The current study presents an analysis of the 16972 citations in the Social Work of 79 ETDs available at TISS, Mumbai @IR during the period 2001 to 2019. The EDTs of Social Work were analyzed to understand how the references sources have changed, once the internet reduced the search cost and efforts for citing the reference sources with the advent of latest tools availability. The findings reveal a striking contrast in terms of sources of references used by the students’ pre and post internet era. The first ranking journal ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ has been cited 450 times.