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Psychology 230B: Research Methods
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- Search Cited Sources
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What is Citation Searching?
Citation Searching typically starts when you have a source in hand. Maybe your professor gave you the source or you found it in a database or Catalyst. Now you have a great source for your research, and you have a (potential) gold mine in that source's bibliography. You should also find out who has cited that source in the months/years since it was published.
How to Citation Search
↜ Go Backward
Look at the list of references, bibliography, or footnotes to see who was cited by the author(s) of the source you found. You may want to track down some of these sources so that you can:
- better understand how the author(s) are interpreting or building upon previous voices
- verify the completeness or accuracy of the author(s) interpretation
- find additional threads of the conversation to include in your own research
Go Forward ↝
Use Web of Science and/or Google Scholar to see who else has cited the source you have in hand. This will allow you to:
- see if anyone has done more recent research on the topic
- better understand how your source fits into the ongoing scholarly conversation
- find new or different threads of conversation to guide your own research
Web of Science
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A very powerful and varied database. Use the "citation" feature to check for new citing authors. Coverage from 1900 to present.
Search Web of Science to find the full text of an article (if available) and get quick access to the sources cited in the article:
Search Web of Science to find the full text of an article and see who else has cited that article:
Google Scholar
- Google ScholarA free site for searching across scholarly literature. "From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites."
Search Google Scholar to find the full text of an article and also to see who else has cited that source:
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