Help - With Citation Searching

When searching our databases by keyword or subject term doesn't retrieve what you want in our databases, you can try citation searching.

Citation Searching Explained
Citation searching, sometimes called cited reference searching, refers to finding articles that have cited a previously published older work (i.e. tracing research forward). Click here to read about the benefits and drawbacks of citation searching.

Casual Citation Searching When viewing search results in some of our databases, you will sometimes see links that allow you to do a citation search. Note that newer articles are less likely to have these, as the longer an article has been around, the more likely it is to be cited. The table below identifies some of our products that have this feature and what the links look like. All of these casual citation searching sources below depend upon the extent of their data analysis (which may be limited) and cannot be considered reliable sources for a comprehensive citation search.

Amazon.com		Some books have links for citations; you usually have to scroll down quite a ways to see them. The "learn more" link tells you about the limitations of their citation database. When the book cover image has the "Search Inside" designation, you can mouseover the image to get a screen that has a link to farther down the page where the citation links are.
Blackwell Synergy (As of 6/30/08, Blackwell will be merged into Wiley Interscience.		In the Blackwell product, click on either the "Abstract" or "Full Text HTML" link. Scroll down to the end of the resulting screen to find the listings of the articles that cited the older article.
CSA products:   Psychinfo Sociological Abstracts Social Services Abstracts		In a CSA product, the link " Cited by X" gives you a citation search. If you were to click on the "References" link, you would get a reproduction of the bibliography of the article with additional "Cited by X" links:
Ebscohost products:   America History & Life CINHAL plus Full Text Communication & Mass Media Complete Humanities International Index		In an Ebsco product, the link "Cited References" gives you a reproduction of the bibliography of the cited article. The link "Times Cited in this Database" gives you a citation search.
Google Scholar		Click on the "Cited by" link. See Help With Searching Google Scholar for more about searching this resource. Also, see the product "Publish or Perish" (below)
Highwire Press Journals:   Via Library Catalog Highwire Press Free E-Journals		In a Abstract, Full Text, or PDF view, look at the right for the section "Citing Articles". The "Citing Articles via Highwire" link takes you to lower on the page where there is a links to citing articles. There also may be a link for "Citing Articles via ISI web of Science" and a link to "Citing Articles via Google".
IEEE Explore		From the results list, click on "AbstractPlus". Then look at towards the bottom of the page for "Citing Documents".
JSTOR		From the results list, click on the title of the article. Then look to the right of the resulting page for citing article links.
MathSciNet		Click on the MR number to get a fuller view of the data. Then look for the "Citations" box in the upper right hand corner for links to citation searches.
Sage Journals		From the results list, click on "Abstract" Then look at the right side of the page (usually about halfway down) for the link for "Articles citing this article"
ScienceDirect Warning: ScienceDirect uses Scopus, and we do not have a subscription to Scopus. Thus, you may sometimes be denied access to Scopus. If you do get to Scopus, you will be using a free trial version with limited capabilties.		Click on the title of the article. Then click on the "Cited by" link towards the right side of the window.
Springerlink		Click on the title of an item to get the full record; Then look at the right side of the page (usually about halfway down) for the listing of "Referenced By" articles.
Wiley Interscience		Click on "Abstract" In the abstract view, click on "Citation Tracking" The citation tracking screen gives the citing articles.

There may be more database products that offer this feature.

Deliberate Citation Searching
This type of citation searching involves detailed prior knowledge of a older article. If you know the bibliographic citation for this older article, some products have an interface that are specifically designed for this.

Citebase		"Citebase ( http://www.citebase.org/ ) is currently only an experimental demonstration. Users are cautioned not to use it for academic evaluation yet. Citation coverage and analysis is incomplete and hit coverage and analysis is both incomplete and noisy."
Ebscohost products:   America History & Life CINHAL plus Full Text Communication & Mass Media Complete Humanities International Index		Click on the "Cited References" link and then fill in data from the bibliographic citation of the old article you want to track. If there is more than one item retrieved, you can pick which ones you want to track. You will then get a listing of the articles that have cited the original old article. Warning: this feature does not work very well.
Harzing.com's Publish or Perish		"Publish or Perish ( http://www.harzing.com/pop.htm ) is a software program that retrieves and analyzes academic citations. It uses Google Scholar to obtain the raw citations, then analyzes these and presents the following statistics: Total number of papers Total number of citations Average number of citations per paper Average number of citations per author Average number of papers per author" ( more )
Scifinder Scholar		The printed guide for Scifinder Scholar (Chemical Abstracts) describes how to do a deliberate citation search.

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