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There are many resources you can use for this type of research. This FAQ will focus on just three of them: Web of ScienceGoogle Scholar, and Research Rabbit. Web of Science is a library database and you must be logged into your mySNHU account to access it.  Google Scholar and Research Rabbit are free resources. To illustrate how they work, please see a sample title search in all three. The sample title is “The hunt for disability: The new eugenics and the normalization of school children.”

Web of Science (WoS)

Screenshot of Web of Science search

Screenshot of where in Web of Science to find how many times an article has been cited by other sources

You can see that this article, according to WoS, has been cited 71 times. To see the details of these sources, click on the number 71 which is hyperlinked.

Google Scholar

Screenshot of where in Google Scholar you can find how many times an article has been cited by other sources

According to Google Scholar, this article has been cited in 481 other sources. To see the details of these sources, click on “Cited by 481” which is hyperlinked.

To set up Google Scholar to provide full text links to our library, please follow the steps in this FAQ: How can I use Google Scholar to find electronic articles held by the Shapiro Library?

Research Rabbit

Research Rabbit does require that you set up a free account first. Once you do that, not only will you be able to see all the citations (sources that have cited your article), but also all of the References as well as similar articles. According to Research Rabbit, there are 199 articles that have cited this one. You can see a list of them in the All Citations column.


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