Cited Reference Searching

Gurpreet K. Rana

Taubman Medical Library

Health Sciences Libraries

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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 backward in 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...

Traditional Searching: Looking back...

1982 paper1982 paper

1957 paper1957 paper1957 paper1957 paper1996 paper1996 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....

Cited Reference Searching: Looking back....

1982 paper1982 paper1996 paper1996 paper

1957 paper1957 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 and forward....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 paper2004 paper

2003 paper2003 paper

1982 paper1982 paper1996 paper1996 paper

1957 paper1957 paper

Cited Reference Searching: Looking back and forward....Cited Reference Searching:

Looking back and forward....

1987 paper1987 paper 1993 paper1993 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 paper2004 paper

2003 paper2003 paper

1982 paper1982 paper1996 paper1996 paper

1957 paper1957 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)

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....

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

• Contact us!

medical.library@umich.edu

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>