To know the quality of an article according to the number of authors who have referred to it or to find the citation counts to your own articles, you can use the tools listed on the right to do a "citation analysis".
To navigate the available literature related to your topic, you need to start with a relevant article or author, then go backward or forward and ask yourself:
What sources does my article/book cite?
Which later articles or books cited the article I have found?
Google Scholar
EBSCOhost Research Databases
Locate Cited References link at the top of the EBSCOhost screen, enter search term(s) in the author, title, source, year or all fields to display a list of citation records for the search terms you entered.