More Options for Citation Searching

From the CHMINF-L list, July 14/06.

As a follow up to Nisa Bakkalbasi's the paper - "An Examination of Citation Counts in a New Scholarly Communication Environment", D-Lib Magazine September 2005 [http://www.dlib.org//dlib/september05/bauer/09bauer.html] (and mentioned below, Comparison of three options for citation tracking: Google Scholar, Scopus and Web of Science), the Royal Society of Chemistry, American Physical Society and American Institute of Physics have all announced new citation searching features:

The Royal Society of Chemistry has introduced a 'Forward Linking' option which provides 'Search for citing articles' links, at the article level, to citing articles in the CrossRef database. The CrossRef references include DOI links to the full text of the citing article. This feature is freely available to non-subscribers.
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The American Physical Society has expanded the citation searching feature in PROLA, which currently includes articles from 1893-2002, to include the CrossRef database. A 'Show Articles Citing This One' link is provided at the end of the abstract record. Results are presented in reverse chronological order and the default gives both PROLA and CrossRef citations. Additional results are grouped by citing journal and year cited, which are ordered according to the number of citations, not alphabetically or chronologically. A 'Show Only APS Citations' link is also available. While full-text searching and displaying citations (including abstracts) is free, subscriptions are required for display of full text and citing articles.

The APS current file (currently 2003+), while available from the PROLA interface, has a different display offering links to: Citing APS & Scitation Articles, CrossRef Citing Articles and All Citing Articles.
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The American Institute of Physics has expanded their citation searching feature, in Scitation, to include the CrossRef database. Links are provided at the top of the Abstract page to: Scitation Citing Articles, CrossRef Citing Articles and All Citing Articles. This feature is freely available to non-subscribers.