Hesburgh Libraries

Follow the citation trail — learn how to move forward in time from older citations to uncover the latest research.

Mining bibliographies to find connections in the literature is a superpower of those who are researching a topic.

This session will help you determine several things:

• 1.
  Who is using your research to advance knowledge?
• 2.
  You have an article or book that is excellent but it is a bit dated — Who is working on a similar topic to the resource you have in your hand?
• 3.
  Following the citation trail forward in time.
• 4.
  What is the h-index for a researcher?
• 5.
  Finding articles that share items from their bibliographies.

Bring a laptop.