Cited Reference Searching  Tags: citation indexes self-citations cited_reference google_scholar crossref impact_factors journal_analysis  

Resource Name & Link

Hot button name

Search within Ref Lists?

Search within full-text?

Special Notes

ACM Digital Library
(computer science)

n/a

Not possible.

Advanced search defaults to searching all information.

Allows you to see references and also “citings” within ACM Digital.

Amazon.com
(all disciplines)

Search inside this book

Not specifically.

No longer works.

Amazon appears to have recently disabled this search feature.

American Chemical Society journals

n/a

Not possible.

Search “anywhere in the article”

Annual Review of...series
(mainly science with some social science)

n/a

Not possible.

Search within “full text”

Search button in top middle of page.

ASABE Technical Library
(agri & bio engineering)

n/a

Yes.

“find words anywhere” is more effective than searching within references.

Will not search through PDF – only HTML. Not possible to search refs in pre-2001 articles.

Blackwell-Synergy journals
(all disciplines)

n/a

Use Advanced Search page option for “citation author”

Full text search does not search reference lists.

Difficult to narrow down to a specific citation if author name is common.

Citebase
(physical science & medicine)

n/a

Not specifically.

Yes

Experimental!! Read the Help page for search details

CiteSeer (computer & information science)

Citations

Yes

Yes

Civil Engineering Abstracts

n/a

Not possible.

Use “find anywhere”

CrossRef
(all disciplines)

n/a

Yes

Yes

Google-like search so use + in front of terms to ensure they are included in results

Emerald journals (engineering, applied science)

n/a

Use Advanced Search page – “all fields”

Yes. Advanced Search will find references in full text using the “all fields” search.

Extenza journals (all disciplines)

n/a

Not possible.

Yes.

Full text search option appears to be searching references but is actually pulling up occurrences in the body of the article.

Gigablast
(deep web search engine)

n/a

Not possible.

Yes

Will find refs in Word, Excel, PDF, etc.

Google Books

n/a

Not possible.

Yes. Recommend combination of author name and some keywords from the title.

May have misleading results. No guarantee author name will be near keywords.

Google Scholar
(all disciplines)

n/a

Not specifically

Yes

Recommend searching with author name inverted as well as non-inverted.

Highwire Press journals
(mostly medicine and science)

“Articles citing this article”

Yes.

Yes.

Author search pulls up articles BY an author as well as any time that author name shows up in a list of references in Highwire.

IEEE Xplore (electrical engineering)

Will show references but does not appear to have option to restrict search to just references.

Use Advanced Search and change to search within “full text & all fields”

Clicking on “abstracts plus” will show “citing documents” within IEEE. Not available on pre-1995 articles.

Institute of Physics journals

n/a

Will show references but does not appear to have option to restrict search to just references.

Search within full text will search only PDF files.

JSTOR
(all disciplines)

n/a

Advanced search within full text will pull up author names in references.

Advanced search within full text will pull up author names in references.

MathSciNet

Author citations

Author Citations Tab

n/a

In results list, can also click on PDF to see if it has been cited by others in MathSciNet.

Mechanical & Transportation Engineering Abstracts

n/a

Not possible.

Use “find anywhere”

Nature Journals Online
(science & medicine)

n/a

Will show references but does not appear to have option to restrict search to just references.

Searching full text will pull up names anywhere – including in the list of references.

Full text articles contain a hotlink to Web of Science records for cited ref info.

NetLibrary (electronic books in many subject areas)

n/a

Not possible.

Search in full text will pull up occurrences in references.

To access NetLibrary for the first time, you need to create an account from a workstation WITHIN the library.

PubMed
(medicine)

n/a

Not possible.

Search for a particular article in the database. Then, click box next to the article on the results page. Look for “Display” near top of page and use drop-down box to change display to “cited in PMC”

ScienceDirect journals
(science and economics)

“Cited By”

Advanced Search has option for searching within References.

Yes.

In results list, clicking on SummaryPlus or FullText + Links will show references.
Often brings back incorrect results.

SciFinder Scholar
(chemistry)

Offers options for Cited References and also Citing References using the “Get Related” button.

Not possible.

Locate a specific article using a topic or author search – and look at full record – look for Get Related button.

Cited references will only retrieve the ones indexed in SciFinder.

SpringerLink journals
(science, technology, and medicine)

n/a

Not possible.

Use search box for “all text”

All text search will pull up names in references if the article is available full text online.

Web of Science

Use Cited Ref Search.

Use Cited Ref Search.

n/a

Not possible to search references using title words.