LibGuides: Tracking Scholarship in the Humanities: Citation Tracking Tools

Google Citations

Google Scholar includes a tool intended to let authors track citations to their work - use the Cited By link under your article's citation.

Google Scholar article search
Google Scholar Citations
Requires a Google account.
about Google Scholar citations
Other Google-based tools
The items below are add-ons that track citation details in concert with Google Scholar.
Publish or Perish Firefox add-on
About Publish or Perish and Google Scholar
2008

Metrics

Metrics Toolkit: Helping you Navigate the Research Metrics Landscape
The Metrics Toolkit is a resource for researchers and evaluators that provides guidance for demonstrating and evaluating claims of research impact. With the Toolkit you can quickly understand what a metric means, how it is calculated, and if it’s good match for your impact question.

Bibliometrics and Altmetrics
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Impact Factors
Guide from University of Washington that differentiates journal, author and article impact factors.
Measuring Research Impact (UCSD)
HumetricsHSS
HuMetricsHSS endeavors to create and support a values-based framework for understanding and evaluating all aspects of the scholarly life well-lived and for promoting the nurturing of these values in scholarly practice.

Arts & Humanities Citation Index

Subset of citations from Web of Knowledge, above; this link lets you search by author.

Arts and Humanities Citation Index
Use the Cited Author search and enter names in the format LASTNAME, A or LASTNAME, AB or LASTNAME A*

Scopus

Scopus author search
Humanities coverage in Scopus is limited.

Tracking Book Citations

Hathi Trust
Search full text of digitized books. Many results will be "snippet view" only.

None of these are tools designed for tracking citations of books or published in books.

The best you can do is search through the full text of books to identify citations to your work. Here are some large collections of academic books that are full-text searchable.

Ebsco eBook Collection
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search a collection of ebooks from academic presses

Browse e-books for quick research and reference or create a free account to check out items, create notes, and list favorites.
Ebook Central
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Digital copies of more than 30,000 complete books, reports and other resources covering all academic subject areas.

Books and other materials are arranged in five main subject areas - business and economics, career and general education, computers, engineering and applied sciences, humanities, social/behavioral sciences and life/physical sciences. The ebrary reader is required to view books and can be downloaded for free from ebrary. A free account is needed In order to access some features (i.e. saving notes and highlights).
Google Books
Search full text of digitized books. Many results will be "snippet view" only.

Depending on copyright status, you may see your search term highlighted in snippets of the text or in a "limited preview" of a few pages of the book. If the book is out of copyright (published before 1923), you'll be able to page through the entire book or download it as a PDF. UNLV Libraries does not have any special subscription access to books in Google Books, so if your search leads you to a book you want that is not in our collection, consider requesting it from interlibrary loan.

WorldCat Identities
Beta site to consolidate works cited in WorldCat by author. Searches catalog records, not full text.

Tracking Scholarship in the Humanities

Google Citations

Metrics

Arts & Humanities Citation Index

Scopus

Tracking Book Citations

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