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Citation Searching • To trace influence of publications •Tracking authors •Tracking titles

Citation Searching To trace influence of publications Tracking authors Tracking titles

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Citation Searching

• To trace influence of publications•Tracking authors•Tracking titles

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Searching references

• Gives supplementary information• The history of the research area• The origin of ideas and methods• The pattern of the science the original

publication stands on

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Searching citing publications

• Give information on what has been done later on

• The development• How information in the original publication

has been applied• The importance of the original publication

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Searching authors

• Give information on fields of activity• The influence of the published papers• Patterns of citation and cooperation

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Citation searching tools

• Are added to the tool box of search engines

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Citation databases

• Databases created to faciliate citation tracking• Web of Science (With Cited Reference

Search)• Journal Citation Reports• Scopus• Google Scholar• The databases cover all subject fields• Subject specific indexing may not be possible

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Specific citation buzz words

• Citation indexes:• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citation_index

• Impact factors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_factor

• Frequently used in bibliometrics

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Authors with common names

• Seach for a ”known” publication and mark from the list of authors.

• In Scopus: use the author identification number (AU-ID 7006593917)

• Use analysis tools to sort by ”Subject area” or ”Affiliation”.