Citation Event

A citation event is an action that uses the citation data in Web of Science Core Collection. A citation event is recorded when a user clicks one of the following buttons or links:

• Search on the Cited Reference Selection page
• Lookup on the Cited Reference Lookup page
• Related Records on the Full Record page
• Times Cited on the Full Record page
• Cited References on the Full Record page
• Citation Report on the Summary page

In Web of Science Core Collection, certain citation events count twice: once as a citation event and once as a query. For example, a cited reference search counts as a citation event and as a query.