Current Awareness Tools: Citation Alerts

Google Scholar offers two different types of citation alerts: document/article and author.

Document/Article Citation Alerts

To create a citation alert for a specific article, click on the number of times it has been cited and then click on "Create Alert."

Author Citation Alerts

Citation alerts to all citations from a single author is only available for authors who have set up an author profile in Google Scholar. For those authors (author profile displayed at the top of results or an underlined author name in the results), look under the "Follow this Author" box on the left and click on the "Follow new citations" link.

You can set up your own Google Scholar profile to receive alerts on your publications and show citation metrics. To set up an alert for your citations, select "Follow new citations" from the appropriate checkbox in the "Follow"/"Following" menu of your own profile.

Scopus offers two different types of citation alerts: document/article and author.

Document/Article Citation Alerts

To create a citation alert for a specific article, do the following:

1. Select the "Create Account" button in the top right corner of the Scopus homepage to create a Scopus account (or select "Sign In" if you already have an account).
2. On the document detail page for the article of interest, click "Set citation alert" on the right side of the page.
   
3. In the pop-up window that appears, enter the following details:
   • Enter a name for the alert.
   • Enter the email address to which alerts should be sent.
   • Select how often you want to receive alert email notices.
   • Select an email format.
   • Select "Active" or "Inactive" as the status of your alert.
   • Depending upon which form you are completing, click "Set Alert" or "Save" to save the alert.

Author Citation Alerts

To create a citation alert for a specific author, do the following:

1. Select the "Create Account" button in the top right corner of the Scopus homepage to create a Scopus account (or select "Sign In" if you already have an account).
2. From an author details page (click on the name of an author and select "View full profile"), click "Set alert".
   
3. In the pop-up window that appears, enter the following details:
   1. Enter a name for the alert.
   2. Enter the email address where you want the alert to be sent.
   3. Select how often you want to receive alert email notices. 
   4. Select either "HTML" or "Text" format for your email alerts.
   5. Select "Active" or "Inactive" as the status of your alert.
   6. Click "Save" to save the Author Citation alert.

You can find more information on how to create and manage citation alerts on the Scopus Support Center site.