Library Guides: COM 101: Introduction to Communication Studies: Chain of Research

Strategy

Found a good article? Check out the articles it cites, and use Google Scholar to find articles that cite it. This helps you follow the "chain of research" on a topic and get a better idea of the research conversation.

ResearchRabbit will also help finding citing articles, and will use AI to try to point you to similar articles.

Find Citing Articles in Google Scholar

Google Scholar has a "cited by" link that will take you to citing articles.

Use the library's link to Google Scholar to see Get it @ UP connections to full text, or change your Google Scholar settings to make the connections appear by reloading the page.

When to Use Google Scholar

Google Scholar can be a useful search tool, because you can search the full text of articles. Use it for these purposes:

Locate articles when you feel stuck
Identify a useful article, and bring it back to Clark Library databases to see how they describe it
- You might find the database subject terms, to help you find similar articles.
Bring an article to Google Scholar from Clark Library databases, to find newer articles that cite it.
- Search within citing articles to make sure the newer articles are relevant.

Find Similar (per AI) Articles in ResearchRabbit

ResearchRabbit
Free to use with an account sign-up. This is an AI-based literature mapping tool. Using a “seed” article, the platform finds related articles that you can explore through a bubble map visualization. This initiative is supported by a development collective, which has pledged to keep the core discovery functionalities open for all to use.
- Personalized Paper Recommendations: Suggests relevant academic papers based on citation relationships and content similarity.
- Visual Literature Mapping: Creates interactive visualizations of paper and author networks.
- Dynamic Updates: Continuously updates recommendations as new papers are published.
- Easy Project Creation: Allows users to create and manage research projects effortlessly.
- Collaboration Tools: Facilitates collaboration with other researchers, including sharing collections and leaving comments.
- Integration with Citation Managers: Supports exporting and importing papers with Zotero.