Take the following reference as an example:

• Cheong, H., Wu, J., Gonzales, L. K., Guttentag, S. H., Thompson, C. B., & Lindsten, T. (January 01, 2014). Analysis of a lung defect in autophagy-deficient mouse strains. Autophagy, 10, 1, 45-56.

Look to the information on the right hand side of the page. There you will find a link for the number of times the paper has been cited (9 times in this case). If you click on the hyperlinked number of times cited, you will be brought to a list of the citing publications (those papers that have cited this one). From here you can browse and filter the list, or export to EndNote (and other bibliographic management tools/formats).

If you prefer to generate some visual representations of the citation network, you can analyze the results or create a citation report of the cited references (again, links on the right hand side of the page). Note: the citation network for this paper is limited to the world of Web of Science—it does not extend further than those citations indexed in this particular database.

We can help with cited reference searching and special bibliometric analysis projects, just ask us!

Whether you have an ORCID iD or not, the ORCID@MSK page can provide you with lots of useful information. Our FAQ page might even be able to answer some of your questions without having to search on your own or contact us. Questions like: Is ORCID just for articles?; When will I use the ORCID identifier?; Who manages my ORCID record?; How does Synapse work with ORCID?

Here are some additional blog posts related to ORCID for further reading:

• ORCID@MSK – New Library Service Supporting Researchers’ Scholarly Workflow
• ORCID IDs Are Now Being Indexed in PubMed
• Keep your Scopus Author Profile Accurate with ORCID

If you’re new to ORCID@MSK and would like to learn more about how the Library supports the ORCID initiative, visit our informational page. You can also contact us in a number of ways for assistance.

Co-First/Equal authorship is when two or more individuals are noted as providing the same or equal contribution(s) to a published work. To find this information in a full text or PDF article, first locate the article in PubMed (or another database), link to the publisher’s site (using the buttons in the upper right corner of a record), download the full text where possible, and check both the “Author Affiliation” and “Footnotes” sections (if one exists) to see if there is any mention of co-first/equal authorship for the research—this is where this information is usually listed.

Here’s an example of co-first authorship on a paper: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0000396. Notice the CO icon next to each of the first authors—hover over this icon to see a complete description. Continue reading →