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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 havecited a specific published work
• Allows you to search the cited references(bibliography) of an article of interest
• Snowballing?!
Significance of cited referencesearching
• Finding current research based on earlierresearch
• Finding how many times and where apublication 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 referencesearching
• Allows you to navigate forward and backwardin time, discovering relationships betweenpublished 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 researchpapers
• Trace the historical path of a research idea ordiscovery
Source: ISI Thomson. Cited Reference Searching in the Web of Science, Slide 2. Accessed onMarch 31, 2007. http://www.brainshark.com/brainshark/vu/view.asp?pi=144957
Traditional Searching:Looking back...
1982paper
1957 paper1996 paper
Source: ISI Thomson. Cited Reference Searching in the Web of Science, Slide 3. Accessed onMarch 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 onMarch 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 onMarch 31, 2007. http://www.brainshark.com/brainshark/vu/view.asp?pi=144957
2004paper
2003paper
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 onMarch 31, 2007. http://www.brainshark.com/brainshark/vu/view.asp?pi=144957
2004paper
2003paper
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 andCITED REFERENCE VARIANTS are in BLACK
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Comments….
• Growing trend towards cited referencesearching
• More databases are adding a citedreference search features
• Web of Science is still considered themajor resource for cited referencesearching
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Reference
ISI Thomson. Online Tutorial: Cited ReferenceSearching in the Web of Science. Accessed on March31, 2007.<http://www.brainshark.com/brainshark/vu/view.asp?pi=144957>