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ERA: Citation Analysis for Journals

The following resources are tools that can be used to track citations.

All disciplines:
Web of Science

The Web of Science database is a key provider of citation information. It includes the Science, Social Sciences, and Arts and Humanities Citation Indexes. It enables users to search current and retrospective information from approximately 8,500 of the most prestigious, high impact research journals in the world. It also lists how many times an article has been cited and who has sited it.

  1. Go to the ISI Web of Knowledge database
  2. Select the Web of Science
  3. Select the Cited Reference Search option
  4. Select the relevant citation database. Change the dates to cover the ERA period.
  5. Enter the authors name, cited work or year. (Cited work refers to the publication in which the work appeared). i.e. Enter the authors name, cited work or year. (Cited work refers to the publication in which the work appeared). i.e. Beilharz, P*
  6. Click Search to display the Cited Reference selection page, which lists the references that match your search criteria.
  7. From the Cited Reference selection page you can
    • Select references of interest by clicking individual checkboxes
    • Click on the Select Page button (which selects all the references on the current page) or
    • Click on the Select All button (which selects all references for that name)
  8. Click on the Finish Search button to retrieve the articles that cite the selected references.

You can also use the Web of Science Analyse tool which allows you to rank the prominent authors, journals, subjects etc.

  1. Go to the ISI Web of Knowledge database
  2. From the ISI Web of Knowledge page select Web of Science
  3. Select the General Search option. Do a search on a topic or keyword and click on the Submit button.
  4. On the right hand side of the results screen you will see an Analyze Results option. Click on the Analyze button.
  5. This allows you to sort and analyze the results of your search.
Scopus

Scopus is a bibliographic database containing details for over 15,000 peer-reviewed journals.

  1. Go to the Scopus database
  2. On the Scopus page select Author Search tab
  3. Enter the authors' details.
  4. The results show the number of authors corresponding to the search query. Tick the boxes for all correct versions of the name and then select the Show documents button. All articles associated with that author are now listed.
  5. Browse through the list of citations until you have identified the correct citation. You can also use the Refine Results feature to limit to by Source Title, Year or Subject Area.
  6. Tick the box next to the relevant citation and then click on the Citation Tracker button. This will retrieve a list of citations received since 1996. From here you can sort documents, view the full references etc.
Cambridge Scientific Abstracts

Includes Ageline, DAAI: Design and Applied Arts Index, Econlit, ERIC, Index Islamicus
LLBA: Linguistics & Language Behaviour Abstracts, Social Services Abstracts, Sociological Abstracts

  1. Go the to Cambridge Scientific Abstracts database page
  2. From the CSA homepage page select the database(s) you wish to search.
  3. Click on the Continue to search link
  4. Select the Advanced search. (This option allows you to search for authors)
  5. Type the last name of the author in the search box. Choose Select Author, AU= from the drop down box (to the right of the screen). 
  6. Click on the Search button.
  7. If the article has been cited by others, a Cited by link will appear below the article abstract. Click on this link to go to those references.
Citebase

Citebase is currently only an experimental demonstration. Users are cautioned not to use it for academic evaluation. It is a semi-autonomous citation index for free, online research literature. It harvests pre- and post- prints, links their references and indexes the metadata in a search engine. Citebase contains articles from physics, maths, information science, and (published only) biomedical papers.
Search tip: separate author’s names by semi-colons. Surnames and forenames need to be separated by commas.

Current Contents (via Web of Knowledge)
  1. Go to the ISI Web of Knowledge database
  2. Select Current Contents Connect.
  3. Select the General Search option. Do a search on a topic or keyword and click on the Submit button.
  4. On the right hand side of the results screen you will see an Analyze Results option. Click on the Analyze button. This will rank authors, journals, institutions etc.
Google Scholar

Google scholar provides a simple way to search for scholarly literature. It searches across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. In many cases it includes the number of citations a publication has received.

  1. Go to the Google Scholar page
  2. Select the Advanced Scholar Search link (to the right of this page).
  3. Enter the author’s name in the ‘Return articles written by’ field. Type their initial followed by their family name i.e. “P Singer”
  4. You can also enter further details such as the name of the publication or article keywords.
  5. You will see a list of subject headings towards the bottom of the scholar search screen. If you select any of these subject areas it will reduce the number of results.
  6. Click on the Search Scholar button to perform the search.
  7. If the reference has been cited by others, a Cited by link will appear below the citation.
    Click on the link to go to those references.
Ingenta Connect
  1. Go the to  Ingenta database page
  2. Search the database to find a citation
  3. Click on the title of the article to retrieve further information
  4. If a record contains `cited by’ information, you should see a link that says Articles that cite this article 2.
  5. Click on this link to display the results.
OVID Databases
  1. Go the to OVID database page.
  2. Connect to OVID and select the required databases.
  3. Search the database.
  4. Under each citation you will see a Finding Citing Articles link. This only links to citations/articles that appear in the Journals@Ovid database (mainly health sciences titles).
Science Direct
  1. Go the to Science Direct database page
  2. Search the database to find a citation
  3. Click on the abstract or summary link to retrieve further information.
  4. On the right hand side of the screen you will see a green table, with a Cited By link. Click on this link to retrieve available citations.
Thomson National Citation Reports

The National Citation Report is an electronic database of a nation's journal articles in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. The dataset contains all standard bibliographic information for each paper indexed plus year by year and total citation counts for each paper. There is a linked file of expected citation rates for each paper, based on the journal title, publication year and document type (article, review, editorial, etc.).
To obtain a copy of the National Citation Report CD-ROM please see your Subject Librarian.

Finding personal citation data
  1. From the main table highlight Articles.  This function provides a bibliographic table of all source articles in the database.
  2. If you want to limit your search further, click on the Restrict Search button. This allows you to restrict your search by year, author, organization, keyword, country, abstract, title word, field etc.
  3. Click on Run Analysis.
  4. A datasheet of all articles in the database will appear.
  5. Click on the Sort Options drop down menu (from the database tool bar) to sort results by author, total cites, expected cite counts, journal, year etc.
  6. Double click on a source paper’s Cites number to display a citation time-series graph.
Summary by author/country/field/organisation or type of article

Summary information is available on the main bibliographic items in the dataset.

  1. Highlight one of the Summary analyses on the main screen i.e. summary by author.
  2. If you want to limit your search further, click on the Restrict Search button. This allows you to restrict your search by year, author, organization, keyword, country, abstract, title word, field etc.
  3. Click on Run Analysis.
  4. The resulting summary table will list the total number of citations; summarized item (author, country, field, journal, organization or type of article); total number of papers; and the average cites per paper.
  5. Click on the Sort Options drop down menu (from the database tool bar) to sort results by author, total cites, expected cite counts, journal, year etc.
  6. Double click on any cell in the Cites column to view a table of the citing papers for the summary item.
  7. Double click on a cell in the Papers column of the summary screen to view a table of the source papers associated with the summary item.
Wiley InterScience
  1. Go the to Wiley InterScience database page
  2. Select the  Advanced Search option
  3. Search the database to find a citation
  4. Click on the abstract to retrieve further information.
  5. From this page you should see a Citation Tracking link in the article navigation bar. Click on this link to display available citations.  Citations for Wiley InterScience content are displayed separately from citations from other publishers. Wiley InterScience citations include links to the abstract, references, and full text articles, where available. Citations to articles from other publishers can be accessed by clicking on the hyperlinked article title.
Business:
Emerald
  1. Go the to  Emerald database page
  2. Select the  Advanced Search option
  3. Search the database to find a citation
  4. Click on the title of the article to retrieve further information.
  5. If a record contains 'cited by' information, you should see a link that says "4 Articles citing this article" (this appears directly below the abstract).

The Emerald website also contains journal descriptions providing details of "Top 20" article downloads from each of its publications. This includes:

  • Top 20 in current year
  • Top 20 in previous year
  • Top 20 archive since monitoring began, usually from 2001
  • Top 20 by immediate impact (first 6 months after month of publication)

To find this information:

  1. Browse the list of Emerald journals
  2. Select the required journal and look for the link Most Downloaded Articles
REPEC

RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (http://repec.org) is a volunteer-driven initiative to create a public-access database that promotes scholarly communication in economics and related disciplines.

  1. Search RePEc at http://ideas.repec.org/search.html
  2. Select the Keyword of Author Search option
  3. Enter and author's name or keyword
  4. Search the database to find a citation
  5. When viewing results, select under the heading Works: Citations (if any) or Access and Download Statistics (for abstract views and document downloads by month)
SmealSearch

Hosted at Penn State's Smeal College of Business, the search engine crawls websites of academia, commerce, research institutes, government agencies, etc. for academic business documents in PDF or PostScript (PS) formats, including published articles, working papers, white papers, consulting reports. SMEALSearch attempts to generate a citation analysis for all the academic articles harvested and ranks them in order of their citation rates (the most cited articles are listed first) similar to the ranking of CiteSeer and the Google Scholar. It is based on the computer and information science engine, CiteSeer.IST.

  1. Search SmealSearch at http://smealsearch2.psu.edu/
  2. To search the full text document for a subject or author's name select the Documents button, enter your search terms, then select Search Documents
  3. To see where an author or document has been cited select the Citations button and enter a specific author's name and select Search Citations
  4. To return all citations by an author use the last name only or enter all variants found in citations separated with "or", for example:
    drucker
    peter drucker or p drucker
    drucker and (p.f. or p or peter f. or peter or peter ferdinand)
Law:
LawBook Journals
  1. Go the to LawBook Journals database page
  2. Connect to the database
  3. Tick the boxes against the journals you wish to search
  4. Enter your search terms in the search box
  5. Example: "g* walker"@3
    Finds documents with 'G' or 'Gordon' and 'Walker' within 3 words, in any order. This will retrieve GW Walker, Gordon R Walker, Gordon Walker, Walker G etc. and things you didn’t really want like Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe!
LexisNexis AU
  1. Go the to LexisNexis AU database page
  2. Connect to the database
    This searches: Australian Bar Review, Australian Journal of Corporate Law, Australian Journal of Family Law, Australian Journal of Labour Law, Australian Property Law Journal, Competition and Consumer Law Journal, Insurance Law Journal, Journal of Contract Law, Torts Law Journal
    Overlaps with Australian journals on Lexis.com
  3. Click on More Options
  4. Select Journals -> Done
  5. Enter search terms
    Example: gordon w/5 walker -This will retrieve Gordon R Walker and Gordon Walker
  6. View the Exanded List of results via the dropdown menu. This allows you to see the search terms.
Science and Technology:
IEEE Explore
  1. Go to the IEEE Explore database page
  2. Select the  Advanced Search option
  3. Search the database to find a citation
  4. Click on the Abstract Plus link. Citing documents from either IEEE or IEE publications will be listed at the bottom of the page.
CiteSeer and SMEALSearch

These free sites are both from Penn State University. Both can be used to obtain "cited by" information. CiteSeer mainly contains references in the Computer and Information Science field; but it also contains many general science articles. SmealSearch contains references in the academic Business field. Both use the same search engine, which "autonomously" gathers articles from online repositories and elsewhere on the web. They are a useful source for otherwise hard to obtain material such as preprints, white papers and other government and agency reports.