Citation databases
Citation databases are collections of bibliographic information and citations of scholarly works, such as journal articles, books, conference proceedings, and theses. These databases are used by researchers to keep track of their own work and the work of others in their field, and to conduct citation analysis.
For example, consider the Web of Science citation database. This database contains information on over 12,000 international journals across all disciplines, and provides citation information for each item. Researchers can use this database to search for articles in their field, and to determine the number of times an article has been cited by other researchers. This information can be used to evaluate the impact of the article and its author, and to identify key players in the field based on their number of citations.
Some examples of citation databases include:
- PubMed (Biomedical and life sciences)
- Web of Science (Multi-disciplinary)
- Scopus (Multi-disciplinary)
- Google Scholar (Multi-disciplinary)
- ACM Digital Library (Computer Science and Technology)
- JSTOR (Arts and humanities, Social Sciences)
- IEEE Xplore (Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Technology)
- ProQuest (Multi-disciplinary)
- ScienceDirect (Physical Sciences and Engineering)
