Learning outcomes
- Learn how to easily find additional useful publications once a central publication has been identified
Follow the trail of scholarly communication...
Select a relevant, central reference and then check publications that:
- are cited in this central reference, as listed in the reference list. This allows you to go back in time and identify publications that the authors used in their article.
- have cited this central reference, allowing you to go forward in time, and discover more recent articles that built on the work of the central reference.
Tip: You can also track the research outputs and citation activity of a particular author’s published work.
Tools for citation searching
Web of Science cited reference searching
Web of Science Guide explains the importance of cited reference searching, and the process of searching for items that have cited published works within the Web of Science database
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Scopus author search
Scopus explains how to create a citation overview. See also Scopus tutorials for further detail about working with document search results or analysing search results.
Google Scholar cited by
Google Scholar has links to ‘cited by’ articles and the option to ‘search within articles’ once you have searched for a known item.
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Activity
- Identify a useful journal article: search for the article in Web of Science, Scopus and Google Scholar
- Review the publications citing this article – are any useful ?
- Review the cited publications and related publications in Scopus and Web of Science – are any useful?
Comprehensive searching