1. WISER: Citiation searching
Citation Searching
Isabel Holowaty
Juliet Ralph
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2. WISER: Citiation searching
Citation indexing
Invented in 1961 by Eugene Garfield at the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI)
Scientific abstracting/indexing services began in 19th century, recording author/title/publisher/journal for articles and indexing them
Garfield added details of all references quoted in the article and indexed them too, publishing results as Science Citation Index (SCI) – originally only in printed form
Allowed for many new ways of linking articles
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3. WISER: Citiation searching
Many new ways?
For an article you’ve read:
Find the earlier articles it refers to
Find later articles which quoted it
Find related articles which quote some of the same references as this one
So you can trace the progress of ideas backwards, sideways and, uniquely, forwards in time
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4. WISER: Citiation searching
Why bother?
Discover who is citing your research, or that of a colleague, or noted authority
Identify sources of information that competitors are consulting for their research
Assess the impact of an article
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5. WISER: Citiation searching
Originally
Using the paper Science Citation Index was hard work
Now, the electronic version is much quicker
But can be complex and confusing – important to understand what it does and doesn’t do
The basic concept of linking documents which cite each other, and ranking them according to the frequency with which they do so, underpins search engines like Google
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6. WISER: Citiation searching
Want to know more?
Wikipedia
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7. What is the Web of Science?
WISER: Citiation searching
What is the Web of Science?
Indexes to the journal literature across all subjects
Science Citation Index
Social Science Citation Index
Arts and Humanities Citation Index
Conference Proceedings
Web of Science (WoS) is a product offered on the platform Web of Knowledge (WoK), alongside other products including Journal Citation Reports which gives journal impact factors.
Direct access available on Oxford network; outside Oxford log in using Single Sign-On
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8. WISER: Citiation searching
Searching options
1. To find journal articles or book reviews (Search)
2. To find articles citing a particular work (Cited Reference Search)
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9. General search Author? Title? Subject? Article A Cited references
Times cited

10. General search

11. Cited Reference search (Reverse look-up)
Cited by whom
& where?
Work B

12. Cited Reference search

13. Features All content of a journal is indexed, not just articles
Find illustrations of artistic or musical works
Citation reports & analysis
Author affiliation searches
Alerts
New articles on your subject
Citation alerts

14. Pitfalls Foreign language titles are translated!
Cited works are heavily abbreviated, inconsistently referenced and frequently wrong
Check for Cited Reference Variants
Remember to save results per page

15. Cited Reference links everywhere
WISER: Citiation searching
Cited Reference links everywhere
Now a feature of many databases
Scopus (science, medicine and social sciences)
Historical Abstracts
Medline, Embase, PsycInfo, BIOSIS Previews
…and other life science databases on the Ovid platform
Each reference to a paper shows the number of times it has been cited in that database
Look for links such as “Cited by”, “Citing articles”
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16. Cited references in Google Scholar
WISER: Citiation searching
Cited references in Google Scholar
References include ‘cited by’ data based on articles known to Google Scholar
Entries ranked by number of cites
Not possible to save sets or analyse
Still useful for tracking research
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17. Related records Find similar articles based on shared references.
Links now appear in databases such as
Web of Science
Databases on Ovid platform
PubMed
Google Scholar

18. Questions Web of Science tutorial
For further help contact your subject librarian – see