Dear Colleagues,
There is a growing number of databases which allow ‘lateral searching’ such as
PubMed (‘Related Articles’) or WoS (‘Find Related Records’). The latter
algorithm (WoS) relies on finding records which share references with the
source paper. The related records are then arranged (roughly) by number of
shared records.
It would seem reasonable to assume that this WoS algorithm works best when
starting with studies which have a high number of references.
My question: is there a quick way to re-arrange a search result with, say, 50
‘hits’ by the number of cited references they contain, similar to the way one
can re-arrange the references by ‘Times Cited’?
I suppose I can put all records into the ‘Marked List’, then ‘format the marked
list for printing’, include the ‘cited reference count’, then convert the
resulting list into an Excel table and arrange that table by the ‘cited
reference count’ and then start the ‘lateral search’ with the references with
the highest number of cited references.
I wonder: Is there a shorter way of doing this?
One of these ‘Friday questions’?
With many thanks for any tips
Reinhard
Reinhard Wentz, Dipl. Bibl.
Reference Desk
UCL Cruciform Library
Gower Street, London
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