How do I find articles?

Cited reference searching is finding articles that reference a particular author, article, or book. Use cited reference searching to:

• determine who has cited specific papers or authors
• discover how an idea or innovation has been confirmed, applied, corrected, or developed over time
• identify seminal papers
• find researchers with common interests
• assess the impact of a publication

There are many library databases that provide options for cited reference searching. Watch the tutorial below to learn how to perform a cited reference search in two comprehensive interdisciplinary databases.

Important things to know about Web of Science

• Authors' names are abbreviated, so for best results use wildcards for first names and middle initials: Harper W*
• Journal titles are usually abbreviated as well. Use the Web of Science Journals Abbreviation list to identify the correct form to use.
• All results in Web of Science have links to citing articles. However,  Cited Reference Search will give you the most complete results.

Important things to know about Google Scholar:

• Google Scholar may include more than one version of articles and there are likely to be duplicates in the citing references among the versions.