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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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Citation Tracker....

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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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• Contact us!

medical.library@umich.edu

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>