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An article may be recent enough that it has not yet been cited by others.  However, the article will include, as scholarly articles do, a list of references.  Each reference can be searched to determine the number of times a particular reference has been cited.
 
This can be useful information.  Even if you don’t find a particular article to be helpful, you may discover gold by mining the article’s list of references.

TIP: Mine the reference list

For example …

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A.S. Ogunlaja, E.C. Hosten and Z.R. Tshentu, 172
S. Afr. J. Chem., 2015, 68, 172–180
The Oxidation of Dibenzothiophene using Oxidovanadium(IV)-containing Nanofibres as Catalyst
Adeniyi S. Ogunlaja*, Eric C. Hosten and Zenixole R. Tshentu*
Department of Chemistry, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth, 6031, South Africa.
ABSTRACT
Polyvinylbenzylchloride nanofibres were fabricated by the electrospinning technique and subsequently functionalized with a tetradentate ligand, 2,2’-(1E,1’E)-(1,2-phenylenebis(azan-1-yl-1-ylidene))bis(methan-1-yl-1-ylidene)bis(4-aminophenol). VO2+ was then incorporated into the nanofibres to produce the catalyst VO-fibres. Microanalysis, TG and FT-IR were used for the characterization of VO-fibre, and EPR also confirmed the presence of oxidovanadium(IV) within the nanofibres. Oxidation of dibenzothiophene (DBT) was investigated by varying the catalyst amount, substrate amount, oxidant and temperature, and the progress of oxidation was followed with a gas chromatograph fitted with a flame ionization detector.Anincrease in the amount of oxidant caused an increase in the amount of dibenzothiophene sulfone (DBTO2), while a decrease in the quantity of dibenzothiophene resulted in an increase in the overall yield of dibenzothiophene sulfone under a constant temperature and oxidant (H2O2) concentration. Dibenzothiophene sulfone was confirmed as the oxidation product through 1H-NMRspectroscopy and single crystal X-ray diffraction. 
Free Full Text Source:  http://www.scielo.org.za/pdf/sajc/v68/24.pdf
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Peruse the article’s list of references, then Google® the titles, and you will find a number of them that have been cited a numerously, making them candidates for further research.  Here are two references from our sample …

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Reactivities in deep catalytic hydrodesulfurization: challenges, opportunities, and the importance of 4-methyldibenzothiophene and 4, 6-dimethyldibenzothiophene
BC Gates, H Topsøe - Polyhedron, 1997 - Elsevier
The organosulfur compounds present in fossil fuels vary widely in their reactivities in catalytic hydrodesulfurization. In naphtha, thiophene is so much less reactive than the thiols, sulfides, and disulfides that the latter can be considered to be virtually infinitely reactive in ...
Cited by 243
Source: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277538797000740
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Hydrodesulfurization reactivities of various sulfur compounds in vacuum gas oil
X Ma, K Sakanishi, I Mochida - Industrial & engineering chemistry …, 1996 - ACS Publications
The hydrodesulfurization (HDS) of a vacuum gas oil (VGO) was performed at 360° C (6.9 MPa) over a commercial NiMo catalyst to examine the HDS reactivities of various sulfur compounds which exist in the VGO by means of quantitative pseudo-first-order kinetic  ...
Cited by 118
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Free Full Text Source:  http://research.che.tamu.edu/groups/Seminario/Special%20Assigment/Hydrodesulfurization%20Reactivities%20of%20Various%20Sulfur%20Compounds.pdf
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