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I am using Mendeley referencing manager. It is quite simple to use. Why I would recommend you try it; www.mendeley.com

1. Free

2. It has a desktop system (you can with it off-line)

3. Create your own library

- create own folders

- Create groups / teams

- Share references with others

- Synchronise files with your Mendeley web account and other applications e.g MS Word

3. Intext citation and referencing is no longer an issue it a matter of selecting what referencing system is required and Mendeley will do it for you. If you need to change from one system to the other, its just a button click and it does apply the new system to your Document.

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There are other referencing systems, like Endnote, Zotero

Dear Nyarai, thank you for your answer am going to try it. Tell me please, how can this software analyse books if they are not available in the internet???? Just because my problem is exactly that many of books you cannot find in the web but you citation is inside.

As far as I know, Mendeley is primarily about managing the bibliography of things that you will be citing, rather than counting citations to your own work.

For counting citations to your own work, I personally find that Google Scholar works better than Web of Science, and one of the main reasons is that it is more likely to capture citations to your work that appear in books. In addition, it covers a wider range of journals than WoS.

Whatever source you use, there is always going to be some limitation in coverage. There is no way for any site to search through the bibliography of every book and every journal article in every field, to find the "true" total number of citations you have received. Instead, everyone has to face this limitation and use the best sources available, Where Google Scholar and Web of Science are the two closest things to a gold standard.

@Agnes, What I normally do if I get something in book form from the library, I scan the title page and some notes on what I have used from the text plus page number and upload it to Mendeley and manually write up the required fields for referencing purposes,

@David I agree with you 100%, system have some limitation and you can not stick to one source but I use Google scholar a lot as well, I haven''t tried WoS.

Hi Dear Colleagues, I agree with both of you but this limitation can be seen as a handicapp because many of your national publication they have no trace in scholar or WOS too. So, as I experience we have only that way to sit in a library and look for our cited papers page by page. Terrible is not it????

Google Scholar is one of the best for measuring citations to our own work as it will include most of the journals and books which are not probably found in other softwares as mentioned by previous commenters.

@Agnes: You are completely correct when you complain that it is impossible for you to keep track of everybody that has cited you. Nobody asks you if they can cite you or lets you know that they have.

I too have always rebelled at those who require that we produce such counts. For example, I have been cited in a journal published in Russia, and only discovered this many years later just by chance. I have no idea how many PhD and Master's theses, locally or in foreign countries, have cited any of my works.

Giving Scholar "agnes toth sopron" will only find some citations to your works. (So, this is one good reason for us to ensuring that all papers we publish are on the Web.)

However, you should also use Science Citation Index as part of your protocol!

Thank you so much for your sentences dear Ian. I am fighting with our National Science Academy. They want me to list everything but I can only find internet publications and nothing else. They suggested me to sit in a library and check all the books/journals published in my research area. I told them I am not ready to do that rather I do not need their reward :(

Ask "them" to provide the money for a research assistant to trawl all journals!

My supervisor had a similar attitude to you: You need to get on with your work.

Yesss Ian, I think I should do this @ but afraid of they will refuse this option...@@ You know, I have no secretary to solve this problem so we researchers and authors fight with the situation periodically.

Thank you for your guide Prof. David Morgan! I've just found out my former lecturer when I was in UG published a paper in 1999 with us as co-authors. I just knew it now when I browse through Google scholar citation. I just gained an impact point of 0.5 for my RG!! Brilliant!

I tend to use google scholar which seems to give a broader coverage.  There are others available as well such as Scopus and Web of science.

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Yes, GOOGLE SCHOLAR may be a good solution if every publication is uploaded to the web....and what about printed (and olny printed) publications????

Scan your printed publications one by one into your PDF database. Then you can search them by keyphrase, tags or theme.

I'm not very connoisseur, For me, I go to my account on Scopus, I open with the password of my Institution, I can click number of citations of on any of my published or in press paper, I will see all who cited me.

Nevertheless, RG platform inform more quickly of any new citations,...

Also, Google scholar can give you these citations,...

I don't know, which is more rapid and reliable, I will learn more through the answers given for your question in this platform. ...

You should try "publish or perish" software. It's really simple and you can check all your citations.

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Dear Colleagues, many thanks for your answer.

Let me to think that it is a hard job probably harder than to write a new article or something like that. It is okay if some of us has a secretary who can help, but not for me :( :(

I am a huge fan of 'Refworks' (a significant amount of my colleagues use Endnote). If cost is an issue, and you are looking for a propitiatory piece of software to take the hassle out of this -I suggest consulting here:

https://elearningindustry.com/12-best-free-online-bibliography-and-citation-tools