Guides: Citation Searching and Bibliometric Measures: Citation Searching

Mobile Websites

Databases make research on the go easy with Mobile websites and RSS Feeds:

Academic Search Premier: EBSCOHost Databases
Research while you are out and about.
RSS Feeds
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Databases with Citation Alerts

Manage your Search Alerts, Author Citation Alerts and Document Citation Alerts with these tools:

Web of Science This link opens in a new window
My Citation Alerts
Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
Alert/Save/Share->Create and Alert
APA PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
Alert Me

Databases Useful for Citation Searching

Major databases that allow citation searching:

Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Use (Cited by) in the results list or the Cited Reference Search. Web of Science provides access to Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index.
APA PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
Use (More Search Options) in Advanced Search or Search Tools. PsycINFO provides indexing coverage of all document types, including journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations, and technical reports. The database is international in scope.
Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
Use (Cited References) (Find Similar Results) (Citation Matcher) in the search results. This scholarly collection provides journal coverage for most academic areas of study, including biological sciences, economics, communications, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts and literature, medical sciences and women's studies. This is an EBSCOHost database.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Use (Citation Locator) (Items Citing this Item) in the search results. JSTOR is an online collection of academic journals in all fields.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Use (Cited By) in the search results. Google Scholar includes citations from an array of sources in its cited by calculation, including PowerPoints and Word documents. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.

Seaching Citations for Related/Similar Subjects

Databases that are helpful to find similiar citations in your subject area:

APA PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
Use (More Search Options) in Advanced Search or Search Tools. PsycINFO provides indexing coverage of all document types, including journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations, and technical reports. The database is international in scope.
Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
Use (Cited References) (Find Similar Results) (Citation Matcher) in the search results. This scholarly collection provides journal coverage for most academic areas of study, including biological sciences, economics, communications, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts and literature, medical sciences and women's studies. This is an EBSCOHost database.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Use (Citation Locator) (Items Citing this Item) in the search results. JSTOR is an online collection of academic journals in all fields.

Affiliation Searching

The Affiliation Identifier from Elsevier in Scopus will track citations by organization. The database merges name variants.

Scopus will also give you data about all those citations by subject.

(access requires a subscription)

University of Pittsburgh Library System

Course & Subject Guides

Citation Searching and Bibliometric Measures: Citation Searching

Mobile Websites

Databases with Citation Alerts

Databases Useful for Citation Searching

Seaching Citations for Related/Similar Subjects

Affiliation Searching