Citation mining is when you use a relevant book or article to find more resources on the same topic.
Citation mining can look back before the paper was published or forward in time to find more recent information on the topic.
There are a couple of ways to citation mine.
- You can use an author's name to find other publications written by that person.
- You can review the paper or book reference list or reference page to find resources that the author referenced.
- You can find more recent citations of the book or article of interest to find more recent work on the topic. The easiest way to do this is by finding the article in a database or in Google Scholar and see the list of newer resources citing the work you are using.
- Use Research Rabbit to find related works
