CITATION ANALYSIS

WHO CITED MY ARTICLE? MY BOOK?

Citation databases contain references cited by authors of articles. In the following databases, you can conduct a search to find articles that cite a particular work of yours that was previously published.

DATABASES

ISI Web of Science  (Social Science Citation Index 1956-, Science Citation Index 1900- and Humanities Citation Index 1975-)

ISI Web of Science is a multidisciplinary database with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the sciences. It indexes 5,300 major journals across 164 scientific disciplines, covering approximately 2,000 more journals than its SCI print and CD-ROM counterparts, with all cited references captured.

SCOPUS 1966-

Indexing, abstracts, and citation searching for science and social science scholarly literature. Scopus covers 14,000 titles across 4,000 publishers, providing access to over 25 million abstracts going back to 1966 and 5 years of cited reference back years, building up to 10 years by the end of 2005.

Additional Sources of Citations:

In Academic Source Complete and Business Source Complete, scholarly articles show number of "cited references" and when you go to that screen, it shows how many times the reference is cited in that particular database.

Citeseer ( Scientific Literature Digital Library and Search Engine)

Searches over 1,164,939 articles and 22,168,862 citations.

Google Scholar After you conduct a search, the result of books or articles show the number of times they have been cited. If you click on the "number" you go to the list of the sources that have cited the book or the article in question.

Publish or Perish

Publish or Perish is a software program that retrieves and analyzes academic citations. It uses Google Scholar to obtain raw citations, then analyzes them.   Please see the Caveat Emptor on using it. 

Amazon.com After you search for the book, click on the title, then scroll down on the detailed screen to the section on "Citations".