Requesting a Dialog Citation Search

Librarians will preform a Dialog search for materials published prior to 1996.
RSS feeds in Scopus helps keep track of new citations to a scholar’s work on an ongoing basis.

In order for us to conduct a citation search in the ISI Social SciSearch, SciSearch or Arts & Humanities
Search databases available through our Dialog subscription, the following information is required:

Who is requesting the search:

Campus Address:

Email Address:

Phone Number:

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The search is for and the search is requested because:

considering offering a faculty position to this person at UAlbany

person is under review for continuing appointment

person is under review for promotion from rank of

search is requested for (other reason)

List full name and variations under which faculty member has published,
including middle name, middle initial, compound or hyphenated name

Coauthors’ full names and any variants

Known misspellings of faculty member's name and co-authors' names

Please submit a listing of complete citations in chronological order of all the items you wish to have searched:

List by lead (or first) author
include complete entries for thesis, journal articles, books, book chapters
if results are desired for conference proceedings and/or presentations, include complete citations in the chronological listing by lead author
please highlight entries for which more in-depth information would be of assistance – no more than five; if we have enough advanced notice, more information will be provided

Indicate output format – Please note the timelines for each – we need this time to present the most accurate tabulation so that the case is strong.

Total combined count of all citations to all references [link to example]– two weeks of advanced notice[output example]

Ranked listing of counts for all entries by year cited --minimum four weeks advance notice required [output example]

Total count of citations per each entry cited – minimum eight weeks advanced notice [output example]