Frequently Asked Questions
Finding Articles
How do I search for citations to a known item?
Citation databases (also called citation indexes) allow you to search forward in time from a known item to more recent publications which cite it. They are useful for determining the popularity and impact of specific works, and locating more recent publications on similar topics.
Citation databases of scholarly publications include Web of Knowledge, Google Scholar, NASA's Astrophysics Data System, citebase, Citations in Economics, and CiteSeer.
Many library databases include a cited reference search option; the library guide Research Databases for Cited Reference Searching lists more databases.