Old FiR English 1001 guide: Sources in Conversation

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Use this drop-down list to select a discipline that may relate to your research question. This will connect you to the best databases for that discipline.


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Finding Articles that Cite your Article (when possible)

A few tips about finding articles that cite your anchor article (and are possibly in direct conversation):

No single source will locate all citing sources  You can use multiple databases.

  • Web of Science is very comprehensive and recommended for all of these kind of searches.
  • Disciplinary databases may locate additional citing references.
  • Book chapters are not as well covered as journal articles.

Not every database includes citing/cited reference information, those that do will have some overlap.

How to find citing articles:

  1. You are searching the References/Works Cited list of an article, book chapter, etc. and have deciphered its citation style so that you know what you're looking for.
  2. Notice whether the database where you've found your anchor articles offers a link to "Times Cited" or "Citing Articles" in the record for your anchor article
  3. Try searching for your anchor article by using the Author's last name and the Journal Title (Publication Name) in Web of Science and checking the "Times Cited" link on the article's record