Scholarly articles have both a Times Cited and a Cited Reference number associated with them.
Times Cited is the number of later research articles that have used the original article as a source of information. This shows you the new knowledge has been built using your initial research article. Some articles get cited many times. Some never get cited, or are cited only a few times.
Cited References is the number of research articles appearing in its own reference list. This shows you the earlier articles that informed the research of your initial article.
Web of Science, Scopus, Pubmed, and Google Scholar show you this information for their articles.
When you are exploring relationships among research articles and their references or later citing articles, be certain to read the full text of those papers to grasp the nuances of how the information has been used.