Imagine you are reading a seminal paper treating a topic you are very interested in. More often than not, this paper is not from this year or the previous year. Often it is a decade old or even much older. How do you easily find more recent work in the same area?
The traditional way consists in searching for similar keywords in some database. As an alternative, you could use WebOfScience or WebOfKnowledge. When you type https://www.webofscience.com/wos/woscc/basic-search or simply webOfKnowledge.com into a browser (and you are within the university net), you would get a screen that allows you to search for whatever you are interested in.
Let us search for ‘self knowledge’. Then you get a list of more than 100.000 references as shown below.
Using the first entry as example, the article is from January 2013. The entry also shows that there are 8 citations to this work. As citations usually occur after a paper is published, this allows you to look “into the future”. If we take “Self-deception and self-knowledge” as the article you are interested in, clicking on “8 citations” gives you references that are more recent, i.e. you found more recent work that was undertaken in this field. Following this approach, you can be sure to be at the frontier of the field you are interested in.