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Bibliometrics and Citation Tracking: Citation Tracking

Citation Alerts

Manage your Search Alerts, Author Citation Alerts and Document Citation Alerts with these tools:

Scopus (My Alerts)

Web of Science (My Citation Alerts).

Law of Scattering

80% of the citations come from about 20% of the journals cited, identifying a core list for a local journal collection.

-- (Chung, 2007)

Sample Bibliometric Map

Eigenfactor Social Science Citation Relationships 2004

Web of Science

Databases which offer Citation Tracking

Major databases which display citing articles:

Related references /Similar articles

Databases which display other articles on the same subject:

Affiliation Searching

The Affiliation Identifier in Scopus will track citations by organization. The database merges name variants.

Scopus will also give you data about all those citations by subject.

(access requires a subscription)

Symplectic Elements

For Oxford researchers and departments: