Research Skills: Citation searching

This guide provides tutorials on how to conduct a citation search in the four key citation databases: 

1. Scopus: is a multi-displinary database indexing over 19,000 journals and other materials.
2. Web of Science: is a multi-disciplinary bibliographic database which indexes over 11,000 journals, as well as smaller citation indexes of monographs, books and conference papers. 
3. Dimensions: Provides a free interface (for personal, non-commercial research) to search across millions of publications and citations.
4. Google Scholar: Free to access, and covers a huge range of content, including many theses, pre-prints and book chapters not found in other databases.

We recommend you review Part 5 of our 'Constructing a Search' guide here to explain what we mean by citation searching, and why it may be of use to you.