Research Guides: Cited Author Guide: Home

Impact Factors & More Workshops

When:

Monday, October 29, 2-3pm
Thursday, November 29, 12-1pm

Where: Healey Library, 4th Fl, Center for Active Learning & Library Instruction, Rm 015

Please sign up in the IT Training Portal search for workshops under Library - Research.

Cited Author Search

Using a combination of Healey Library's resources and the web, researchers can compile a list of an author's work and find out who has cited the author. How many times an author or work has been cited is one indicator of the impact that author or work has had on other scholars' research. Cited author and cited work searches are also useful for finding related information on a subject.

Note that there is not one best resource for Cited Author searches. For a comprehensive project, it is best to use more than one of the resources listed to the left. Web of Science tends to be strongest in the sciences and least strong in the humanities. Google Scholar works well for retrieving citation information for "grey literature" such as state and federal sponsored research reports.

Background Information on Citation Searching

Web of Science: How to do a Cited Reference Search
Joint Committee on Quantitative Assessment of Research
A report from the International Mathematical Union (IMU) in Cooperation with the International Council of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICAM) and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), which highlights issues with using citation statistics to evaluate the impact of an author's works.

Research Links

Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Web of Science is a research platform that gives you access to objective content and powerful tools to search, track, measure and collaborate in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. This intelligent research platform provides access to the world's leading citation databases, including powerful cited reference searching, the Analyze Tool, and over 100 years of comprehensive backfile and citation data. Includes Emerging Sources Citation Index: 2005-present, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, and Science Citation Index Expanded
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar helps you identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research.

Adding "UMass Boston" as an option to your settings and use Google Scholar to gain access to articles from the Healey Library eResources.

Google Scholar Citations
Harzing's Publish or Perish
Publish or Perish is designed to help individual academics to present their case for research impact to its best advantage.
Hirsch Index Entry in Wikipedia
Research Impact guide