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SPRING 2003 |
LIBRARY STUDIES 301H |
Information Research Methods and Systems |
Citation indexes are searchable by the bibliographies/bibliographic references in articles, in addition to the standard search options. This is called Cited Reference Searching.
Cited Reference Searching is useful when you want to determine what newer works have cited an older work in their bibliographies. If you know that Smith's 1991 work is seminal in the field, you are likely interested in who else has cited that 1991 work in more recent articles.
In contrast to the more typical retrospective search, cited reference searching lets you monitor the growth or acceptance of a research premise, and update your research to identify more recent works that have cited an earlier known work. Think of cited reference searching as letting you search forward in time, rather than the typical retrospective search.
See http://www.isinet.com/training/tutorials/citedreference for an illustration of how it works.
Yes. When selecting graduate schools or other academic opportunities,
it can be important to become familiar the work
conducted
by the faculty in a particular university or academic department. Use
the 'easy search / place search' option.
Be sure
to use
the correct name!!! "Penn State" retrieved hundreds of citations, but neither
"Penn State University" nor
"Pennsylvania
State University" result in any hits.
Social Science Citation Index, 1956 [online web version, Web of Science, since 1986].
Science Citation Index, 1955 [online web version, Web of Science, since 1986].
Arts and Humanities Citation Index, [1976] [online web version, Web of Science, since 1986].