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Investigating Journal Prominence & Options

Who's Citing Me?

To compile a list of citations for your work, you must use multiple resources, because the way information resources track citations is not uniform across different platforms.

One easy way to do this is in Business Source Complete, which can track citations to a particular article (rather than all the citations to your body of work.) Log in and call up your article. If it is at least a few years old, you may see a list of articles contained within Business Source Complete which cited it. Please note, the "Cited References" are the articles from the bibliography. "Times Cited in the Database" is other articles which have referenced your article. This method tends to underestimate the number of times cited, because Business Source Complete may not have access to the full-text of all the articles it indexes, and thus can't compile a complete list of citations. 

 

You can also search for your article in Google Scholar, which will almost always list a much higher number of references. This is because Google Scholar scoops up citations from things like conference papers, book chapters, white papers, powerpoint presentations, or other things not counted by traditional journal citation indexes.

 

Web of Science: Business journals are included in this index. This is a traditionally prestigious means of gathering citations, but it has its limitations due to the highly selective nature of the journals it indexes.