Research Resources

Citation Indexes

Citation indexes are a good way to identify prominent researchers working in your field of study.

Free resources:

Citations in Economics

CiteSeer (Computers and information science)

getCITED

Google Scholar (for recent articles, Google Scholar provides a "cited by" link that provides the number of times the article has been cited and a list of the citing articles.

Subscription-based:

SCOPUS

Web of Science (includes Science Citation Index Expandedâ„¢, Social Sciences Citation Index®, and the Arts & Humanities Citation Index®; you can search the combined databases or select an individual one.)

Additional resources for getting a research project started.

• Google Scholar: the new generation of citation indexes