Citation Searching

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Citation Searching

• Isabel Holowaty
• isabel.holowaty_at_ouls.ox.ac.uk
• Juliet Ralph
• juliet.ralph_at_ouls.ox.ac.uk

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Aim

• What is it
• How does it work
• Features Pitfalls
• Demonstrations
• Hands-on
• Questions

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Citation indexing

• Invented in 1961 by Eugene Garfield at the
  Institute for Scientific Information (ISI)
• Scientific abstracting/indexing services began in
  19th century, recording author/title/publisher/jou
  rnal for articles and indexing them
• Garfield added details of all references quoted
  in the article and indexed them too, publishing
  results as Science Citation Index (SCI)
  originally only in printed form
• Allowed for many new ways of linking articles

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Many new ways?

• For an article youve read
• Find the earlier articles it refers to
• Find later articles which quoted it
• Find related articles which quote some of the
  same references as this one
• So you can trace the progress of ideas backwards,
  sideways and, uniquely, forwards in time

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Why bother?

• Discover who is citing your research, or that of
  a colleague, or noted authority
• Identify sources of information that competitors
  are consulting for their research
• Assess the impact of an article

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Originally

• Using the paper Science Citation Index was hard
  work
• Now, the electronic version is much quicker
• But can be complex and confusing important to
  understand what it does and doesnt do
• The basic concept of linking documents which cite
  each other, and ranking them according to the
  frequency with which they do so, underpins search
  engines like Google

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Want to know more?

• Wikipedia http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citation_in
  dex

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What is the Web of Science?

• Indexes to the journal literature across all
  subjects
• Science Citation Index
• Social Science Citation Index
• Arts and Humanities Citation Index
• Conference Proceedings
• Web of Science (WoS) is a product offered on the
  platform Web of Knowledge (WoK), alongside other
  products including Journal Citation Reports which
  gives journal impact factors.
• Direct access available on Oxford network
  outside Oxford log in using Single Sign-On

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Searching options

• 1. To find journal articles or book reviews
  (Search)
• 2. To find articles citing a particular work
  (Cited Reference Search)

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General search
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General search
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Cited Reference search (Reverse look-up)
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Cited Reference search
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Features

• All content of a journal is indexed, not just
  articles
• Find illustrations of artistic or musical works
• Citation reports analysis
• Author affiliation searches
• Alerts
• New articles on your subject
• Citation alerts

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Pitfalls

• Foreign language titles are translated!
• Cited works are heavily abbreviated,
  inconsistently referenced and frequently wrong
• Check for Cited Reference Variants
• Remember to save results per page

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Cited Reference links everywhere

• Now a feature of many databases
• Scopus (science, medicine and social sciences)
• Historical Abstracts
• Medline, Embase, PsycInfo, BIOSIS Previews
• and other life science databases on the Ovid
  platform
• Each reference to a paper shows the number of
  times it has been cited in that database
• Look for links such as Cited by, Citing
  articles

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Cited references in Google Scholar

• References include cited by data based on
  articles known to Google Scholar
• Entries ranked by number of cites
• Not possible to save sets or analyse
• Still useful for tracking research

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Related records

• Find similar articles based on shared references.
• Links now appear in databases such as
• Web of Science
• Databases on Ovid platform
• PubMed
• Google Scholar

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Questions

• Web of Science tutorial
• www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/rsl/training/tutorials
• For further help contact your subject librarian
  see http//www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/collections/librarian
  s