Sometimes no one (especially if it was published very recently)...sometimes a few...sometimes several...and if a researcher wrote what is know as a 'landmark' article - a classic that helped start a whole new line of inquiry in a discipline...many, many researchers who came later may have cited them.

Needless to say, the latter case is an example of how having many people citing a researcher can be a measure of their impact in that field.

If you've found an article, and want to know who (if any) have cited it, here are several ways to do it:

• Our OVID Nursing Collection search lets you check results for citations by others. (Find Citing Articles)
• PubMed has (Cited by in PubMedCentral) in its search results
• Our JSTOR database has (Citation Locator) (Items Citing this Item) in its search results
• Google Scholar has (Cited by) in its search results
• The ResearchRabbit ai Citation tracking web tool lets you see an article's references, and any later articles who cited it

1. Take a good article you already found
2. Search for any other articles by that same author
   1. The database you are in may have a feature that allows you to do this
   2. Or just search for articles by using the author's name (use the 'author' choice in the field search menu to the right of the search box)
      1. Caution: Make sure you put the author's whole name if you can (not just last name or just last with initials) to try to avoid getting results from other authors with the same last name
      2. You may have to try typing the author's name family name first, but also search after typing the name in the usual first name - last name order
3. Now, examine the References / Works Cited / Bibliography at the end of that good article for any more relevant stuff the author had cited
4. Now, go to Google Scholar
   1. Type the complete title of that first, good article, with double quotes ( " ) at each end - a type of 'phrase search' and run that
   2. Make sure that good article is there in the results listing
   3. Click on the 'Cited By' link just below that good article
   4. Go and look at the articles who cited that first, good article, and see if any of those may be useful

This technique can lead you to many more useful articles....