Citation Searching in SciSearch

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Citation Searching in SciSearch

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You can use citation searching in SciSearch in two ways:

  • Search for any documents that have cited one or more references. Use SELECT CIT for several references, or TRANSFER CIT for many references from multiple databases.
  • Search for “related” documents, i.e., documents that have cited one or more references from the same set of cited references. Related record searching allows you to find documents related to another document or a set of documents by virtue of having cited one or more of the same references.

Example Use Cases

Example 1. Cited reference searching with SELECT CIT - Find documents citing the 2012 landmark article on CRISPR technology co-authored by Jennifer Doudna and published in Science.

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  1. Find the article of interest
  2. Use SEL CIT to create an E-number search term from the article’s bibliographic information.
  3. Enter SciSearch.
  4. Search the E-number to find articles citing the original document.5. Use the HIT display format to display the hit cited references.

Example 2. Cited reference searching with TRANSFER CIT - Find any documents in SciSearch that have cited any of the references from MEDLINE® or CAplusSM on the sequencing of Ebola virus.

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  1. Search MEDLINE and CAplus for references on the topic.
  2. Remove duplicates.
  3. Enter SciSearch
  4. Use TRANSFER CIT to create search terms from the bibliographic information of the articles in L5 and search them as cited references in SciSearch.
  5. Sort the answers by the frequency of occurrence (OCC) of hit terms (highest to lowest). Documents with the highest hit reference counts are brought to the top of the answer set.

Example 3. Related record searching in SciSearch - Find related literature citing one or more of the references from the article on lecanemab, a treatment for early Alzheimer’s disease, published in January 2023 in the New England Journal of Medicine.

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  1. Find the article of interest in SciSearch.
  2. Use TRANSFER to create search terms from the 27 cited references in the RE field of the New Englad Journal of Medicine article in L1 and search them as cited references. L3 contains documents that have cited one or more of the cited references in the article.
  3. Sort the answers in the order of occurrence (OCC) of hit terms (highest to lowest). Sort by reference count (REC) within each occurrence grouping.
  4. The original article is listed first with 100% of hit cited references
  5. Record 2 has 10 hit cited references in common with the NEJM article.

Example 3. Related record searching in SciSearch or more information (cont.)

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For more information: Refer to the SciSearch Database Summary Sheet