ISGuides: EGIS (Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society): Using what you know to find literature

Using what you know to find other useful sources

Let’s assume you have done a search and have found (or have been given on a reading list) a really useful article. How can you use this article to find other good articles? There are various different ways:

Keywords/controlled vocabulary
If you are struggling to think of appropriate keywords to broaden/narrow your search, look at those used in a useful paper. A&I Databases will have better/more keywords than a publisher database.
Author Details/links
Is this author an expert in the field, might they have other useful papers? Search for author name in the A&I database/s, or search for their papers in their personal/institutional website.
Recommended articles / ‘Other users also viewed’
Articles which share some of the same references
Journal Details
Is this quite a specialised journal, might it publish papers on the same topic? Search within that journal with your selected keywords/ set up table of contents alerts to be notified of new articles.
Cited reference searching (see below)

For further help with this, or with any aspect of Literature Searching, please contact your:

Academic Support and Liaison Librarians

Cited Reference Searching

It is possible to search in the following resources for a specific article title and then see who has subsequently cited that paper:

Web of Science [previously called Web of Knowledge] This link opens in a new window
Alternative login route: Use https://clarivate.com/webofsciencegroup/solutions/web-of-science/ then "Go to product" and then select "UK Federation" regardless of location and then "Go to institution"

Reference and citation data for thousands of indexed journals and conference papers. Use to for 'cited by' and reference list searching. Use "check for full text" on results to check Discovery for full-text.

Web of Science includes:
Science Citation Index Expanded (1970 to date)
Social Sciences Citation Index (1970 to date)
Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975 to date)
Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science (1990 to date)
Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Social Science & Humanities (1990 to date)
Medline (1950 to date)
Biosis Citation Index (1969 to date)
Journal Citation Reports
Index Chemicus (1993 to date)
Scopus This link opens in a new window
Alternative login route: Use https://www.scopus.com/home.uri then login via the "Institution" icon on the home page, then "Check access" and then sign in via institutional access.

Scopus is one of the leading databases of peer-reviewed citations and abstracts, covering 21,000 titles from 5,000 publishers in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities.

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WoS = Times Cited
Scopus = Cited By

This is necessarily looking forward i.e. how has this area of research developed/who has subsequently cited this paper in their research.