Tip: Find Your Citations

Posted by Geoff Davis at 02PM on 01/02/07 | Categories: Skills | 3 comments

Quick tip: Want to see who is citing your work? Use Google Scholar!

Find your papers by searching for your name (if it's distinctive) or by searching for the titles of your papers. Helpful hints:

  • Use the exact form of your name that you use in papers and put it in quotes. In my case, "Geoffrey M Davis" (without the quotes Google can return papers for which one author has the first name Geoffrey and a different author has last name Davis).

  • Eliminate erroneous matches by restricting the search to the subject area of your research (look under Advanced Scholar Search).

For each search result, you'll see a link entitled "Cited by N" (where N is the number of citations) underneath. Click the link to see a list of papers citing your work.

Voila

This could be a big help if you're looking for a postdoctoral position: people who have cited your work clearly have similar interests and are already familiar with your work.