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Using Cited References Search in Web of Science

This guide provides practical tips on Cited References search in Web of Science

Example 1 - Cited references not indexed in WoS

Low, E. L., & Deterding, D. (2003). A corpus-based description of particles in spoken Singapore English. In D. Deterding, E. Low, & A. Brown (Eds.), English in Singapore: Research on Grammar (pp. 58–66). McGraw-Hill.

Tips: We recommend using quotation marks so that the title is searched as a phrase. We also recommend searching the book chapter title in both the Cited Work and Cited Title fields using the Boolean operator OR. You can see the usefulness of performing such combined search in Example 2.


 

For this publication that is not indexed in WoS, the Cited References search retrieves two matches with a total of 15 citation counts.

If compiled manually with publications indexed in WoS, there will be an increase to the author's total citation counts, and possibly the H-index too!


Example 2 - Cited references with title entered in the wrong field

Low, E. L., Lim, S. K., Ch’ng, A., & Goh, K. C. (2011). Pre-service teachers’ reasons for choosing teaching as a career in Singapore. Asia Pacific Journal of Education31(2), 195–210. https://doi.org/10.1080/02188791.2011.567441

Tips: We recommend using quotation marks so that the Title is searched as a phrase. We also recommend searching the publication in both Cited Work and Cited Title fields using the Boolean operator OR. You can see the usefulness of performing such combined search in the results of this example.


For this publication, the Cited References search retrieves two matches: an indexed cited reference and one other cited reference with the Title wrongly entered in the Source field. 

Instead of having 30 citation counts via the Documents search, which searches only the indexed publications, it now has 32 citation counts via the Cited References search. While it is not a significant increase, but if every publication can have a few more citations, this would inevitably add up to a much higher combined citation count, and possibly H-index for the Researcher.


Example 3 - Cited references with title variants

Low, E. L., Grabe, E., & Nolan, F. (2000). Quantitative characterizations of speech rhythm: Syllable-timing in Singapore English. Language and Speech43(4), 377–401. https://doi.org/10.1177/00238309000430040301

For this publication, the Cited References search retrieves one indexed cited reference and seven other cited references with title variants. 
 


To view the citing articles, select the cited references and click See Results.

At the results page, you can also click Analyze Results or Citation Reports button to generate visualisations of cited references by research areas or authors, and the total number of citation counts and publication counts over time. Read more at the Managing Results tab of this LibGuide.