Citations of a particular article are other articles, books or papers that refer to that article. A citation acknowledges the relevance of other articles and books in that topic of discussion. The number of citations of a paper is an indicator of the impact of the paper. The number of citations of the papers written by an author or published in a journal is an indicator of the quality of the researcher/journal in research. Currently, there are many existing software that provide information about the citations of papers. But the required information is not available in an organised manner. ResCite overcomes this shortcoming by providing results in an organised way – sorted by the number of citations or by date, along with providing other relevant features.

Given the name of the author/journal, the software gives all corresponding papers sorted by number of citations or by date. The search can also be done for any user- given year range. The software displays the h-index, i-index of the author/journal and statistics like the total number of citations and number of citations per paper. For any paper, the software also shows the list of citations to the paper.