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Cited Reference Searching
Gurpreet K. Rana
Taubman Medical Library
Health Sciences Libraries
© 2007 Regents of the University of Michigan. All rights reserved.
What is Cited Reference Searching?
• Allows you to search for articles that have
cited a specific published work
• Allows you to search the cited references
(bibliography) of an article of interest
• Snowballing?!
Significance of cited reference
searching
• Finding current research based on earlier research
• Finding how many times and where a publication is cited
• Identifying who is referencing a paper
• How is a research topic being used to support other research
• Impact of literature on other research in the field
• Keeping track of your own research
• Used for tenure
Significance of cited reference
searching
• Allows you to navigate forward and backwardin time, discovering relationships between published works – Find new, unknown information based on older,
known information
– Find relevant articles in areas where there is not a large amount of literature
• Find “hidden connections” between research papers
• Trace the historical path of a research idea or discovery
Source: ISI Thomson. Cited Reference Searching in the Web of Science, Slide 2. Accessed on
March 31, 2007. http://www.brainshark.com/brainshark/vu/view.asp?pi=144957
Traditional Searching:
Looking back...
1982
paper1957 paper
1996 paper
Source: ISI Thomson. Cited Reference Searching in the Web of Science, Slide 3. Accessed on
March 31, 2007. http://www.brainshark.com/brainshark/vu/view.asp?pi=144957
Cited Reference Searching:
Looking back....
1982 paper1996 paper
1957 paper
Source: ISI Thomson. Cited Reference Searching in the Web of Science, Slide 3. Accessed on
March 31, 2007. http://www.brainshark.com/brainshark/vu/view.asp?pi=144957
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Cited Reference Searching:
Looking back and forward....
Source: ISI Thomson. Cited Reference Searching in the Web of Science, Slide 3. Accessed on
March 31, 2007. http://www.brainshark.com/brainshark/vu/view.asp?pi=144957
2004
paper
2003
paper
1982 paper1996 paper
1957 paper
Cited Reference Searching:
Looking back and forward....
1987 paper 1993 paper
Source: ISI Thomson. Cited Reference Searching in the Web of Science, Slide 3. Accessed on
March 31, 2007. http://www.brainshark.com/brainshark/vu/view.asp?pi=144957
2004
paper
2003
paper
1982 paper1996 paper
1957 paper
Cited Reference searching:
Science Citation Index (1900 to present)
Social Science Citation Index (1956 to present)
Arts and Humanities Citation Index (1975 to present)
(SocioFile)
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Cited Reference Look-up Table
Cited references in BLUE link to other records.
Citations not indexed in Web of Science and
CITED REFERENCE VARIANTS are in BLACK
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Citation Tracker....
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Comments….
• Growing trend towards cited reference searching
• More databases are adding a cited reference search features
• Web of Science is still considered the major resource for cited reference searching
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Reference
ISI Thomson. Online Tutorial: Cited Reference
Searching in the Web of Science. Accessed on March
31, 2007.
<http://www.brainshark.com/brainshark/vu/view.asp?pi=144957>
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