Cited Reference Search

1. Enter a name in the Cited Author field and then type a journal title or book title in the Cited Work field.
   • You may also search on Cited Year(s), Cited Volume, Cited Issue, Cited Pages, Cited Title, or Cited DOI
2. Click Search; results from the cited reference index that include the work you’re searching appears on a table. Every reference on the cited reference index has been cited by at least one article indexed in the Web of Science. The first author of a cited work always displays in the Cited Author column. If the cited author you specified in step 1 is not the primary author, then the name of author you specified follows the name of the first author (click Show all authors). If you retrieve too many hits, return to the cited reference search page and add criteria for Cited Year, Cited Volume, Cited Issue, or Cited Page.
3. Select references and cited reference variants from the index table.
   1. If a cited work listed in the title field is hyperlinked, you can open that record. If it’s not, the following may be true:
      • cited reference is not a source article in the Web of Science
      • reference may contain incomplete or inaccurate information, and can’t be linked to a source article
      • reference may refer to a document from a publication outside the timespan of your subscription; for example, if the article was published in 1992, but your subscription only gives you access to 20 years of data
      • cited item may refer to a document from a publication not covered by a database in your subscription
4. Click Search to view your results.

Click View abbreviation list to see the abbreviations of journal and conference proceedings titles used as cited works; this list will open in a new browser tab.

When you complete a cited reference search, the number of citing items you retrieve may be smaller than the number listed in the Citing Articles column if your institution's subscription does not include all years of the database. In other words, the count in the Citing Articles column is not limited by your institution's subscription. However, your access to records in the product is limited by your institution's subscription.

Column	Description
Select	Use the check box to the left of each cited reference to select specific cited references for your search. Use the check box at the top of this column to select all the references on the page. Use arrow next to the check box to select the first 100, 250, or 1000 references to include in your cited reference search.
Cited Author	Cited author name(s) of a published work The default Cited Author display will show the first and last name of the authors of the cited work when all author names have been indexed. The names of the primary author and the secondary authors are displayed in the order they appear in the publication Click Expand All to see all indexed author names for each cited work. Click View All below each cited author display to show all authors for that cited work. Some references to works not indexed in the Web of Science may only display the first cited author. Some references may contain more authors than we have in the product database. In this case, the Latin phrase "et. al" will appear after the last author in the list regardless of how many authors appear in the list.
Cited Work	Cited publication title (article, book, book chapter, conference, or other document type) The default Cited Work display shows an abbreviated cited work name Click Expand All to show the full cited work name when known. The titles of non-source records that appear in the Cited Work column may only display the abbreviated title of a publication name. Cited references from other collections on the Web of Science platform are not indexed in the product database.
Cited Title	The cited title may include any of the following full cited works: article title linked to the Full Record if a source record exists in the database. book title, publisher, and location linked to the Full Record if a source record exists in the database. book chapter title, publisher, and location linked to the Full Record if a source record exists in the database. conference title, location, date, and sponsor linked to the Full Record if a source record exists in the database. patent title linked to the Full Record if a source record exists in the database.
Year	Year of the cited source publication
Volume	Volume number of cited source publication For patent records, this column may include the two-digit WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) country code. For example, CA stands for Canada and EP stands for European patents. For Web of Science Core Collection records only, the following terms indicate implied citations were found: CASE, ILL, IMP, and MUS. Note: You must have a subscription to the Arts & Humanities Citation Index to find implied citations.
Issue	Issue number of the cited source publication
Page	Page number of the cited source publication; the starting cited page number. Cited pages may include alphabetic characters and numbers. For patent records, this column may contain the term APPL if the patent is still in the application process.
Identifier	Unique identifier of the cited source publication This field may contain any of the following: Article Number Abstract Number DOI Number Meeting Abstract Number ELocation ID The DOI number appears for citations to electronic works. It is a system for permanently identifying and exchanging intellectual property in the digital environment. For conferences, a Meeting Abstract number displays in this column. For example, Meeting Abstract: 205- CHED
Citing Articles	Number of times the article was cited; citing article counts are for all editions and all years, not just your current editions and year limits.

Every cited reference in the Cited Reference Index contains enough information to uniquely identify the document. Because only essential bibliographic information is captured, and because author names and source publication titles are unified as much as possible, the same reference cited in two different records should appear the same way in the database. This unification is what makes possible the Times Cited number on the Full Record page.

However, not all references to the same publication can be unified. As a consequence, a cited reference may have variations in the product.

For example, consider these variations of a reference to an article by A.J. Bard published in volume 374 of Nature:

BARD AJ NATURE 1995 374 13 View Record

BARD AJ NATURE 1995 13 374

The first reference contains the correct volume number and other bibliographic information. The View Record link takes you to the Full Record, which has a Times Cited count of 31.

The second reference contains a different volume number and it does not have a View Record link. Because a journal cannot have two different volume numbers in the same publication year, it is obvious that this is an incorrect reference to the same article.

Click Export at the top of the Cited Reference Search table to export the cited reference search results to Excel.

Articles indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded cite books, patents, and other types of publications in addition to other articles. You can do a cited reference search for a patent to find journal articles that have cited it.

If you know the patent number, enter it in the Cited Work field. If you do not know the patent number, try entering the name of the first listed inventor or patent assignee in the Cited Author field. For example, to find references to U.S. patent 4096196-A, enter 4096196 in the Cited Work field. If you also subscribe to Derwent Innovations Index and the patent is included in the Derwent database, the patents you find in the citation index will be linked to the corresponding full patent records in Derwent Innovations Index.

Self-citations refer to cited references that contain an author name that matches the name of the author of a citing article.

You may want to eliminate self-citations from the results of a Cited Reference Search by combining a Cited Reference Search with a search by the source author.

1. Perform a Cited Reference Search to find items that cite the works of a particular author. Ensure that you complete both steps of a Cited Reference Search.
2. Go to the search page. Enter the name of the same author in the Author field. Click the Search button.
3. Go to the advanced search page.
4. Combine the two searches you just completed in a Boolean NOT expression (for example, #1 NOT #2 ). The results of the Search (the items written by the author) should be the set on the right-hand side of the operator.

Articles indexed in the product cite books, patents, and other types of publications in addition to other articles. You can do a cited reference search on a book to find journal articles that have cited it.

You should identify a book by entering the name of the first listed author in the Cited Author field and the first word or words of the title in the Cited Work field. Many cited works are abbreviated. If you are not sure how a word has been spelled or abbreviated, enter the first few letters of the word, followed by an asterisk. For example, to search for records of articles that cite Edith Hamilton's book Mythology , you would enter Hamilton E* in the Cited Author field and Myth* in the Cited Work field.

Do not enter a year in the Cited Year field. Authors often cite a particular edition of a book, and the cited year is the year of the edition they are citing. Generally, you want to find all articles that cite a book, regardless of the particular edition cited.

For example, enter the following data on the Cited Reference Search page, and then click Search .

CITED AUTHOR
Tuchman BW

CITED WORK
Guns*

CITED YEAR
1962

Note the number of references that are retrieved. Now repeat the search using the following data:

CITED AUTHOR
Tuchman B*

CITED WORK
Guns*

See how many more references you retrieved? Notice that the author has been cited as Tuchman B as well as Tuchman BW. Also, notice how many different cited years and cited page numbers there are for the same work.