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STAT 399

Course guide for STAT 399 - Comps - Taught by Katie St. Clair

Using Citations

In most disciplines, two key research strategies involve careful investigation of citations and bibliographies.

  1. Mining the bibliographies of things you've found to look for further useful reading (see the page Have a Citation but Want to Find The Actual Text)
  2. Looking for scholarship that has cited particularly interesting things you've found (called "cited reference searching," outlined below)

Citation Mining

"Cited By"

Works that cited a particular original work.

  1. Search for a topic or work in Google Scholar
  2. Click the "cited by" link under a relevant result
  3. The resulting works all cite the first work

"Related"

Works that cite many of the same sources that a particular work cites.

  1. Search for a topic or work in Google Scholar
  2. Click the "Related Articles" link under a relevant result
  3. The resulting works will cite one or more articles that the first work cited

Searching within a result list

  1. Check the box that says, "Search within citing articles," at the top of the result list and then enter a new search.

 

Finding an Article from a Citation

Article citations generally have an author's name, an article title, a journal title, volume and issue numbers, a year of publication, and page numbers or a DOI (digital object identifier).

citation example

  1. Type the article title into Google Scholar and locate an article record to see any access options. If none are apparent, click the Carleton text on the right. 
  2. Search the article title in Catalyst to see if the library has access.
  3. Use the Journals List to see if we have access to the Journal (the name in italics) you need, and that we have access to the year you need. (You may also want to search the Wiley Online Library, since we have access to that collection through a different system.)
  4. If we don't have the journal you need, order the article via Interlibrary Loan and we'll get it to you from another library as quickly as possible (generally a few days to a week).