Overview
The purpose of article-level metrics is to establish the impact of an article. The most common way of evaluating this is to count the number of times an article has been cited in other articles.
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Web of Science
Cited Reference Searches in Web of Science
- Open Web of Science and select "Cited Reference Search" from dropdown menu
- Enter author's name, the work's source, and/or publication year for the cited work
- Select the items for which you want to see cited references, or click "Select All"
- "Finish Search" to retrieve results
- Web of Science This link opens in a new windowCited references in all disciplines in the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Drawn from the top 15% of scholarly journals in more than 250 categories.
Web of Science Core Collection includes: Citation Indexes, Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Conference Proceedings Citation Index–Science, Conference Proceedings Citation Index–Social Science & Humanities, Book Citation Index–Science, Book Citation Index–Social Sciences & Humanities, Emerging Sources Citation Index, Current Chemical Reactions, Index Chemicus.
Other databases included in "All Databases" search:
- BIOSIS Citation Index: covering pre-clinical and experimental research, methods and instrumentation, animal studies, and more.
- Current Contents Connect: tables of contents and bibliographic information from leading scholarly journals and books.
- Data Citation Index: data sets from a wide range of international data repositories
- Derwent Innovations Index: patents and patent citations.
- KCI-Korean Journal Database: managed by the National Research Foundation of Korea.
- MEDLINE: managed by the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
- Russian Science Citation Index: managed by the Scientific Electronic Library (eLIBRARY.RU), Russia's largest research information provider.
- SciELO Citation Index: open access journals from Latin American, Portugal, Spain and South Africa.
- Zoological Record: taxonomic records, oldest continuing database of animal biology.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar Citations is available at: http://scholar.google.com/citations
It has the following features:
- Authors can track their own publications (tracking of other authors' works is only possible if they have a profile).
- The types of metrics utilized are a simple citation count, h-index, and i10-index.
- Set up automatic updates to the citation metrics.
- Manually update your profile.
- View information on citations for other authors by doing a search for them in Google Scholar and the scholarly metrics information will be listed under the citation information.
Other citation-tracking tools
These specialized databases can supplement other cited reference searches:
- MathSciNet
Search from the author search tab, search Author Profile to see a citation count for the ten most-cited works. Covers only selected publications indexed from around the year 2000.
- PsycInfo
Cited References when available appear in article record, left column. Click to see times each reference cited in the PsychInfo database, beginning around the year 2000.
- PubMed Central
Search by title, click on the box next to the article on the results page, click on the drop-down box near the top of the page and change it from "Display" to “Cited in PMC.”
- ScienceDirect
Search by author or title. Click on the title of the work and then the "Cited by" link.