Cited Reference Search Tips
Tips
The Cited Reference Search searches bibliographies and footnotes of articles. It allows date limitation of both the citing and the cited articles.
- If you have a pertinent secondary source, you can find more recent articles that cite it and which therefore may also be relevant to your interests.
- It can be used to demonstrate the effect of an article on its academic community by showing who used it and how.
- It can be used as a subject search. If you are interested in a certain author, you can do a cited reference search on your author's work: any articles about your author will cite his/her writings. Thus if you are interested in the 19th century medical statistician and public health worker, Elisha Harris, a search of <Harris e> with date as <1850-1900> yields several papers which discuss him.
If the your author was prolific, you may enter the date or the journal (in the Cited Work field). These specifications are to be avoided where possible, as there are many errors in the citations. Book titles in the citations are very unpredictable. Titles of journals indexed by Web of Science drawn from the list provided may be used. Otherwise, where specification is necessary, the year is safest.
Junior Authors
Cited references included in the list of results of a cited reference search are of two types:
1. Articles which are represented by full records in the Web of Science database. These display in blue and have a <View Record> link.
2. Articles in journals not indexed by the Web of Science and all books display in black and have no links to full records.
Junior authors of articles of type 1 are searched and will be included in the results of cited reference searches. Junior authors of articles of type 2 will not be searched and are invisible in the Web of Science.
Database Help Page
Find more tips at the Web of Science Cited Reference Search Help Page.