechanical.csv)                 | [anonymous user](https://sourceforge.net/p/jabref/patches/151/)                                |                                                                                                                                                                                                             |