Cited Reference Searching

Cited Reference Workshop

Citing Scenarios - examples for practice

If you have any questions, e-mail research-lib@wpi.edu or call x6700. We'll do our best to help you. We cannot, however, run searches for you.

Cited Reference Searching Allows Researchers to...

travel forward in time from a published work and view citations that reference back to an original source (article, book, conference presentation, patent)
understand impact of a work (journal article, conference paper, book) as indicated by subsequent citations by other scholars in the field
track development of a theory over the years
identify core researchers in a field

Cited Reference Searching via Web of Science

The standard source for cited reference searches. Our subscription at WPI includes:

Science Citation Index 1980+; abstracts 1991+
Social Science Citation Index 1980+; abstracts 1992+
Arts & Humanities Citation Index 1980+; abstracts 2000+

Prior to 1980: You can obtain the total number of times an article is cited (if it has been after 1980), but you cannot retrieve the actual references.

Web of Knowledge: Recorded Training

Connect to Web of Science

WPI has access for 5 simultaneous users, so if you cannot get in, try again in a few minutes. Logout when you are finished.

To eliminate self citations:

Screen results to exclude those items actually written by the author.

Run cited author search, then select all instances author, click Finish Search.
Go to General Search and run an author search for the author
Click Advanced Search and combine the two searches with a NOT operator: #1 NOT #2

Other Databases with Cited Reference Search Options

Many databases allow cited searching but you will see overlap. Compare cited references from the ISI Web of Science results and manually remove duplicates. Cited references include only those that are indexes within that one particular database. Even by searching Amazon.com now, you can search for instances of your citations within published books.

Database	Search Tips	Coverage
CiteSeer.IST Computer science	Use variations of name: kotter j* or kotter j.p. or kotter john	Varies
EBSCOhost Business Source Premier Business and management	Choose Cited References Or search for article and see Cited References for each item Use variations of name: kotter jp or kotter j.p. or kotter john	1922+
Google Scholar	Search for variations of name using author: tag	Varies
IEEE Xplore Engineering	Click on Search By Author Type the author's name in and click Go Select appropiate name(s) and click Get References From results, click Abstracts At the bottom of page, click Documents that cite this document More...	1988+
JSTOR Historical full text archives of academic journals, but current issues not included.	Searching for occurences of your citations within full text articles in JSTOR. You must still wade through the results, and page through the full text for references. Be aware that there is an embargo for many titles so not all current issues are searchable. Use variations of author and title of work, click Search More...	1855+
MathSciNet	Click the tab Author Citations More...	1940+
PsycINFO American Psychological Association database.	Choose PsycINFO Cited Reference tab Use variations of author and title of work (or truncate first name with , for example: Plous, S), click Search	1887+
ScienceDirect Elsevier publications including humanities, social sciences, and science.	Click Search, then All Sources Type in Author's name choose drop down for author, then Search View Summary Plus of article, then on right choose Cited By Another method, from the All Sources search screen, type in the author w/9 title of work and choose References from drop down (w/9 searches for the author within 9 words of the title of the work) More...	1993+
SciFinder Scholar Chemistry	Click on author search. Enter author's name. Select appropriate name(s) and click Get References Select the record(s) you wish to find cited sources for and click Get Related At next window, click on Citing References More...	1907+

Journal Impact Factors

Although WPI does not subscribe to ISI Journal Citation Reports, which provides quantitative analysis determined by measuring frequency of article citations during a given timeframe. Science Gateway provides access to the top ten in some disciplines. ScienceWatch.com's SCI-BYTES profiles the top ten in specific disciplines each month.

Readings on Impact Factors:

The Thomson Scientific Impact Factor
Sometimes a web search on (JCR OR "impact factors") and your discipline may lead to useful websites such as Business Journals - Ranked by JCR Impact Factor at UMASS
Eigen Factor | Bergstrom, Carl. (2007 May). "Eigenfactor: Measuring the value and prestige of scholarly journals." C&RL News 65(5).

Author Impact Factors

Publish or Perish - software which connects to google scholar then retrieves and analyzes academic citations.

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