Research Guides: Bibliographic Management Software: How to Track Scholarly Article Citations

What are Citation Metrics?

Research impact is a measure of the significance and importance of academic work within a scholarly community.

Bibliometrics are the use of quantitative tools to study publications and other written material.

Citation metrics focus on the statistical patterns and measurements of citations.

Citation analysis can be used as a quantifiable measure of academic output and research impact, which can help inform decisions on publication, promotion, and tenure.

The Research Impacts using Citation Metrics guide provides more information.

Journal Citation Reports

Journal Citation Reports® offers a systematic, objective means to critically evaluate the world's leading journals, with quantifiable, statistical information based on citation data.

JCR Web *
By compiling articles' cited references, JCR Web helps to measure research influence and impact at the journal and category levels, and shows the relationship between citing and cited journals. Available in Science and Social Sciences editions.

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Databases

Sources for finding citation counts and subsequent cited papers

eScholarship
The repository is a service of the eScholarship initiative of the California Digital Library.
Faculty of 1000 Biology Reports *
Reviews the most interesting papers published in the biological sciences based on the recommendations of a faculty of well over 1000 selected leading researchers.
Google Scholar
Search results include "Cited By" and "Web Search" references.
Included are "Related Articles" based on the Google search algorithm and "Web Search" for locating documents that include the search term or citation.
"Have You Been Cited?" - Indiana University
Indiana University provides some leads for finding citations for the humanities beyond Web of Science.
Research Impact, Citation Analysis & Altmetrics
Information on how to use Scopus for citation analysis. Scopus is now available to the UCI community.
Web of Science *
Use "Cited Author Search" to locate by principal author, journal title, and publication year. The alternative is to use "General Search" by author name, topic, or year.