Web of Science - Cited Reference Search

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Cited Reference Search

Use this search to find articles from journals that have cited a book, a patent or another article. All 3 citation indexes will be searched from 1972 onwards, by default. Click Change Limits at the bottom of the screen to make different choices

You can search by:

Cited Author:

Enter the last name of the first author of the work as the Cited Author. Secondary authors are also searchable when a cited journal article is a source record in Web of Science. If the citation refers to a journal article published during the time span covered by JCU's subscription to Web of Science (1972+), then you will find a link to the source record. It is advisable to use only the first initial, followed by an asterisk. For example:

• Enter deman p* to search for references to works where P Deman or PE Deman is a cited author.
• Enter hambleton g* OR russell r* to search for references to works where either G Hambleton or RL Russell is a cited author.

Cited Work:

Enter abbreviated titles. Consult the abbreviations list. There may be more than one abbreviation for a title. Use truncation to match variations of several abbreviations for the same title or to find a list of possible titles. For example:

• Enter Geol* to find references to articles published in Geology , Geology Journal (abbreviated as Geol J ), and other publications beginning with Geol .
• Enter acad* med* to look up references containing the journal title Academic Medicine.

Cited Year:

Enter a four-digit year or series of years to indicate when the work was published (for patents, use the date of issue). For example:

• Enter 1995 to look up references to works published in 1995.
• Enter 1994-1996 to specify a range of years

An example of a cited reference search for this journal article follows:

Russ G.R., McCook L.J. (1999). Potential effects of a cyclone on benthic algal production and yield to grazers on coral reefs across the central Great Barrier Reef. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 235 (2), 237-254.

Step 1: Enter some details of the journal article and click search. For example:

• Enter the name of the cited author, truncated after the first initial.
• Enter the journal name in the abbreviated form (found using the list of abbreviations)

Step 2: Select the desired reference and click Finish Search.

Note:

• The same article may sometimes be referenced differently. This is often due to an article's volume, page, or year being cited incorrectly by the citing author. Results of your initial search will be presented in a table listing all of the cited references that match your search request and the number of times each variation has been cited. Select all desired references (including variants) and then click Finish Search to find articles which cite your selected references.
• Secondary cited authors are searchable when a cited journal also exists as a source record in the database. However, to retrieve all variations, you must perform a cited reference search on the first author.
• Sometimes there is no link to a full record because the article was cited incorrectly or because the source record is not in the database.

Step 3: The articles in the Search Results Summary list all cite Russ's article. Click on any of the articles in the summary list to see the full record of that citing article.

If you wish, you can Refine Results by subject area, document type etc.

Clicking on Analyze Results allows you to view rankings of the authors, journals, etc for your set of results.

Managing Results

From the Results page, you can choose one of 5 options to sort your results:

• Latest Date. This is the default sort. Records are sorted in reverse chronological order.
• Relevance. Sorts by how frequently the search term occurs.
• Times Cited. Retrieved records are in descending order by number of times cited.
• First Author. Sorted alphabetically by the first named author.
• Source Title. Sorted alphabetically by the source journal title.

You can check boxes to mark records on the Results page and then click the Add to Marked List button. Clicking on Marked List displays a list of records you have marked during the current session. You can elect to sort your marked list of records by date, author, title or times cited. You can also check boxes beside the fields you wish to include with your records, and then print, save, or email your records. You can also export your records to referencing software such as EndNote.

Search History:

When you perform a search, the results of your search appear in a table which you can access by clicking the Search History button. You can combine your search sets with AND or OR to further refine your search records. For more complex set combinations you should choose Advanced Search .

Citation Alerts

Registered users can click on Create Citation Alert from any Full Record page to receive email alerts on future citations to that record.

Related Records

Related Records are two records that share at least one cited reference. Clicking on Related Records from any Full record page is a way to locate relevant research that cannot be found by traditional subject or author searching.

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