Research Guides: Political Science 201: Methods & Statistics: Citation Mining

Citation Mining

Citations from Bibliographies

Another good way to identify relevant literature is to look at bibliographies and what sources other scholars cite.

Outside of the bibliographies of the sources you have collected, you can find additional bibliographies in tools like Oxford Bibliographies, or looking at other Literature Reviews (Annual Reviews is a good place to look for literature reviews):

Oxford Bibliographies
A collection of online, annotated bibliographies; each entry is compiled by experts in the field and provides citations to the key literature on a topic, including print and online resources. We have access to selected collections only.
The library has the following collections:
--African Studies
--Art History
--Atlantic History
--Biblical Studies
--Chinese Studies
--Cinema and Media Studies
--Classics
--Islamic Studies
--Latin American Studies
--Latino Studies
--Psychology
--Public Health
--Renaissance and Reformation
Annual Reviews
(1932 to present) Full text review and overview articles on important topics in the Biomedical, Life, Physical, and Social Sciences. Includes 51 Annual Review titles.

Finding Citations with Google Scholar

Google Scholar allows you to see how many times, and by whom, a source is cited.

The "Cited By" feature is an excellent way to both find additional sources and to determine which sources are cited often.

Google Scholar
Searches many scholarly publications, including articles, books, preprints, reports, and more. Interdisciplinary. Provides some links to full text (often through the library's own subscriptions). If you find a source and can't retrieve the full text, be sure to check our Journal Finder before using interlibrary loan.