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Citation ("Cited By") Indexes
Citation indexes are used to find journal articles, then determine where those articles have been cited (and by whom and how often). Scholars use citation indexes to gauge an author or work's credibility or effect in a field. Citation indexes also help identify related older research (some of which pre-dates indexes) and subsequent related research.
Citation Indexes
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Arts & Humanities Citation Index (FirstSearch)
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Allows title and subject searching. Drawn from 1,300+ of
the most frequently cited arts and humanities journals.
1980-present. Updated weekly.
How to Search A&H (PDF guide; revised version to
be posted).
- Arts &
Humanities Citation Index (Web of Science) --
Another electronic version of the Arts & Humanities
Citation Index (see description above). 1994-present.
Some users find this version easier to use even though it
does not go back as far as FirstSearch. "Web" refers here
to the "web" or "trail" of citations that one can follow.
- Science & Social Science Citation Indexes (e.g.,
acoustics, cognition, psychology)
Journal Citation Reports Identifies most frequently cited science/social-science journals. No authors/titles.
Web of Knowledge 1994-present. Includes Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and ISI.
Science Citation Index backfiles 1986-99 & Social Sciences Citation Index backfiles 1987-99 (Babbidge Lib.)
Searching Full-Text Articles
Full-text electronic articles include searchable footnotes, endnotes, and bibliographies, allowing researchers to see for themselves who cited whom.
- JSTOR
-- More than forty full-text journals in music (search
titles all at once).
- eJournal Locator -- Find a specific e-journal, then search its full text.
- Google Scholar -- This free Web resource provides full-text searching for many scholarly articles and has a "cited by" feature. Don't rely on this resource alone. UConn's specialized library databases (above) often find significantly more "cited by" references and have more powerful search options. (Don't ignore Google Schollar either. It finds citations that the resources above may not find, especially in non-music sources.) Read more about Google Scholar.
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