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Search for records that have cited a published work, and discover how a known idea or innovation has been confirmed, applied, improved, extended, or corrected. Find out who’s citing your research and the impact your work is having on other researchers in the world.

In the Arts & Humanities Citation Index, you can use cited reference search to find articles that refer to or include an illustration of a work of art or a music score; these references are called implicit citations.

If you want to find works that cited
Sandstrom, MJ & Coie, JD.  (1999).  A developmental perspective on peer rejection: Mechanisms of stability and change. Child Development, 70,  955-966.

Connect to Web of Science, choose Cited Reference Search, and follow these steps:

 

Step 1

In the Cited Author field, enter the author's last name followed by the initial for the first name and an asterisk (*). The asterisk is added at the end in order to search for any middle initials the author might have. Even if you know the middle initial, it is better to put the asterisk in order to find citations where the citing author did not include the middle initial in their citation.

For the Cited Work, titles of books and journals are often abbreviated in various ways. Misspellings found in bibliographies are not corrected, so it is often a good idea to enter a portion of the first word of the title followed by the asterisk or just the Cited Year(s).

 

Step 2

The next screen lists possible citations for the original work. Citation variations are often due to a paper's volume, page, and year being cited incorrectly by the citing author. Select the boxes next to ALL the citations that resemble the original citation and then click Finish Search

 

Step 3

On the results screen, you will have a list of all articles included in the Web of Science database that cite your original book or article.  You can refine the search based on Web of Science Categories to get a sense of how the book or article has been used by scholars in different fields.