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Cited reference searching allows you to determine who has cited an author's work and where. In effect, it allows you to use an earlier work as a "search topic" to find more recent articles on the same topic. Articles citing an older article (listed in a cited references or bibliography) are likely to be about the same subject.

1. Locate the Web of Science from the alphabetical listing on the Western Libraries' Indexes and Databases page.

2. Click on FULL SEARCH. Choose the database(s) appropriate to your topic:
    Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)--1995-current
    Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)--1995-current
    Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI)--1995-current

4. Enter information in one or more of the search field boxes: cited author, cited work (abbreviated journal title), and cited year.

Example: You are looking for works that cite the following review article indexed in PsycInfo:

TI: Title
Sex stereotypes and their effects in the workplace: What we know and what we don't know

AU: Author
Heilman, Madeline E

SO: Source
Journal of Social Behavior & Personality. Special Issue: Gender in the workplace. Vol 10(6), 1995, pp. 3-26

PY: Publication Year
1995

In the Cited Author search box enter: heilman me
Enter the last name, first and middle initials in the Cited Author box. If you know only the first initial, enter it followed by an asterisk (heilman m*). If you do not know the first initial, enter the last name by itself (heilman). Some authors may be listed in several ways. Do not spell out first or middle names.
In the Cited Work box enter: j soc behav pers
NOTE: You must enter the journal abbreviation used by Web of Science. Click on LIST to find the abbreviated title OR leave this box black. It is not necessary to enter info in all three boxes. Entering the author's name and the year the article was published will collect all the articles published by that author during the year you enter. You can then select the target article you want to search from the list of citations.

In the Cited Year box enter: 1995.

5. Click on Look Up. The Summary screen displays your Cited Reference Search. The results of this search are records for articles that contain all the information you entered above.

7. The Cited Reference Search Results screen gives you a list, with summary information, of all the articles published that cite the 1995 article by Heilman.

8. Note that the titles of individual articles or papers are underlined. These are "hot links" to the full bibliographic records of your results. The Web of Science is NOT a full-text database and contains only citations with abstracts.

9. Click on the

button located near the top of the screen in full record to get direct linking to full-text, when available. If full-text isn't available, Find it! will provide a link to search the catalog or request the item through ILLiad. You can also search the Western Libraries Online Catalog by Journal title to see if the library subscribes to the journal(s) you need.