WRPR 101: Finding a Voice (HC)

These three databases (Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science) are set up to search sources in journal article footnotes. This allows you to find newer articles which cite key books and articles for your topic. By relying on connections between authors and moving forward in time, citation searching can open up new avenues of research.

When you connect, choose the Cited Reference Search tab to begin.
Enter the author's name: Last name first First name initial only with asterisk
Skip Cited Title box
Put the publication year in the Cited Year box
Under Current Limits, open Citation Databases and uncheck Science Citation Index and Conference Proceedings Science.
On the next screen choose the relevant results based on the Cited Work titles.
The results screen shows the newest articles first. Most records include a summary of contents, so that you can determine how relevant they may be for your research.

You can find cited references in Google Scholar searching by article or book title or by author. For the publication titles use quotation marks for specificity. In the results, look for the link Cited by [number]. Google Scholar has the advantage of including books in its cited references in contrast to Web of Science's coverage only of journal articles.
See also Google Scholar's ranking of journal articles by importance. This page rates history journals.