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Locating Who Cited Your Work

Google Scholar

Google Scholar is a free resource that searches for scholarly literature by automatically analyzing and extracting citations from Google-indexed online sources. The cited references may be for online and/or print resources. 
NOTE: Some of the resources listed are subscription based and cannot be accessed using Google Scholar.
Go to http://scholar.google.com. For this example we will search for works that cite Miller, P.H. (1993). Theories of developmental psychology. New York: Freeman.
1. Type "author" followed by a colon and the author's last name. Then include a piece of identifying information such as the title. Example: author:miller theories of developmental psychology
google citations
2. You can now see your citation together with the number of times that it has been cited according to Google Scholar.
google citations
3. Click on the link "Cited by 54" to see a list of who is citing this book. This will give you a list of authors citing the work.
google citations
4. Copy and save list. Remove any self-citations .
5. Repeat this process for each work.

cynthia.crosser.@umit.maine.edu | Revised: 01/25/2008


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