{"id":13141,"date":"2021-09-17T16:30:01","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T15:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/library\/?p=13141"},"modified":"2024-10-18T12:37:48","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T11:37:48","slug":"pearl-growing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/library\/pearl-growing\/","title":{"rendered":"Pearl growing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Pearl growing is a way of\ndescribing the process of hopping from one source to another, for example\nreading a book, then following up foot notes and references to develop an\nargument for your essay or assignment. It can also apply to searching for\ninformation online and involves clicking on hyper-links from one web site to\nanother to find more in-depth and relevant information. &nbsp;The key difference between pearl growing and\nsearching is that there is an element of quality \u2013 you\u2019re not looking for the\ndiamond in the rough, but carefully constructing a beautiful pearl from small\nbits of sand. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Citation Databases<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Often pearl growing involves taking one relevant source, or&nbsp;citation, to find more relevant sources on a topic. This method can be refined further using <strong>citation databases<\/strong>, which help you establish the links between research. Unlike bibliographies at the end of books or journal articles, which cite previous research, citation databases allow you to look forward so you can see how research is evolving in a specific field. It\u2019s like a genealogy of research &#8211;  a sort of &#8216;Who is reading who&#8217;.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Web of Science<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ulms.ent.sirsidynix.net.uk\/client\/en_GB\/CCCU\/?rm=TEST0%7C%7C%7C1%7C%7C%7C1%7C%7C%7Ctrue#Wxx\">Web of Science<\/a> is a collection of citation databases. You can access it via the <strong>Find Databases<\/strong> menu on Library Search. It includes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Arts and Humanities Citation Index<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Social Sciences Citation Index<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>MEDLINE<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Science Citation Index<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Arts &amp; Humanities in Web of Science Core Collection\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fQuKJ8tpN9o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are interested in finding out the <strong>impact <\/strong>of a particular piece of research, you can view all of the\narticles that cite that research by clicking on the number next to the words <strong>Times Cited.<\/strong> You can read the abstracts\nto find out more about the articles and build up a picture of how the research\nhas been used by others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canterbury.ac.uk\/library\/docs\/web-of-science.pdf\">library guide<\/a> to Web of Science to find out more about how to search it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Google Scholar<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Google Scholar<\/strong> has a similar\n\u2018cited by\u2019 feature so that when you read an article you can find out who has\nused it in their research. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, if you had read Baucom, Nguyen and Hidalgo\u2019s 2009 article on minimally invasive Spigelian hernia repair, but want to know if their research had influenced other research in this field, you could look at the <strong>Cited by <\/strong>feature. There are over 31 articles which have cited Baucom, Nguyen and Hidalgo\u2019s research in their bibliographies of which two were published in 2019. This reveals that Baucom  Nguyen and Hidalgo\u2019s research  is still of interest to researchers today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Google Scholar: citation search\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-iO45W7-CiM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to know more, contact your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canterbury.ac.uk\/learning-skills-hub\/the-learning-skills-team-profiles\">Learning and Research Librarian<\/a>.<br><br>Featured image: Image by TheAnnAnn from Pixabay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pearl growing is a way of describing the process of hopping from one source to another, for example reading a book, then following up foot notes and references to develop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104205,"featured_media":13153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"authorName":"Michelle Crowther","featuredImage":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/638\/2019\/12\/pearl-2407275_1920.jpg","postExcerpt":"Pearl growing is a way of describing the process of hopping from one source to another, for example reading a book, then following up foot notes and references to develop [&hellip;]","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13141"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70358,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13141\/revisions\/70358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}