Search results often include "Cited by ##" links below the citation, which leads you to other articles available to Google's robots. Full text may not be available via Google, but the library probably has it in a subscription database or print copy for you.

Track citations to your publications. Login to your Google account to enable access in Google Scholar

Find information about academic papers, authors, conferences, journals, and organizations from multiple sources.

Software that retrieves and analyzes academic citations. It uses Google Scholar and (since release 4.1) Microsoft Academic Search to obtain the raw citations, then analyzes these and presents a number of publication metrics.

PubReMiner will query PubMed with your specified search, get all abstracts and generate frequency tables. The first table will show you journals in which your query is published the most. The second table will show you the authors which are most active in the field of your query. The third table will show you words that have been used most in the title and abstract of the articles.

PLoS journals provide online usage data for published articles.

Eigenfactor (A measure of the journal's total importance to the scientific community) & Article Influence score (average influence, per article, of the papers in a journal)

Describes the 'h index' "An index to quantify an individual's scientific research output / J. E. Hirsch. PNAS November 15, 2005

A framework for tracking diffusion of research output and activities to locate indicators that demonstrate evidence of biomedical research impact. From Becker Medical Library, Washington University

Guidance for authors in support of their scholarship efforts. From the Becker Medical Library. Consult Matas librarians for local resource availability.

Publication mapping tool. This website offers a tool, the overlay maps of science, as a method to explore the degree of interdisciplinarity of a set of publications.

Applications based on the map equation: map and alluvial generator, hierarchical network navigator

Network Workbench: A Large-Scale Network Analysis, Modeling and Visualization Toolkit for Biomedical, Social Science and Physics Research.

A program for Windows, for analysis and visualization of large networks. Free for non-commercial use

Modular toolset designed for the study of science. It supports the temporal, geospatial, topical, and network analysis and visualization of scholarly datasets at the micro (individual), meso (local), and macro (global) levels.