ISI Web of Science provides access to current and retrospective multidisciplinary information from over 10,000 high impact research journals from around the world and includes 3 citation databases that contain the references cited by the authors of the journal articles these databases cover:

Science Citation Index Expanded - a multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the sciences, fully indexing over 7,100 major journals across 150 scientific disciplines and providing access to current information and retrospective data from 1900 to present.

Social Sciences Citation Index - a multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the social sciences, fully indexing approximately 2,100 journals across 50 social sciences disciplines, and indexing individually selected, relevant items from over 3,500 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals. Provides access to current information and retrospective data from 1975 forward.

Arts & Humanities Citation Index - a multidisciplinary index covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities, fully covering approximately 1,200 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, and indexing individually selected, relevant items from over 6,000 major science and social science journals. Provides access to current information and retrospective data from 1975 forward.

You can use these cited references as search terms. A cited reference search enables you to use a published work that you know to find other, later works that cite it.

In addition to cited reference searching, you can search these databases by topic, author, source title, address, and more.