Find out how many times the article has been cited with Google Scholar or the library databases Web of Science (for all disciplines but leans towards the sciences and social sciences). Finding out how many times an article has been cited can help you identify the impact that research has had. It also can help you find other articles on a similar topic. It is a good strategy to employ when you have found an article and want to find more.
Note: Use Web of Science to see only scholarly articles. Google Scholar lists more than articles that have cited a work (for example, presentations, conference proceedings).
Note: You won't find "cited by" or "cited reference" results for new publications. This is because it takes time for an article to get published and then discovered by another author who reads it, cites it, and publishes their article referring to the first one. If you do not find that anyone has cited a recent article, that does not necessarily mean that the article is not important.
Search for the article title. At the bottom of the record, click the "Cited by" link to see works that have cited the article.
Change the search screen from Topic to Cited Reference search. Then:
When looking at a single information record in Web of Science, you can view who has cited the record in the "Times Cited" box in the upper right.
When you look at the results of a search you do in Multi-Search, you will sometimes see this PlumX Metrics icon underneath an article:
When you hold your mouse over the icon you will see a summary of the information PlumX has about the article or book.
If you click on "see details" you will see where PlumX has collected the information:
