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Mining Citations

Online Citation Searchers

You can also find useful free or low-cost citation searchers online. 

Below are several suggested online citation searchers. If you find titles of relevant resources using these citation searchers, you can use the Publication Finder to see if they are available in the CSU Library or WorldCat to see if a library near you has access.

Use Connected Papers to get a visual overview of similar papers in the field, make sure you have not missed an important paper, created a bibliography for your dissertation, and discover the most relevant prior and derivative works.

Use Google Scholar's "Cited by" and "Related articles" features in the search results to find additional citations.

Access Inciteful to learn more about a new topic, find the latest literature, or figure out how two ideas are connected.

Utilize LitMaps' citation network to discover literature that may be easily overlooked with other search methods.