Is there a phrase or word for an "inverse" bibliography?

Solution 1:

The term commonly used for this in journals or journal sites is:

citation 5. the act of citing or quoting a reference to an authority or a precedent.

The list of 'citations' of a paper or article is not the bibliography or references but rather the set of documents that refer to the article in question.

Though 'citation' sounds just like 'entries in a bibliography', the existence of bibliography leads one to infer that 'citations' are entries of the other direction, namely references to the article in question.

Some sites say

Cited By

to make this explicit.

Note that it is usually the publishing system that generates a 'cited by' section outside of a document. Original articles do not have a 'cited by' section within since under normal circumstances you can't refer to an article that hasn't been published yet.

Solution 2:

I can think of no common phrase for such a list.

As a placeholder for somebody else who does know of such a phrase, and is able to provide it, I offer the following advice.


Do not make up a phrase that is ambiguous. Instead, use unambiguous language.

There is nothing wrong with using the following as a section heading:

  • A List of Works That Reference This Document

It's not conventional. However, in the absence of convention, it's better to say something clearly in more words than concisely in words that can be misunderstood.