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This guide covers search techniques and resources that offer the ability to search the list of references (or footnotes) found in journal articles, books, websites, etc.
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Recorded Training

  • Cited Reference Searching in WoS  
      
    6:54 mins - Learn the basics of Web of Science's powerful citation search capabilities
  • Create Citation Reports in WoS  
      
    5:40 mins - Learn how to quickly create and export a report that details citation activity to an author's publications. Each ISI Web of Science citation report includes a calculated h-index which is also discussed in this presentation.
  • Citation Alerting in WoS  
      
    4:17 mins - Learn how to keep up to date on who is citing your work or the work of others within your field of research.
 

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Guide created on 12/11/07.

Text last updated on 8/20/09.

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What is it?

Cited Reference searching is the ability to search the list of references (or footnotes) found in journal articles, books, dissertations, websites, etc.  It is based on the premise that you have a scholarly work in-hand that you really like and you want to see who else has used that work in their research - ergo, have included it in their list of references (or footnotes).  Typically, cited reference searching involves looking for works by a particular author or for a specific piece.
 

Be Aware!

There is not just one source for cited reference information - regardless of what discipline you are researching.  Furthermore, there is not a way to determine the number of times a given article/book has been read or photocopied, and/or distributed; however, the electronic age has definitely given us more options for collecting data about their usefulness.
 

Traditional Citation Indexes

Senior faculty members often send graduate students or staff over to the library to use what they have always called "citation indexes."  What they are referring to are the 3 discipline-based indexes called Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.  These 3 indexes have been replaced by the Web of Science (WoS).

Web of Science is the web version of the indexes mentioned above.  Like its predecessors, it covers core journals in all disciplines.  The web version offers the ability to search for any author - researchers are no longer restricted to just the first author of a paper.  Note that there are no article titles in WoS reference lists - so it is not possible to search for cited references by article title words in WoS.

 

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