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What are cited references?
Articles, books and other resources listed in a bibliography or "Works Cited" list, or "References" list (example at right).
Why are cited references important?
Locating cited
references is useful for finding current articles on a topic, identifying
the top researchers in a field, and for tenure decisions.
How can I find who has cited a specific author or work?
The ISI Dialog databases
-- SciSearch, Social SciSearch, A&H Search -- were the first databases
to identify cited references; however, cited reference searching is also available
in indexes and full text databases, listed below.
Any full text database may offer the possibility of retrieving
items cited in the bibliography that match the search strategy keywords. Oviatt
library provides access to the following:
- ISI Dialog Citation
Indexes search form provides access to SciSearch, Social SciSearch, Arts
& Humanities. This free and unmediated access provides only limited retrieval: displays the title and year of article citing the work, but it does not display the author of the citing article or its journal title. For a complete citations, contact your Subject Specialist to request a mediated search.
- Arts and Humanities Citation Index (the ISI database through OCLC) complete citation available unmediated
- Google Scholar: a free web search
engine, also helps identify cited references in open access journal articles
and on websites. Read more About
Google Scholar
- Google Books: a free web search
engine, is a growing collection of scanned online books
Guidelines
Cited reference searching should have a search strategy broad enough to allow
for the following pitfalls.
- Search results depend on the content in the database. If a journal that
cited a particular work is not indexed by the database, then a reference
to your work will not appear in your search results. Check to see which
databases index journals that cover your topic. In addition
to the ISI databases, some of the databases listed on Databases A-Z may offer additional cited reference coverage.
- Search all permutations of the cited author's name: last name; last name
and first initial; last name, first and middle initials.
- For some articles, only the first author may be indexed. If someone is
the second or third author, remember you should also search by the lead
author to locate the cited references.
- Journals use different formats for articles cited. Beware of inconsistency
in citation format such as misspellings, incorrect years or volume numbers.
Citation databases and indexes are minimally edited.
- Names of authors and titles in foreign languages and non-Roman script may required extra effort in determining how they are transcribed or transliterated in each database.
- Cited reference searching works best for references to periodical articles.
- If you locate only a few or no cited references to an article, consider
whether the research may be too recent.
Search Tips for Specific Databases
Databases with Direct Cited Reference Searching
Tips for Indirect Cited Reference Searching (search for the specific author and title, than check who has cited)
ISI
Citation Indexes (including SciSearch,
Social SciSearch, Arts
& Humanities):
(Go to ISI Citation Indexes Dialog search form)
- Check the ISI
Journal list to see if appropriate journals are included in
the database
- Personal names, titles of works and other information appears with
a variety of spellings and misspellings! Search spelling variations
by using the truncation symbol, the question mark (?).
Use the question mark at the root ending of a word, e.g. teen?
- Search Results display minimum information but will give total number
of cited references and the citing article's title.
- If you need to
identify the full reference:
- Search Google Scholar directly, or
- Search for the title in specific databases
appropriate for your subject, or
- Perform a subject-specific Multisearch, which allows you to search up to 10 databases simultaneously (go to Find Articles & Research Data for subject-specific Multisearch links), or
- View the limited record in Dialog and select the Find Text button. This will display a link to our holdings. If our library does not own the resource, select "More" options on the screen which will provide a link to search Google Scholar
- Note the Benefits: This
extra step to identify the full citation may also retrieve the article
itself, as well as additional relevant articles.
CINAHL
(on EbscoHost), PsycINFO (on
EbscoHost ), and Communication
and Mass Media Index (CMMI) on EbscoHost
See also EbscoHost help for cited references
To search cited references, select the Cited References link from the pull down menu under "More" on the toolbar:
or
To search cited references, click the Cited References button,
visible in both Basic and Advanced Search tabs.
Search by Cited Author, Cited Source, Cited Title, Cited Date, or All
Citation Fields. Use the format Lastname
Initial Initial when searching by Cited Author.
- In the results screen, check boxes next to selected articles and click
the Find
Citing Articles button to
view a list of sources that cite them.
- In the "Citing Articles" screen, click the Cited
References link to view all the references given in a specific
citing article.
Sociological
Abstracts (CSA)
(Go to Sociological Abstracts)
- Set the field chooser on the far right to References, RE= and
type in the author name(s) and/or title for which you wish to
find citations.
- Click
individual items in the results list to view references
citing the author or title you searched. Click the "Cited
by [NUMBER]" link next to the citation to find
more articles containing that citation.
![list of references also pick up the Cited by [number]](citedreferences_files/CSA2.gif)
|ScienceDirect
(Go to ScienceDirect)
Search within References to locate journal articles that have
cited an article, patent or conference paper. For some articles published
by Elsevier Group, use the Cited by link in the full record display
to locate newer article(s) that have cited that article. This feature
is an exact word match in the reference list of each article. The result
of this search is heavily dependent on whether the reference is entered identically
in the database. It is important to try all possible formats. To begin,
click on All Sources then search the References.
When viewing an individual article, you can find articles that cite that article's references by clicking the Cited by in Scopus link at the end of each reference citation.
Emerald
(Go to Emerald)
Emerald provides "Cited by" information in the abstract view for an article. A reference may be discovered through a keyword search.
Sage
(Go to Sage)
Sage provides a search of references
But if the article is published in Sage journals, it provides a powerful "Cited by" option.
|SciFinder Scholar's Chemical Abstracts
Connect to SciFinder Web
From the list of search results, select the reference(s) you want to trace and click the Get Citing link.
PubMed
Central (PMC) and PubMed
(Go to PubMed Central (PMC) and PubMed)
PubMed Central (PMC) is a full-text
database. To search
for references cited in the full text articles,
- Select PMC in the drop-down databases menu next to the main search box.
- Click the Preview/Index tab, then set the drop down "search field" menu
to Reference or Reference Author.
- Type search terms in the adjacent text box (for author, type author’s
last name first initial(s)) and click the Preview button.
Preview will display the search strategy in the main search box and link
its retrieval under the "Most Recent Queries" section of the page. You
can add multiple terms to a single search by clicking the AND, OR,
or NOT buttons.
- Click the Go button in the main search box to view the
search results.
Example: PMC search for Reference Author pauling
l AND Reference vitamin
c:
You
cannot search cited references in PubMed directly, but you can find citations
and citing articles available in PMC.
JSTOR
Keyword Search will retrieve author's name in the references as well as the full text article the author has written. Linked references will take you to the full text of the article if it is in JSTOR. If the original article is in JSTOR, it will show the number of articles cite the author's work and provide a link to Google Scholar.
|Google Scholar
(Go to Google Scholar)
The following is a sample retrieval. Note the link at the end which
states:"Cited by" and gives a number.
[CITATION] The Nature of the Chemical Bond-Web Search L
Pauling, RB Corey
Cited by 2455 Ithaca:
Cornell Univ. Press, 1960
Cited Reference Tutorials on the web
Several libraries have created helpful web pages guiding their own patrons
on how to find cited references. These may be helpful but remember to return
to Oviatt library's
databases to search CSUN resources.
Need more help?: Ask a Librarian for Help
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