There are three major databases with indexes to find citations of a scientific paper or author: Web of Science, Scopus and Google Scholar.
These indexes are used as tools to assess research activity and to count the number of citations of scientific papers.
Locate received citations (journal articles, books, reviews) [in Catalan]. Recommended resource to learn how to search for received citations in Web of Science, Scopus and Google Scholar and to search for reviews in Dialnet and Google Scholar.
Web of Science
Web of Science provides various options for finding citations. Once the search has been completed, information on the citations that an article has received can be found in the Times cited section.
A more comprehensive search can be carried out via the Cited Reference Search tab, which can be used to search by cited author or paper. In addition, this option covers citations of papers that are not indexed in the Web of Science.
Scopus
A Scopus search gives a list of results, including the number of citations that papers have received. Author searches give the total number of citations that an author has received for all their works in the Scopus database.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar provides data on citations of authors and their works. It searches journals, books and book chapters. The results show information on the number of citations a paper has received among the documents in its database.
In addition, we recommend a tool devised by the EC3 research group at the University of Granada [Spanish].
Standard criteria for listing the authors of scientific papers
The CRAI recommends the following documents.