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Bioethics

About journal articles

If you are looking for a scholarly article, make sure to limit your search results to peer-reviewed articles. Peer-reviewed (or refereed) journals are scholarly journals that only publish articles that have passed through the process of peer-review: widely accepted indicator of high quality scholarly content of the articles. During this process the articles are evaluated by the recognized scholars in the field and are recommended or rejected for publication in a spesific journal.
 
Many databases allow you to limit your search results to scholarly peer-reviewed publications either by cheking the box "Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals" under the limit search option or by narrowing results by source type.

Find more details about spesific periodical

If you would like to find more information on a spesific periodicals, you can consult Ulrichsweb
 
Ulrichsweb is an easy to search source of detailed information on more than 300,000 periodicals (also called serials) of all types: academic and scholarly journals, e-journals, peer-reviewed titles, popular magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and more.

How to create citation report in Web of Science

Software for citation metrics

Publish or Perish is a free software program that retrieves and analyzes academic citations. It uses Google Scholar and Microsoft Academic Search to obtain the raw citations, then analyzes these and presents the metrics of total number of papers and total number of citations, average citations per paper, citations per author, papers per author, and citations per year, the age-weighted citation rate and more.

Citation analysis

Many subject databases provide “Cited by” links.

Journal impact factor