Citation Tracking (CT) looks at the number of times that a particular author or article has been cited (aka referenced) in the bibliographies of other works. Large numbers are associated with greater impact and influence.
In this Challenge, you’ll discover how to determine article and author level citation counts on Web of Science and Google Scholar.
This session will be lead by Sally Taylor, Reference Librarian, Woodward Library.
The Research Impact Challenges Bank is a set of simple online activities to help you learn and apply concepts about building your online academic profile, connecting with other researchers, keeping informed of research, discoverability and access to resources, and research metrics & analysis.
To complete the Track the Impact of an Author or Citation on Web of Science or Track the Impact of an Author or Citation on Google Scholar challenge and other Tracking a Scholar challenges, go to the Research Challenge Bank.
This Challenge is adapted under a CC-BY 4.0 license from the The 30-Day Impact Challenge: The Ultimate Guide to Raising the Profile of Your Research eBook published by Impactstory.org and authored by Stacy Konkiel.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
In this Challenge, you'll use Google Scholar and/or Web of Science Core Collection to determine citation counts for a specific article or author and to set up alerts to track them.
Tracking an Article
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Tracking an Author
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