Research skills instruction for the week 4 instruction section in the M1 food and sustainability cluster

1. 3+ articles cited by
Eshel et. al.
3+ articles that cite
Eshel et. al.
2+ articles not cited in
or cited by Eshel et. al.
How are these
interconnected?
Review: What do we have to do for Writing Assignment #2?
Done? Almost
done? Today!

2. Notebook Review:
Why might citation be an
essential part of scientific
publishing?
What would happen if
scientific publications did not
contain citations to previous
work? Nordy (2017). Lecture slides - Week 1, Lecture 1. Food:
A lens for environment and sustainability.
Talk to a partner about your research notebook:

3. Notebook Review:
1. Form groups exploring similar themes:
What themes are you exploring?
Which articles did you choose? Have you
started reading? What is interesting or
2. With your group:

4. Notebook Review:
What themes are you exploring?
?

5. Getting Ready: Finding articles that cite Eshel, et. al.
1. Take notes in your research notebook in the section “In-class research
activity” - be sure to add notes about the articles you find to this section.
2. Open up our class research guide: guides.library.ucla.edu/GEM1 and click
on the “Articles” tab.
3. Click on “Web of Science”
Ask for help if you need it! Give a thumbs-up when you are ready!

6. Finding articles that cite Eshel, et. al.
First, let’s find Eshel et. al. in Web of Science:

7. Finding articles that cite Eshel, et. al.
Next, use the “Citation
Network” to find articles
that cite Eshel et. al.

8. Finding articles that cite Eshel, et. al.
Wait. This is a massive list.
How am I going to work with
all these records?
Read them all? Skim them
all?
Filter and sort!
Let’s walk through the
super-powerful filtering and
sorting features in WoS

9. Finding articles that cite Eshel, et. al.
Search within the results.
Very useful if you have a few
keywords related to your
topic.
Example searches:
“Life cycle assessment” OR LCA
chicken OR poultry
“nitrogen footprint”

10. Finding articles that cite Eshel, et. al.
WoS helps you find papers
that are frequently cited.
This lets you focus on the
most discussed and most
influential articles.

11. Finding articles that cite Eshel, et. al.
Filter by publication year.
Useful if you want to find out
the most recent research on a
topic.
Note: this assignment doesn’t
specify a range for publication
year, but some assignments do!

12. Finding articles that cite Eshel, et. al.
Filter by Discipline!
Super useful to narrow your
results to particular fields of
study!
Tip: click “more options /
values” to see the complete
list.

13. Finding articles that cite Eshel, et. al.
And don’t forget
the sort options at
the top of the
page.
Very useful to
quickly sort by
times cited or
publication year.

14. Finding articles that cite Eshel, et. al.
Ready to give it a try?
Search for articles that cite Eshel, et. al. that are related to your
themes for Writing Assignment #2.
Ask for help, help each other, share your challenges, celebrate your successes!
Use several of the strategies we have identified:
• Filtering by discipline
• Finding highly cited articles
• Searching for keywords related to your theme
• Your own tricks and techniques! (Please share!)

15. Bonus tip: Look for ways to quickly generate a citation.
1 2 3
Copy citations you like to your research notebook.

16. Next challenge: Find 2+ articles that are not cited in Eshel or by Eshel.
Eshel et. al. 2014
3+ articles
that cite Eshel
here’s what we have so far:
3 + articles
cited by Eshel
Next, we need to find 2 more articles not cited
by Eshel, and that don’t cite Eshel.

17. Next challenge: Find 2+ articles that are not cited in Eshel or by Eshel.
Eshel et. al. 2014
3 + articles
cited by Eshel
3+ articles
that cite Eshel
not cited by or in Eshel
not cited by
or in Eshel
not cited by
or in Eshel
Max’s Tip: Use the same strategy to
follow the research conversation!
double check to make sure there is no direct
citation relationship w/ Eshel Et. Al.

18. Bonus tip: Really explore your results!
Copy citations you like to your research notebook.
Maybe there is a
journal related to
your theme?
or an article in a
highly rated journal?
Or a UCLA Researcher
you could work with?
clicking on a journal
name in WOS gives you
ranking info.

19. Looking for help with the next steps?
We are here to help!
Lots of useful tips in your research
notebook for Writing Assignment #3.
Set up a consult with Your Librarian or
Your InqSpec!
Library.ucla.edu/questions
:-)