Measure your Research Performance

 Citation searching is a different way of searching from standard literature searching or entering keywords on a topic. You may want to search for a specific journal article to see who else has cited it:

• To track your own research - who is citing you?
• If other researchers cite your papers, you may want to keep up with their research too.
• If you are having difficulty finding information on a topic, but you have found one key article, you can find papers that have cited it since it was written.

A key database for citation searching is Web of Science.
This includes (among others):

• Science Citation Index Expanded (1900-present)
• Social Sciences Citation Index (1900-present)
• Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-present)
• Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Science (1990-present)
• Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Social Science & Humanities (1990-present).

Find citing articles:
1. Access Web of Science (you may need to sign in off-campus).

2. Click on the blue arrow next to Basic Search to choose Cited Reference Search.

3. Enter the author, journal title and/or year information in the fields as shown (use the abbreviation list if you are not sure how a journal title is abbreviated e.g. Journal of Zoology is J ZOOL).

4. If you find more than one item, click View Record. Use the options at the right to see citing articles and citation mapping.

Google Scholar also has options for citation searching.

1. Search for the item you are looking for. Results depends a lot on how the author name is entered. Try searching only the author's last name together with the main title in quotation marks.
​2. Click on "Cited by" under the record to see who has cited the item.

Be aware that Google Scholar does not index all scholarly articles. It includes an array of sources in "cited by", including PowerPoints and Word documents.

If you find an item where the full text is not linked to from Google Scholar, check LibrarySearch for paid-for journal articles.