Looking at citations in databases

This video (4:59) shows you something very useful when it comes to searching for scholarly publications: how to use citations to follow an article’s way through the scholarly discussion. This way of searching works best for journal articles but might also work for other types of publications.

Links to resources mentioned in the video:

Web of science
Use for journal articles, book chapters and conference publications in English.

Scopus
Use for journal articles, book chapters and conference publications in English.

Google scholar
Use for all types of academic publications in all languages.

Created by:

Mikael Törner. Lunds universitet

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Looking at citations in databases

Links to resources mentioned in the video:

LEARNINGLIB

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First published: May 19, 2022 Revised: May 19, 2022	Author(s): Adam Turic	CC-BY-NC