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Citation searching: an introduction

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Citation databases such as Web of Science and Scopus allow you to search for articles that have cited a particular paper or papers. Citations are references made to earlier work by an author in their own paper. You can therefore see how a piece of work has influenced further work and investigations.

This essentially enables you to go forward in time by viewing who cited a particular paper or go back in time by viewing the papers cited by a particular paper. search diagrams

 

The advantage of citation searching over a traditional  database search is demonstrated in the image (right) produced by Thomson Reuters, formerly ISI, who produced the first ever citation database Science Citation Index in 1961.

 

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