Refining your keyword search strategy is essential for your literature review – but have you considered expanding your search with other tools? This session will focus on citation-based searching and will help HDR students and researchers take advantage of new technologies to find key papers, authors, and topics, and begin to visualise citation networks. Please note, database search basics will not be covered in this session. If you are looking for refresher in using databases and searching for information more generally, we recommend working through each section of the Skills for study page.

Who should attend

This workshop is targeted at new or recently commenced Higher Degree by Research students; however, staff or other researchers seeking a refresher are also welcome to attend.

Objectives

• Identify the benefits of citation-based literature searching
• Practice different citation-based search strategies, such as:
  • Searching backwards and forwards with citations
  • Analysing results
  • Exploring citation context
  • Finding similar and related papers
• Introduce advanced uses of citation data, such as science mapping tools.

Resources used

Scopus, Web of Science, Google Scholar, and more.

Important access information

For everyone’s security, the link to this Zoom session will be sent out one day prior to the training. This information is also included in the calendar invitation sent along with your confirmation email. If you do not receive the confirmation email, please check your spam folder.

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