The Times Cited count indicates the number of times a published paper was cited by other papers including proceedings papers.

How We Count Citing Articles

We count citations from the reference list in journals, conference proceedings, book series, and other papers that are indexed in Web of Science.

Citing article counts are for all years (from 1900 to the present) and all five citation indexes in Web of Science - not just for your current year limits and indexes included in your subscription (which may be smaller). The citation indexes include the following.

• Science Citation Index Expanded
• Social Sciences Citation Index
• Arts & Humanities Citation Index
• Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science
• Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Social Sciences & Humanities

Moreover, we do not count the same reference (duplicate cites) more than once from a single source. For instance, if an author cites a paper five times in the body of an article (abbreviated in-text citations), we only process and count a reference once.

The methodology for calculating the Times Cited count is applied for all Web of Science records and for all subscriptions to Web of Science. If you view Times Cited for a record from anywhere in the world, the value is always the same.

The two Conference Proceedings citation indexes were recently added to Web of Science. The Times Cited count now includes records that have been cited by conference records.

Footnotes and Endnotes

We will process and count citations in footnotes and endnotes, but we only count a citation once regardless whether it appears in both a footnote and in a reference list.

English and Non-English Citations

Some citations may be presented in both English and also in another language within the same reference list. These are known as duplicate citations. As a rule, we provide the English citation provided it has the same amount or more information than the foreign citation.

Source Articles and Cited Articles

Keep in mind the difference between source articles and cited articles. Source articles are from journals that we have indexed in Web of Science. Every source article has a Full Record in the database.