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

Google Scholar covers scholarly material found on the Internet - university web pages, journal articles, etc.

CrossRef will restrict your search to full-text journal articles (from participating publishers) - eliminating the other things that Google Scholar would find.

You will find "some" overlap between the results from these 2 resources but you will also find very different things by searching each of them.

CrossRef is a cross-publisher journal article linking system that is in beta test.  There are 45 major journal publishers participating in the program and there is an explanation of it here.  There is not currently an easy way to go directly to a CrossRef search page - but there is a link to it on some of the search pages for publishers who participate in the program.  For example, here is a link to the CrossRef search page from the Nature website.

This search functions very similar to Google but it only searches through the journals from participating publishers.  Like any Google search, you are restricted to simple word searches - but it will search through the full-text of the article for your words. 

The most effective searches for papers with multiple authors - input all the author names - e.g., +smith +brickhouse +liedahl

Combining author last name and a single title word may yield zero results since many reference lists do not contain the actual title of the article, especially in the sciences.