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Ever wanted to know what areas of science an article has influenced? Google Scholar now allows users to do just that. To trace an article's impact follow these steps:
- Find the specific article within Google Scholar.
- Click on the "Cited by" link underneath the article citation. This brings up a list of all articles that cited the original article.
- Check the box by "Search within articles citing …" located just below the search box.
- Enter a keyword.
A new set of results containing the works citing the original article that also include contain the search term will appear. The number and type of articles enables one to discern the impact the original article has had on researchers working in a particular field. For instance, using the paper: Solomon, S.; Garcia, R.R.; Rowland, F.S.; et al. On the Depletion of Antarctic Ozone, Nature, 198, 321, 755-758, we may wish to discover the impact the article has had on researchers studying climate change.

Click the "Cited by 535" link (circled in red above) to bring up a list of the 535 items that cited this article (below). Check the box by "Search within articles citing Solomon: On the depletion of Antarctic ozone," and enter "climate change" in the search box. Put this phrase in quotes.

The 85 results of this search are items that cite "On the depletion of Antarctic ozone" that also contain the phrase "climate change," thus giving us an idea as to the article's impact on works related to the field of climate change (below). Keywords may be as specific or general as needed. For more information on this feature see: http://googlescholar.blogspot.com/2010/07/search-within-citing-articles.html
