If you have already found relevant materials, the citations in those sources are a great way to expand your bibliography. Journal abbreviations are often used in citations and can be misleading. A complete alphabetical list of journal abbreviations and their corresponding titles can be found at: Science and Engineering Journal Abbreviations.
The primary source for citation searching in the sciences is ISI's Science Citation Index Expanded, part of the Web of Science. You can search for articles themselves, citations of an article, or citations of a specific author. Though not an absolute certainty, the number of citations of a given article can help indicate how influential it has been. The articles that cite the original article could also be useful sources.
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