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GERO 8100 Research Methods

Cited Reference Searching is the strategy of finding additional resources that have cited the resource that you already found - still generally on-topic, and they will be more recent than the original source! Many databases include Cited By options in their records, but Google Scholar adds a helpful Search Within Cited Articles function that can provide extra help for a long list of results.

Cited Reference Searching in Google Scholar

1. Turn on Library Links in Google Scholar to ensure you also retrieve GSU sources. This is the example article below, found in PubMed:

de Souto Barreto, P., Morley, J. E., Chodzko-Zajko, W., Pitkala, K. H., Weening-Djiksterhuis, E., Rodriguez-Mañas, L., Barbagallow, M., Rosendahl, P. T., Sinclair, A., Landi, F., Izguierdo, M., Vellas, B., & Rolland, Y. (2016). Recommendations on physical activity and exercise for older adults living in long-term care facilities: A taskforce report. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 17(5), 381-392. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27012368/

 

2. Search for your article title in Google Scholar. Click the Cited By option underneath the description.

 

3. Click the Search Within Citing Articles checkbox to use the search bar to search your pool of results.