All Times Cited Counts

This table breaks down the citation counts from across all product databases within the Web of Science platform. This count is seen from wherever you are in the world. We keep this value consistent across all our citation indexes. Take note that the table may include citation counts from products not in your institution's subscription.

Click a link to go to that particular products Citing Articles Results page to view the citing records.

We count citations from the reference list in journals, conference proceedings, book series, and other papers indexed in Web of Science.

Citing article counts are for all years (from 1900 to the present) and all seven citation indexes in Web of Science - not just for the current year and indexes included in your subscription (which may be smaller).

We don’t count the same reference (duplicate cites) more than once from a single source. For instance, if an author cites a paper five times in the body of an article (abbreviated in-text citations), we only process and count a reference once.

The methodology for calculating the times cited count is applied for all Web of Science records and for all subscriptions to Web of Science. If you view times cited for a record from anywhere in the world, the value is always the same.

When you complete a Cited Reference Search in a product citation index, the number of citing articles you retrieve may be smaller than the number listed in the Citing Articles column on the Cited Reference Search page if your institution's subscription does not include all years and all citation indexes.

You may also retrieve fewer citing articles if you restrict your timespan or database selections. For example, if you decide to limit your Cited Reference Search to the last 5 Years or 10 years, then the use the From and To timespan options from the Search page and the system only retrieves citing articles for this timespan.

The number of citing articles you can view on the Citing Articles page may be smaller than the number listed in the Times Cited count on the Results and Full Records pages if your institution's subscription does not include all years and all citation indexes.

We will process and count citations in footnotes and end notes, but we only count a citation once regardless of whether it appears in both a footnote and in a reference list.

Some citations may be presented in both English and also in another language within the same reference list. These are known as duplicate citations. As a rule, we provide the English citation provided it has the same amount or more information than the foreign citation.

Keep in mind the difference between source articles and cited articles. Source articles are from journals that we have indexed in the product. Every source article has a Full Record that you can access if you have a subscription to that product database.

Some examples of source records include:

• Cited references that can be expanded on the Cited Reference Search page that have a View Record link are source records.
• Forward Only citations in a Citation Map are source records.
• Backward Only citations in a Citation Map may include source records and non-source cited articles.

The Times Cited link that appears on the Results, Full Record, and Cited References pages takes you to a Citing Articles page for the product database that you are currently searching.

The Times Cited link that appears in the right-hand column of a Full Record includes the Times Cited count from across all Web of Science citation indexes. The link takes you to the All Databases Citing Articles page.

Access to records is limited to your institution's subscription.