Today in class, I learned a very relevant tool for researching: What FIND IT! does. Countless times already, I have found sources for research that were not available. Today, I learned how to get these articles. I also learned today about the Who’s Who! Database and how that can provide brief overviews on a person’s profession, education, and past publications. Lastly, I learned that Google scholar is not the most reliable source since it allows more citing than necessary.
I would like to learn how to evaluate where an article got IT’s sources from. This way, I can put together better searches and rely on more accurate databases.
When you pull up a listing (technically, a “record”) for an article in Web of Science, you get two numbers: the number of times that article has been cited and the number of items that article cites itself. Both numbers are clickable. If you click the second number, you’ll see a list of all the sources the author cited in his/her article. If that article you are looking up in Web of Science is something you consider to be highly relevant to your research needs, then the items cited in that article might also be relevant to you and worth tracking down.