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Cited/Citing Reference Searching and Journal Ranking Sources

• Cited Reference Searching Allows Researchers to...
• Cited/Citing Reference Searching via Web of Knowledge
• Journal Impact Factors: ISI
• Other Databases with Citing/Cited Reference Search Options

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/Citing Reference Searching via Web of Knowledge

Connect to 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.

ISI WOK Training Materials:

• Web of Knowledge: Live, Recorded and other Training Materials
• Web of Science v 8.0 Workbook

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

Journal Impact Factors: ISI

New Resource - Journal Citation Reports within ISI Web of Knowledge: JCR® Web offers a science and social science edition with a systematic means to evaluate leading journals. It provides quantifiable, statistical information based on citation data. JCR will allow you to:

Connect directly to JCR® Web or find within ISI Web of Knowledge under the Additional Resources tab.

• Look up the impact factor for a specific journal title
• View five year trends of citation impact for journals
• Compare journals in the same field
• See a yearly count of the number of articles published in a journal
• Benchmark the age of cited articles
• Quantify source data
• And more ...

See Also: ScienceWatch.com's SCI-BYTES which profiles the top ten in specific disciplines each month, formerly called Science Gateway.

JCR Training Materials:

• Journal Citation Reports v 4.0 Quick Reference Card
• Journal Citation Reports v 4.0 Seminar Guide

Other Databases with Citing/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	Restricted to...
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 More, 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 Author Search Type the author's name in and click Go From results, click AbstractPlus At the bottom of record for article, check for Citing Documents More...	1988+
JSTOR - Citation Locator Historical full text archives of academic journals, but current issues not included.	Search for occurences of your citations within full text articles in JSTOR. 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 Click on article to see cited references for an article in JSTOR, if there are any you will see a link to the right of the article image. 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 Type in Author's name choose drop down for author, then Search View article by clicking on title, then on right choose Cited By Another method, from any 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+

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