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I've been looking recently at some papers in physics, from journals that are not listed in mathscinet. Is there is a similar database for physics, with reviews and citation links? I'd like to see where the papers I'm currently looking at have been referenced, in order to follow the subject forward in time.

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    $\begingroup$ Not exactly the same, but for high-energy physics there is spires: slac.stanford.edu/spires $\endgroup$
    – JRG
    Commented Oct 31, 2010 at 21:10
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    $\begingroup$ Google Scholar gives you a "cited by" link. $\endgroup$
    – S. Carnahan ♦
    Commented Oct 31, 2010 at 21:25
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    $\begingroup$ by the way... is there an analogue of MO for physics? $\endgroup$
    – Bruno Martelli
    Commented Oct 31, 2010 at 21:37
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    $\begingroup$ Bruno: physicsoverflow.com exists but is somewhat dormant. It looks like the administrator hasn't visited in about 3 months. $\endgroup$
    – S. Carnahan ♦
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    $\begingroup$ @Bruno Martelli: There's physicsoverflow.com but I wouldn't say it's very active. There's also a proposal for Physics SE-2.0 area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/1908/… which is currently in a pre-beta mode. $\endgroup$
    – Andrey Rekalo
    Commented Oct 31, 2010 at 22:05

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In addition to freely available Google Scholar and SPIRES, and subscription-based Web of Science and Scopus, there is a free NASA Astrophysics Data Systems database which, contrary to its title, appears to have broader scope than SPIRES, at least as far as mathematical physics is concerned; it provides abstracts (but not reviews), citations, and, for some older papers, their full-text scanned versions. Now it is sort of integrated with arXiv.org: when looking at the abstract of any arXiv preprint, you see the link to its citations and references at NASA ADS under References & Citations. This database has, inter alia, a specialized physics and geophysics search engine.

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  • $\begingroup$ I was going to chime in with xxx.lanl.gov Which I haven't visited in over a decade. I was surprised to find that it has since turned into arxiv.org, which I have been to more recently, but never bother to learn it's back story. $\endgroup$
    – Mark
    Commented Nov 1, 2010 at 2:49

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