Citation Research 

Many database publishers and some libraries have created tutorials to help you make better use of databases. The tutorials linked below focus on citation research.

ISI Web of Knowledge has a number of tutorials available in different languages on their Training web page at http://scientific.thomsonreuters.com/training/wok/. Below are links to several of these tutorials directly related to citation research and analysis.

JCR Enhancements - 2009

Journal Citation Reports click-through tutorial
http://scientific.thomson.com/tutorials/jcr4/jcr4tut11.html

ISI Web of Knowledge/Web of Science Citation Alerting (4:17 minutes)
http://www.brainshark.com/brainshark/vu/view.asp?pi=144448

Web of Science Cited Reference Searching (6:54 minutes)
http://www.brainshark.com/brainshark/vu/view.asp?pi=34671484

CSA Illumina has several tutorials and other training resources available through the database or at http://www.csa.com/support/index.php?SID=vl8aflodtv8mj6blqn1egueth6. To access these from the database, click on Help & Support on the right side near the top of the page.

Alerts
http://www.csa.com/help/index.html?SID=vl8aflodtv8mj6blqn1egueth6#qrc.html

Cited Reference Linking
http://www.csa.com/help/index.html?SID=vl8aflodtv8mj6blqn1egueth6#qrc.html

EBSCOhost has a variety of tutorlals available on their site at http://support.ebsco.com/training/tutorials.php.

While most of the EBSCO tutorials cover many aspects of searching the databases, the Basic Searching for Academic Libraries tutorial has a brief segment on using Cited Reference searching that runs from 3:56-4:50.  You can view this tutorial at http://support.ebsco.com/training/flash_videos/basic_search_academic_tut/basic_search_academic_tut.htm.  Use the slider bar at the bottom of the screen to move forward to view the section on Cited Reference searching.

HighWire Press does not have any online tutorials. Instead, see their Help with Searching page at http://highwire.stanford.edu/help/search_help.dtl.

Finding articles that cite a paper written by a certain author
http://highwire.stanford.edu/help/search_help.dtl#cite

Citation Map (a graphic representation of articles citing or cited by a found article)
http://highwire.stanford.edu/help/search_help.dtl#citemap

ScienceDirect has Interactive Tutorials available at http://help.sciencedirect.com/robo/projects/sdhelp/tutorials/sd_menu.html.

Using Alerts includes instructions for setting up Search, Topic, Volume/Issue, and Citation Alerts. Citations alerts is toward the end of this tutorial.
http://help.sciencedirect.com/robo/projects/sdhelp/tutorials/alerts.html

SciFinder Scholar's Support & Training website at http://www.cas.org/support/academic/sf/index.html links to different types of training. How to Guides are geared to the beginning user and SciFinder Strategies are for more advanced users.

See Identify Related Citations for citation research help.
http://www.cas.org/support/scifi/howto/citation.html

Citation Research Group:
  Lydia LaFaro
  Linda Shackle
  Leslee Shell

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