Cited Reference Search

Cited reference searching enables you to find articles from journals that have cited a book, a patent or another article. Through a cited reference search, you can discover how a known idea or innovation has been confirmed, applied, improved, extended or corrected. In the Arts & Humanities Citation Index, cited reference searching also enables you to find articles that make reference to and/or include an illustration of a particular work of art or piece of music. To learn more about cited reference searching and to see sample searches in the Web of Science and the ISI Citation Indexes on CD, see the Cited Reference Searching: An Introduction (this link will open a new browser window). To perform a cited reference search on the database(s) you selected: Click Cited Ref Search from the Full Search page. The Cited Reference Lookup page is displayed. Click Clear to remove search parameters from previous searches. Enter values in the search fields on the Cited Reference Lookup page. Click Lookup to display the Cited Reference Selection page, which lists the references that match your search criteria. (Note that the number of references shown can be limited by your site administrator; you will receive a warning if your search results exceed the limit.) On the Cited Reference Selection page, select references of interest by clicking the checkboxes or Select All (which selects all the references on the current page). Click Search to retrieve the articles that cite the selected references. Search Example: To search for articles that have cited the book Grammatology by Jacques Derrida: On the Cited Reference Lookup page, enter DERRIDA J* in the Cited Author field. It is advisable to truncate after the first initial using the asterisk wildcard character in case the author uses a second given name or initial. Enter GRAMMA* in the Cited Work field. By truncating the book's title, you can find references that contain different spellings of the book's title. Click Lookup. The Cited Reference Selection page, which lists the references found by the lookup, is displayed. Click Select Page to select all the references with J Derrida as the cited author and Grammatology (or its variants) as the cited work. Click Next Ten. Click Select Page again. Repeat this until you come to the end of the list. (You may reach a limit to the number of references you can select for a search. If this happens, you should limit the file depth to just one or two years of data before doing the cited reference search.) Click Search. The Cited Reference Search Results -- Summary page is displayed. These are the articles that cite Grammatology by J. Derrida.

The Cited Reference Lookup page is the first step in a Cited Reference Search. The lookup will return a list of cited references that match the search criteria. To perform a lookup: Enter search strings in one or more fields, which are: Cited Author Cited Work Cited Year (The different search fields are automatically combined using the "AND" Boolean operator, which narrows your search by finding only records that meet all criteria. For instance, if you enter a name in the Cited Author field, a journal title in the Cited Work field, and a year in the Cited Year field, then only those records by that author that were published in that journal in that year will be returned in the Cited Reference Selection page.) Click Lookup to display the Cited Reference Selection page, which lists the references that match your search criteria. (Note that the number of references shown can be limited by your site administrator; you will receive a warning if your search results exceed the limit.) Cited Reference field rules: Use either upper, lower, or mixed case. Separate two or more terms by the logical operator OR. The OR operator instructs the search engine to find records containing any one of the search terms in a given field. For example, enter CRICK OR WATSON to search for cited articles by either of these authors. Use quotation marks around the words AND, OR, NOT, SAME, or SENT in any field when you do not intend these words to serve as search operators. For example, to search for cited works authored by William Or, enter "OR" W. To search for works authored by O. R. Koechli, enter KOECHLI "OR". Use the asterisk and question mark as wildcards to search for variants of words. Enter DEMAN P* to look up references to works where P DEMAN is listed as the first author, but you are not sure of the other initials.. Search for words/phrases containing apostrophes or other internal punctuation by entering the terms both with and without the punctuation mark. Join the two versions of the term with OR. For example, to search for the cited author O'Brien, enter OBRIEN OR O'BRIEN. Enter EL-EBIARY OR ELEBIARY to search for this author (with a hyphenated last name). See the explanations below for details on each search field and examples on using the search fields. Cited Author Search Field - Enter the last name of the work's first listed author. If the citation refers to a journal article covered as a source item in the Web of Science published during the time span covered by your institution's subscription, you can enter the name of any of its authors. If the name is longer than 15 characters, truncate after the fifteenth character. Follow the last name with a space and up to 3 initials. It is advisable to use only the first initial followed by an asterisk. You may use the asterisk wildcard character to search for variants of words. The asterisk wildcard can be used to represent zero to many characters (including no characters). Note: If the Cited Lookup Limit is reached, all first-listed-author cited items are listed first; those of secondary authors may not be listed. Note on Author Names: When performing a search on a cited author, your results may display a shortened version of the last name. Regardless, enter the full last name of the author when searching (if you know it); the Web of Science search engine will automatically adjust for data variations. More information on author names. Cited Author Search Examples: Enter DEMAN P* to look up references to works where P DEMAN is listed as the first author. Enter MANNING GH to look up references works where GH MANNING is listed as the first author. Enter HAMBLETON G* OR RUSSELL R* to look up references to works where either G HAMBLETON or RL RUSSELL is listed as the first author (as well as other authors with the same last name and first initial). Beginning with 1998 data, non-alphanumeric characters (e.g., the apostrophe in O'Brian or Paget's disease) and embedded spaces (e.g., the space in the last name de la Rosa) are preserved in many fields in the database. In order to search effectively across multiple years of data, you should be sure to enter search strings that take account of all possible variations of the data. Enter O'BRIAN C* OR OBRIAN C* to search for references authored by C. D. O'Brian. Enter DE LA ROSA W* OR DELAROSA W* to search for references authored by W. de la Rosa. Cited Work Search Field - For journals, enter an abbreviated journal title. Use the journal abbreviation list as a guide, but consider other ways a journal may have been abbreviated. Join multiple journal titles with the search operator OR. You may use the asterisk wildcard character to search for variants of words. The asterisk wildcard can be used to represent zero to many characters (including no characters). In the Cited Work field, you must have at least three characters before an asterisk wildcard. It is advisable to truncate, even if you cut and paste from that list. Cited Work Search Examples: Enter ACAD* MED* to look up references to articles published in the journal Academic Medicine. Enter J AM CHEM* OR J AMER CHEM* OR JACS* to look up references to articles published in the journal Journal of the American Chemical Society. Enter MARKET* SCI* to look up references to articles published in the journal Marketing Science. Enter NATURE* to look up references to articles published in the journal Nature, Nature Genetics, or Nature Medicine. For books, enter the first significant word or words of the title. It is advisable to truncate because of variant spellings. Also, titles of cited works may be in languages other than English. Always truncate the last word. For example: Enter STRU* ANTHR* to look up references to the book Structural Anthropology. Enter LISTEN* PROZAC* to look up references to the book Listening to Prozac. Enter HENS TEETH* to look up references to the book Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes. For patents, enter the patent number. Do not specify a country code. For example: Enter 5015744 to look up references to patent number 5015744. Cited Year Search Field - Enter a four-digit year or series of years separated by the OR operator to indicate when the work was published (for patents, use the date of issue). Use this in combination with the other Cited Reference Search fields for the best results. Cited Year Examples: Enter CROW in the Cited Author field and 1995 in the Cited Year field if you know the work by that author was published in that year. Enter SCOTT F* in the Cited Author field and 1994 OR 1995 OR 1996 if you think the work by that author was published within a year of 1995.

The Cited Reference Selection page is the second step of a Cited Reference Search. This page displays the results of your Cited Reference Lookup. It lists all the cited references in the database that satisfy the cited author, cited work, and cited year criteria you entered. Each reference that appears is cited by at least one article in the Web of Science. The references are listed 10 at a time (site configurable), sorted alphabetically by cited author and then by cited work. Your site administrator may limit the total number of references that display. Click the navigation arrows or the page numbers to move through the data. The number in the Hits column to the left of each reference indicates the number of times the article is cited in all years of the Web of Science currently available in the database. For Internet customers, this is all data years for the Web of Science (even though you may not have purchased access to all years); for intranet customers, this is all years that you've purchased. Consequently, when you click Search, the number of citing articles you retrieve may not match the number of Hits in the Cited Reference Selection if: You limited the time span at the start of your session You are an Internet customer and your institution does not subscribe to all the years of the Web of Science available Also, the number of articles retrieved will be less than the number of Hits in the Cited Reference Selection if there are multiple hits by the same article (an article cites the individual work more than once). To navigate through this list - Click the navigation arrows or the page numbers to move through the data. To search for/retrieve the records of the citing articles: Select the reference(s) of interest by checking the box beside the name of each item. Optionally, click Select All to select all the references on the current page. Select any of the following options (scroll down to the bottom of the Cited Reference Selection page) Select language and document type limits. Select the sort option. The sort options are: Latest Date (default; newest record first) Times Cited (ranked by the number of times the work was cited in other works) Relevance (ranking system based on frequency of search terms) First Author (first author listed; alphabetical) Source Title (alphabetical order based on the source (e.g., journal) title) Click Search to retrieve the articles that cite the selected references.

Set Limits Two optional restriction lists enable you to limit your search to items written in a specific language or records of a specific document type. You may select one or more options from each list. To select more than one item in a list, Ctrl-click (Windows) or Command-click (Macintosh) each item. Note that these restrictions stay in effect until they are cleared by clicking the Clear button. Note also that the restrictions do not apply unless you have entered data in at least one search field. Sort Option Sort options include: Latest Date - (The default sort option.) Sorts retrieved records based on the date the publication was processed at ISI, with the most recently processed records listed first. (Up to 500 results returned.) Relevance - Sorts retrieved records based on a ranking system that considers how many of the search terms are found in each record, how frequently the search terms appear,and how close together the occurrences are. Records with the highest ranking appear at the top of the list. (Up to 500 results returned.) Times Cited - Sorts retrieved records based on the number of times the work was cited in other works. (Up to 300 results returned.) First Author - Sorts retrieved records in alphabetical order, based on the name of the first listed author. (Up to 300 results returned.) Source Title - Sorts retrieved records in alphabetical order, based on the source (e.g., journal) title. (Up to 300 results returned.)

This page displays the results of the second step of your cited reference search: it lists articles whose reference lists include the work(s) you selected on the Cited Reference Selection page. These articles are presumed to be related in subject to the works you selected, since they cite one or more of these work(s). To see more information about an article on the list - Click the article title to see the full record for this article in the ISI database. To print, save to a file, export, or e-mail information about an article Click the checkbox to the left of the author name to select an article. Submit your selection(s) by clicking Submit Marks. Click Marked List to display the Marked Records page. (Note: The Marked List button appears in the toolbar after marking records and clicking Submit Marks or after clicking Mark Page or Mark All.) Follow the instructions for the Marked Records page. To order the full text of an article (Note: Availability of this option depends on your institution's subscription.) Click the checkbox to the left of the author name to select an article. Submit your selection(s) by clicking Submit Marks. Click Marked List to display the Marked Records page. (Note: The Marked List button appears in the toolbar after marking records and clicking Submit Marks or after clicking Mark Page or Mark All.) Follow the instructions for the Marked Records page to order the text of an article. To navigate through this list - Click the navigation arrows or the page numbers to move through the data. Note that any marked records will be automatically submitted to the Marked List. To add individual records to your marked list - Click the checkbox to the left of the author name to select each article. Click Submit Marks. (Note: The Marked List button appears in the toolbar after marking records and clicking Submit Marks or after clicking Marks Page or Mark All.) To mark or unmark all 10 items on the page - Click Mark Page. All the records on the page will be marked and the Mark Page button will become Unmark Page. (Note: To clear the entire Marked List click Clear Marked List on the Marked List page or start a New Session.) To mark all items in the summary list - Click Mark All. All the records displayed in the summary list (on all pages) will be marked (up to the maximum allowed). If the number of marked records exceeds the limit allowed, a message will display. (Note: To clear the entire Marked List click Clear Marked List on the Marked List page or start a New Session.) To print this list - Use the print option of your Web browser.

For performance reasons, the Web of Science administrator can specify the maximum number of citations returned by a Cited Reference Lookup (the first step of the cited reference search). If your citation list exceeds this maximum, you will be notified and given the opportunity to refine your search criteria. For example, entering DARWIN as a cited author will return many more citations than most site administrators allow. A search such as this will result in the following message: NOTICE: Your Cited Reference Lookup found more matches than allowed by the system. You can further refine your lookup by adding additional terms and pressing Lookup. Or you can proceed and view the matches processed by pressing "Show." Respond to such a message by: Specifying additional search values such as a cited work and/or cited year to restrict the number of records returned and clicking Lookup again. Clicking Show to display as much of your list as the site limit allows. This list will be displayed 10 records at a time (site configurable), sorted by cited author and cited work, but it will be incomplete. You will see the maximum number of allowed records given in parenthesis at the end of the information line that displays below the page title (e.g., (500 shown)). If you want to find more than the maximum number of results, try searching the data in segments. One way to do this is searching only one year of data at a time.

The Cited Author in a cited reference is the first listed author of the cited item. Therefore, when you perform a cited reference search, you should enter the name of the first author of the work as the Cited Author in the Cited Reference Lookup. However, if the citation refers to a journal article published during the time span covered by your institution's subscription to the Web of Science, then your lookup will find any of the authors. When you click Lookup, you will see the name preceded by an ellipsis in the Cited Reference Selection Table. This only works for references to journal articles that have been indexed for the ISI Citation Databases. When you locate a record in this manner, it is recommended that you repeat the search using the first author of the article as the Cited Author. This way, you will retrieve all the variations of the cited item that are in the database. Note: If the Cited Lookup Limit is reached, all first-listed-author cited items are listed before those of secondary authorship.

A unique feature of ISI's Arts & Humanities Citation Index is that it includes citations to works of art (books, paintings, photographs, architectural drawings, musical scores) that are mentioned or reproduced in an article but not formally cited by the article's author(s). For example, an article that analyzes the structure of a Bach cantata may not explicitly reference the cantata in a footnote or endnote. But ISI creates a reference to this work and adds it to the list of references cited by the article. As a result, you can use the Cited Reference Search option to search for the article by entering BACH J* as the cited author and CANTAT* as the cited work. Keep in mind that cited works may be in a language other than English. Thus, for example, to do a cited reference search on Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus, you should enter DOCT* OR DOKT* in the Cited Work Lookup field to match Doctor, Docteur, and Doktor. Implicit citations appear on the Cited Reference Selection page with cited author (musician, artist, etc.) and cited work listed. The volume field contains the code IMP to indicate an implicit citation. The following codes appear in the volume field to indicate that the citing article contains a reproduction of the cited creative work: ILL - Illustration MUS - Musical Score