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1. Access ISI Web of Science from http://library.lib.asu.edu/record=e1000458 (sign in for off campus use if necessary)
2. From the “ISI Web of Knowledge” home page, select “Web of Science” (lower left side)
3. Under "Select A Search Option", click on “Cited Ref Search” button.
4. In the “Cited Author” box, type in the author's name as lastname firstinitial* [A] and click on the search button [B]
   
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   See also Searching Tips below for authors with common names and large number of publications
   
   
5. Look for the citation(s) of interest, scrolling through the list to find both the mis-citations and well as the correct citation
   
   
   
   
6. Add the number from the both the correct citation and the mis-citations together to get the total citation count for the publication

1. Follow steps #1-5 under "How to Find the Citation Count for an Publication"
2. "Mark" the citation(s) of interest, scrolling through the list to find both the the mis-citations and well as the correct citation, by clicking in the box on the left for each item or using the “Select Page” button to select all items on the page.
3. Click on the “Finish Search” button, located at the top and bottom of the page, to retrieve the list of articles that cite the author's publications you selected.
4. The "Analyze" feature can be used to determine any trends in the citing set of articles; the analyze button is located in the right column:
   • Analyze by author to see if a particular person(s) repeatedly cites the publication
   • Analyze by institution name to see if a particular company/university repeatedly cite the publication (see example below)
   • Analyze by publication year to see when the majority of citations occured, if citations are evenly spread out, and/or if the publication is no longer being cited
   • Analyze by source title to see if citations are coming from a particular journal(s)
   • Analyze by subject category to see which fields find this publication useful
     
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How to Eliminate Self-Citations

1. Follow steps 1-3 under "How to Determine Who Has Cited a Publication"; this will create a “set” of the citing references.
2. At the top of the page, click on the “General Search” button. [C]
   
   
   
   
3. In the author box, put in the authors name with last name, first initial plus truncation. [D] and click on the Search button
   
   Example: Buseck P*   
   This will create a “set” of all the author's journal articles.
   
   
   
   
4. At the top of the Search Results -- Summary page, click on the “Advanced Search” button. [E]
   
   
   
   
5. Type "set number of the citing references" NOT "set number of the author's articles" [F] and click on the "Combine" search button [G].
   
   Example:
   
   In this case #1 is the set number of the citing references and #2 is the set number of the author's articles, so the search statement would be:    #1  NOT  #2
   
   
   
   
6. The resulting set will be the citing references with self-citations eliminated.
   
   
   

1. Use the "General Search" to find the article.
2. Click on the item's title to display the full record. [H]
   
   
   
   
3. In the right-hand column, click on the "Create Citation Alert" button.
   
   
   
   
4. Enter your personal id/password and click the "login" button. You will only have to do this once per session or you can choose to have the system use "cookie" technology to automatically log you in from that terminal whenever you enter the database.
5. Alerts are automatically set for one year.
6. To change the alert settings, access Citation Alerts (using the drop down menu at the top of every page) [J] and click the "Modify Settings" button. [K]
   
   
   
   
   
   

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