Using google scholar for metrics
- 1. Google Scholar for Metrics Diane Clark & Christina Hwang October 7, 2015
- 2. Our Session Description Google Scholar is a popular tool for monitoring how your publications are cited. Join us for a workshop introducing Google Scholars advantages (e.g., ease of use) and limitations (e.g., transparency). Set up your Google Scholar researcher profile, discovering your h-index in the process, in a few minutes. Learn how to set up a Google Alert, another tool that can provide a view on your impact.
- 3. Outline Google Scholar Advantages & Limitations Set up your Google Scholar Profile Google Alert and other settings
- 4. The search engine functionality and human search patterns lead us to believe, sometimes, that what you see in the search engine's results page is all that really exists (Ordu単a-Malea et al., 2014)
- 5. 170 - 175 mil 57 mil 53 mil Orduna-Malea et al 2015 Does Size Matter?
- 6. Google Scholar - Advantages & Disadvantages Pro coverage getting better use with Publish or Perish for best results promote hidden gems repositories e.g. Arxiv, SSRN, NBER and RePEC, ERA (UAs institutional repository) retrieves open databases e.g. PubMed institution affiliation search (new) Con coverage data quality no connection to ORCID not all publisher content transparency
- 7. List of cited by Conference proceeding Citeseer - scientific literature digital library & search engine No link to Scopus
- 8. Where cited by (Times Cited) results are retrieved
- 9. 59 Cited by - information not available in Google Scholar Journals
- 10. Google Scholar v Web of Science / Scopus Architecture and technology Policy and management (business) Economics Engineering Computer Science Chemistry Applied science Biomedicine Economics Pharmacology Physics Cell Biology
- 13. Conference proceeding Uploading Your Citations to Your CCV
- 15. Google Alert and Other Settings Google Alert - email alerts Journal ranking Ualberta Libraries linking Reference Manager / CCV / ORCID exporting
- 16. Other Options for Managing Citations
- 17. References Harzing, A.W. Alakangas, S. (2015) Citation metrics versus peer review: a longitudinal comparison of Google Scholar, Scopus and Web of Science citation data across disciplines, symposium contribution at the 72nd Academy of Management annual meeting, August 7-11, in Vancouver, Canada. Harzing, A.W. (2014) A longitudinal study of Google Scholar coverage between 2012 and 2013,Scientometrics, vol. 98, no. 1, pp. 565-575. Lis辿e, C., Larivi竪re, V., Archambault, E. (2008). Conference Proceedings as a Source of Scientific Information: A Bibliometric Analysis. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 59(11):17761784. Mart鱈n-Mart鱈n, Ordu単a-Malea, Ayll坦n, L坦pez-C坦zar (2014). Does Google Scholar contain all highly cited documents (1950- 2013)?. arXiv Ordu単a-Malea, E.; Ayll坦n, J.M.; Mart鱈n-Mart鱈n, A.; Delgado L坦pez-C坦zar, E. (2015). Improvements in Google Scholar Citations are for the summer: Creating an institutional affiliation linking feature. Granada: EC3 Reports, 14. Ordu単a-Malea, Ayll坦n, Mart鱈n-Mart鱈n, Delgado L坦pez-C坦zar (2015). Methods for estimating the size of Google Scholar. Scientometrics