Citation Alerts

A citation alert lets you know when an article in a database has been cited by another article in the database and is particularly useful if you are keeping track of citations of your own work for research assessment purposes.

Any of the Web of Knowledge databases (Web of Science, CAB, ISI Proceedings), searched individually or as a group, are able to provide alerts when an article is cited in Web of Science - to create a citation alert you need to register yourself and sign in. Once you have done this you simply open the record by clicking on the blue title link.




Now click on the Create Citation Alert button



An email alert is automatically created




Whilst you could create an RSS feed as well this is probably less useful - citation alerts often produce few or no results.

As well as the Web of Knowledge database, ScienceDirect and Cambridge Journals Online also provide citation alerts.