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Locating Who Cited Your Article |
| Web of Science contains: Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index |
| 1. | Go to Web
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Click on the Cited Ref Search button |
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| 2. | Select the databases and timespan that you want to search. For a cited reference search you should usually leave the default settings. |
| 3. | You need to search for each work by the first author to get a
comprehensive list of citations. Citations are listed exactly as the citing
author listed them, which means that variants will occur in how the work is
listed in the database. Variants are not searchable when you look for a
secondary author and you will miss citations if you use this approach. The following work will be used to illustrate searching by first author: Farrar, M. J. and Maag, L. (2002).Early language development and the emergence of a theory of mind First Language. |
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| 4. | Enter the last name followed by the initial of the first name and an asterisk * in the Cited Author box. Now you need to enter distinctive information for this particular work. I am adding the year. You can also add the source name. You need to check with the list of abbreviations if you use a source with a long title. |
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| 5. | Click on the Search button. |
| 6. | Select the boxes next to the matching hits. Note that the source is listed as both 1 Language and First Language. |
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| 7. | Click on the Finish Search button at the top of the screen. |
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| 8. | To eliminate self-citations click on the Advanced Search button at the top of screen. Type Au=Farrar M* into the box and then click on the Search button |
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| 9. | Your search history now contains two searches. The first search contains the references citing your work and the second contains your own work. |
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| 10 | Next type #1 NOT #2 into the search box. Then hit the Search button |
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| 11. | In the Search History box a new search will appear which will have taken out all of the self-citation. Search 3# is is described #1 NOT #2. Click on Results link for #3 to get the list of references that cite your work. |
| 12. | Check all the boxes on all pages. |
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| 13. | You can save or export the citations the marked records. |
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| 14. | Repeat the process for the rest of your publications. |
cynthia.crosser@umit.umaine.edu | Revised: 01/25/2008
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