Applied Psychology: Citation Tracking

A number of tools allow you to track where a publication has been cited since its publication. This reveals interrelationships between publications, scholars, and ideas, thus giving you a more complete picture of the shape of a field.

Why do cited reference searching?

• Follow a publication's citations forward in time
• Locate current research based on earlier research
• Track the history of a research idea
• Explore how a research topic is being used to support other research
• Expand or update a bibliography
• Document the impact of research for faculty promotion/tenure/C.V.
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The following are selected examples of bibliographic databases with the ability to track citations:
 

Citation Searching in Web of Science