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Citation Chasing Research Strategy

How to use Citation Chasing as a key strategy for finding scholarly literature on a topic

Creating an Alert - Tracking New Articles and Books in Your Field

Search Alerts are a time saver for keeping up to date on what's happening in your field!

Instead of performing the same database search again and again to determine if any new articles have been published on your topic, setting up alerts will get new articles matching your search parameters emailed to you.

Professional Associations are a way to get involved and learn about new trends and scholarship in the field!

Creating a Search Alert in Google Scholar

To create an alert in Google Scholar:

Step 1: Create a search for keywords/concepts that you would like to receive alerts about (TIP: Be specific! The more general your search terms, the larger number of alerts you will receive)

Step 2: On the search results page, click: Create Alert on the bottom left side of the screen

Google Scholar search results for the concepts: counseling AND "mental health equity" AND trauma

Step 3: On the Create Alerts page, verify your information and click: Create Alert

To unsubscribe to alerts, click on the link to cancel the alert at the bottom of every notification email.