Research Guides: Education: Citation Searching

Overview

What is citation searching?

Basic citation searching involves tracking references that have cited, or listed in its bibliography, an article, book, or book chapter.
This guide will help you find WHO HAS CITED a given article, book, book chapter, or other publication or author - also known as cited reference searching.

Why do it?

To locate newer material related to a given publication or author.
To see who is citing one (or all) of your publication.
To show the impact of your work by seeing who is citing you. To find other researchers in a field.

Where to do citation searching?

Many databases have a "cited by" link.

Top ones for Education field are:

Web of Science: All Databases
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Easily search across all subscribed products simultaneously using a common set of search fields for the most comprehensive results Including: Web of Science Core Collection, BIOSIS Citation Index, BIOSIS Previews, CAB eBooks Archive, CABI, CAB Abstracts and Global Health, Current Contents Connect, Data Citation Index, Derwent Innovations Index, FSTA-the food science resource, KCI-Korean Journal Database, MEDLINE, Preprint Citation Index, SciELO Citation Index, and Zoological Record.
Google Scholar
Searches for scholarly materials such as peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from broad areas of research. It includes a variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.
Academic Search Complete
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Academic Search Complete is a general academic index that indexes more than 8,200 magazines and journals from every academic discipline and provides the full-text of more than 4,600.

In addition, Academic Search Complete offers access to more than 75,000 videos from the Associated Press. Videos relevant to the search terms will appear in a carousel in the result list.
PsycINFO
This database contains more than one million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations and technical reports, all in the field of psychology. It also includes information about the psychological aspects of related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business and law. Journal coverage, which spans from 1887 to present, includes international material selected from more than 1,700 periodicals in over 35 languages.
JSTOR
Full-text digital archive of over 2600 scholarly journals, especially strong in Social Sciences, Humanities, Economics, and Mathematics.

Other Citation Searching Databases

Metrics Toolkit

Metrics Toolkit
The Metrics Toolkit was developed by several librarians to help scholars and evaluators understand and use citations, web metrics, and altmetrics responsibly in the evaluation of research.

The website explains over 25 different metrics from Amazon ratings and reviews to the h-index and Journal Impact Factor.

Harzing's Publish or Perish

This free downloadable tool uses Google Scholar data to create citation analysis reports by author or journal name. Citation counts for specific articles are given, as well as h-index for the author or journal.