tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62245661452296209012024-02-22T05:08:34.493+01:00Google Scholar DigestResearch on Google Scholar: Empirical evidencesJournalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17892375672806602258noreply@blogger.comBlogger72125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6224566145229620901.post-25336395024103710912018-05-24T12:59:00.000+02:002018-05-24T12:59:56.627+02:00Publications and impact of the fields of management, economics, and sociology in Spain and France: Google scholar versus Scopus<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: helvetica neue, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Gantman, E.R., Dabós, M.P. </b></span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: helvetica neue, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Research output and impact of the fields of management, economics, and sociology in spain and france: An analysis using google scholar and scopus. <i>Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. In press </i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The goal of this article is therefore to explore the usefulness of Google Scholar for the study of the social sciences in non‐Anglophone countries, particularly analyzing the research output and impact by language. In this regard, the research questions that we will address are the following: </span></div>
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<li><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What is the distribution of document types obtained from searching in Google Scholar? </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Does the impact in terms of citations received in Google Scholar differ across different types of scientific documents? </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How extended is the use of English in the social sciences in non‐Anglophone countries? </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Does this use differ according to type of document? </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Do scientific documents written in English have greater impact than those written in the vernacular language? </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How do the results obtained from GS compare with those from Scopus?</span></li>
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">We address these issues with case studies of two non‐Anglophone countries, Spain and France, in three scientific fields, economics, management and sociology.</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The total number of researchers selected for the study was 1,500 (each discipline has 250 individuals by country). We then collected the scientific output of the selected researchers from Google Scholar using the Publish or Perish 4.0 program.</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The research output of the individual authors was assigned to one of the three disciplines according to their academic department of affiliation or to the main disciplinary topic of their research laboratory.</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">For each document from the researchers’ production supplied by the Publish or Perish software, we collected the following information:</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">1.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Document type, which we classified into article, book, book chapter, PhD thesis, book review, congress presentation, or other (gray literature, working papers, etc.).</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">2.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Publication year.</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">3.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Publication language. In the case of Spain, we distinguished between Spanish or Castilian (the country's main language), dialect (category that includes the languages of some autonomous communities like Catalonia and the Basque country), English, and “others” as residual category. In the case of France, we distinguished between French, English, and “others” as residual category.</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">4.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Number of citations received.</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">We also searched the production of the 1,500 researchers in Scopus, collecting similar data for each document entry.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The results suggest that, because of a documentary coverage in many languages that is greater than traditional bibliographic databases, GS is a very useful tool for examining the social sciences in non‐Anglophone countries. Compared with Scopus, Google Scholar finds more than 5 documents per document found in Scopus; but these differences in coverage vary by discipline.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Google Scholar dataset shows that the most utilized form for communication of scientific research is the article in the three disciplines and both countries, although books and book chapters also have a relevant share of total output. In addition, our findings show the importance of the vernacular languages. However, in the French case, the use of English appears to be very extended in economics. Moreover, we have also found that Scopus coverage of French documents in sociology is high (72% of total documents), which counters the existence of an English‐bias of this database in this particular case.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The level of internationalization of research output in the disciplines considered appears as variable, with sociology as the one most focused on the vernacular language of each country. This confirms the importance of local sociologies and, consequently, the possible fragmentation of this discipline in different local traditions. In contrast, economics is the most internationalized discipline.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Regarding the impact received by articles, books, and book chapters, there is a predominance of books in terms of received citations for the three disciplines and both countries in Google Scholar. Finally, and except for the case of articles in French sociology and for books in France, our results show that publishing in English has a great impact in the disciplines studied. This suggests that, in certain social sciences as well as in particular forms of diffusion of academic production, scholars may grant more attention to sources written in their country's vernacular language. Further research is needed in order to understand why this occurs and why it happens in certain countries and not in others.. </span></div>
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Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17892375672806602258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6224566145229620901.post-91124768045587628612018-01-22T18:20:00.001+01:002018-01-22T18:20:36.389+01:00The field of climate impact on societies in the past from Web of Science and Google Scholar<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The purpose of this paper is to compare the content of Web of Science (WoS) and Google Scholar (GS) by searching the interdisciplinary field of climate and ancient societies. The authors aim at analyzing the retrieved documents by open availability, received citations, co-authors and type of publication</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The authors searched the services by a defined set of keyword. Data were retrieved and analyzed using a variety of bibliometric tools such as Publish or Perish, Sci2Tool and Gephi. In order to determine the proportion of open full texts based on the WoS result, the authors relocated the records in GS, using an off-campus internet connection.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The authors found that the top 1,000 downloadable and analyzable GS items matched poorly with the items retrieved by WoS. Based on this approach (subject searching), the services appeared complementary rather than similar. Even though the first search results differ considerably by service, almost each single WoS title could be located in GS. Based on GS’s full text recognition, the authors found 74 percent of WoS items openly available and the citation median of these was twice as high as for documents behind paywalls. </span><br />
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Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17892375672806602258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6224566145229620901.post-90532100699706823642018-01-15T20:35:00.004+01:002018-01-18T12:47:09.988+01:00Performance Behavior Patterns in Author-Level Metrics: A Disciplinary Comparison of Google Scholar Citations, ResearchGate, and ImpactStory<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Performance Behavior Patterns in Author-Level Metrics: A Disciplinary Comparison of Google Scholar Citations, ResearchGate, and ImpactStory</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics, 22 December 2017</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The main goal of this work is to verify the existence of diverse behavior patterns in academic production and impact, both among members of the same scientific community (inter-author variability) and for a single author (intra-author variability), as well as to find out whether this fact affects the correlation among author-level metrics (AutLMs) in disciplinary studies. </span><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">in order to answer the main goal mentioned above, we pose the following research questions:</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>RQ1: </b>Is it possible to detect different academic behavior patterns among authors working in the same discipline (inter-author variability) using the AutLMs available in online academic profile services?</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>RQ2:</b> Is it possible to detect different academic behavior patterns by the same author (intra-author variability) using the AutLMs available in online academic profile services?</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>RQ3:</b> If the two previous questions can be answered affirmatively, do these behaviors affect the correlations between AutLMs?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ttwo samples are examined: a general sample (members of a discipline, in this case Bibliometrics; n= 315 authors), and a specific sample (only one author; n = 119 publications). Four AutLMs (Total Citations, Recent Citations, Reads, and Online mentions) were extracted from three platforms (Google Scholar Citations, ResearchGate, and ImpactStory). </span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">T</span><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">he analysis of the general sample reveals the existence of different performance patterns, in the sense that there are groups of authors who perform prominently in some platforms, but exhibit a low impact in the others. The case study shows that the high performance in certain metrics and platforms is due to the coverage of document typologies, which is different in each platform (for example, Reads in working papers). </span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>The correlations (Spearman; α < 0.1) between the different metrics (Total Citations, Recent Citations, Reads, and Online mentions) </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As regards AutLMs, a non-linear distribution in the data extracted from the three platforms (Google Scholar Citations, ResearchGate, and ImpactStory) has been found. There are few authors with a high performance, and a long tail with moderate, low, or null performance. Moreover, the high performance authors are not the same across the three studied dimensions of impact (Citations, Reads, and Online mentions). The lack of correlation might be explained by the fact that each platform offers different documents, targeted to different audiences.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This fact has facilitated the identification of different patterns of online academic behavior in the studied platforms (RQ1). Some authors present a markedly formal performance (Citations, mainly to journal articles) while other authors stand out in Reads (both to articles and to other document typologies), or in Online mentions (mainly Articles). Combined patterns have also been found (high performance in Citations and Reads, and low in Online mentions). This issue evidences that the analysis of a single platform, not even considering of the demographic aspects related to the population of a discipline that is reflected, can mask the performance of an author who has particularly high or low values in any given platform.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This fact again brings us to the need not only of considering different online academic profile platforms (in order to capture different impact profiles) but also to categorize the type of impact according to the document typologies, because a general analysis of authors might mask their actual impact.</span><br />
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Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17892375672806602258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6224566145229620901.post-85091754622082126622017-12-28T12:43:00.002+01:002017-12-28T12:43:43.041+01:00Proceedings Scholar Metrics 2017: H Index of proceedings on Computer Science, Electrical & Electronic Engineering, and Communications according to Google Scholar Metrics (2012-2016)<div style="text-align: center;">
<b style="color: #660000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Emilio </b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Delgado López-Cózar, Enrique Orduña-Malea, <i>Proceedings Scholar Metrics 2017: H Index of proceedings on Computer Science, Electrical & Electronic Engi</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">PROCEEDINGS SCHOLAR METRICS is a ranking that displays proceedings (conferences, workshops, symposia, meetings) indexed in Google Scholar Metrics (GSM) on the areas of Computer Science, Electrical & Electronic Engineering, and Communications, which in this fourth edition corresponds to the period 2012-2016.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">It is a well-known fact that conference proceedings play a major role as a means of scientific communication in all areas concerning Computer Engineering, Electronics, and Communications. The rapid rate at which knowledge is generated in these fields required the creation of a more dynamic system to communicate and publish research results. Conferences have historically fulfilled this role. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The development of Google Scholar Metrics, launched on April 2012 with the goal of providing a ranking of scientific publications indexed on Google Scholar (journals, proceedings, repositories), provided that they had published at least 100 papers and received at least one citation in the last five years, has been a crucial step towards knowing the impact of conferences, which are so important in these areas.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Therefore, the system interface does not allow us to effectively determine which and how many conference proceedings GSM has indexed. In order to overcome this limitation, the objective of PROCEEDINGS SCHOLAR METRICS is to compile an inventory of all the conferences present in GSM concerning these fields of knowledge, and after that, rank them according to their scientific impact, as measured by the H index.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Proceedings concerning Computer Science (theoretical, information theory, artificial intelligence, evolutionary computation, fuzzy systems, human computer interaction, computer vision & pattern recognition, computer hardware design, computing systems, signal processing, computer networks & wireless communication, robotics, automation & control theory, software systems, computer security & cryptography, computer graphics, databases & information systems, data mining & analysis, multimedia, bioinformatics & computational biology, biomedical technology, medical informatics, computational linguistics, education technology), Electrical & Electronic Engineering and Communications (telecommunications, remote sensing, antennas, radar, microware).</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">In order to identify the proceedings we followed two different strategies:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">3.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>We carried out various searches using descriptive and pertinent keywords in order to locate the rest of relevant conferences. These searches took place on the second week of December, 2017.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The results of each search were downloaded (including the name of the conference, the h5-index, and the h5-median) and duplicates were removed. A manual check was carried out in order to filter out any irrelevant entries (journals, repositories, and conferences outside the scope of our study). A total of 1,918 conference proceedings were identified.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The proceedings are sorted by their H Index. In case of a tie, the discriminate value is the h5-median (the median number of citations for the articles that make up its h-index)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Martín-Martín, A., Ayllón, J. M., Orduña-Malea, E., Delgado López-Cózar, E. (2016). Proceedings Scholar Metrics: H Index of proceedings on Computer Science, Electrical & Electronic Engineering, and Communications according to Google Scholar Metrics (2011-2015). EC3 reports 19. Granada, 13th of December, 2016, </span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Available <a href="http://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.16076.41605">http://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.16076.41605</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Martín-Martín, A., Ayllón, J. M., Orduña-Malea, E., Delgado López-Cózar, E. (2015). Proceedings Scholar Metrics: H Index of proceedings on Computer Science, Electrical & Electronic Engineering, and Communications according to Google Scholar Metrics (2010-2014). EC3 reports 15. Granada, 14th of December, 2015. </span><br />
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Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17892375672806602258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6224566145229620901.post-87631146565173092442017-12-15T18:29:00.002+01:002017-12-21T19:46:20.359+01:00MADAP: A method for depicting academic disciplines through Google Scholar Citations<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This article describes a procedure to generate a snapshot of the structure of a specific scientific community and their outputs based on the information available in Google Scholar Citations. We call this method MADAP (Multifaceted Analysis of Disciplines through Academic Profiles). </span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The international community of researchers working in Bibliometrics, Scientometrics, Informetrics, Webometrics, and Altmetrics was selected as a case study. The records of the top 1,000 most cited documents by these authors were manually checked to fill any missing information and deduplicate fields like the journal names and book publishers. The results suggest that it is feasible to use Google Scholar Citations and the MADAP method to produce an accurate depiction of the community of researchers working in Bibliometrics (both specialist and occasional) and their publication habits (main publication venues such as journals and book publishers). </span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Additionaly, the wide document coverage of Google Scholar (especially books and book chapters) enables more comprehensive analyses of the documents published in a specific discipline than were previously possible with other citation indexes, finally shedding light on what until now had been a blind spot in most citation analyses</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Top 25 influential specialist/occasional authors in Bibliometrics according to Google Scholar Citations</span></b></div>
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Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17892375672806602258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6224566145229620901.post-87242808686404287022017-12-11T10:07:00.001+01:002017-12-11T10:08:46.877+01:00Visibility in Google scholar of 48 Institutional Repositories of Peruvian Universities<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This article analyzes level of metadata quality (MQ ratio) and level of academic visibility in Google Scholar (IGS ratio) associated with coverage of four types of documents (theses, articles, books, and conferences) in repositories of Peruvian universities. </span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This research is a cross-sectional descriptive and correlational study with intentional non-probabilistic sampling that analyzes 48 repositories from national (n = 10) and private (n = 38) universities integrated in the Peruvian National Digital Repository Alicia (alicia.concytec.gob.pe). </span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Regarding the MQ ratio, we found a median of 0.67 [RIC: 0.552–0.891] for national universities and a median of 0.65 [RIC: 0.407–0.838] for private universities (p = .542). Regarding the IGS ratio, we found a median of 0.32 [RIC: 0.241–0.596] for national universities and a median of 0.62 [RIC: 0.464–0.749] for private universities (p = .054). The p value in Spearman's rank correlation shows a moderate correlation (ρ = 0.594; p < .01) between MQ ratio and the thesis coverage indicator, and a low correlation (ρ = 0.157) between the index of document indexing in Google Scholar and the proportion of documents harvested in Alicia. </span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We conclude that the highest proportion of academic visibility is concentrated in private universities, and the metadata quality number of items integrated in Alicia favors public universities.</span><br />
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Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17892375672806602258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6224566145229620901.post-39500995752072494202017-12-07T18:35:00.001+01:002017-12-07T18:36:06.231+01:00Google Scholar as a source for scholarly evaluation: a bibliographic review of database errors<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The launch of Google Scholar back in 2004 meant a revolution not only in the scientific </span><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">information search market but also in research evaluation processes. Its dynamism, unparalleled coverage, and uncontrolled indexing make Google Scholar an unusual product, especially when compared to traditional bibliographic databases. Conceived primarily as a discovery tool for academic information, it presents a number of limitations as a bibliometric tool. The main objective of this chapter is to show how Google Scholar operates and how its core database may be used for bibliometric purposes. To do this, the general features of the search engine (in terms of document typologies, disciplines, and coverage) are analyzed. Lastly, several bibliometric tools based on Google Scholar data, both official (Google Scholar Metrics, Google Scholar Citations) and some developed by third parties (H Index Scholar, Publishers Scholar Metrics, Proceedings Scholar Metrics, Journal Scholar Metrics, Scholar Mirrors), as well as software to collect and process data from this source (Publish or Perish, Scholarometer), are introduced, aiming to illustrate the potential bibliometric uses of this source.</span></div>
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Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17892375672806602258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6224566145229620901.post-2299746803232216152017-11-02T13:28:00.002+01:002017-11-02T13:41:33.003+01:00Google Scholar: The big data bibliographic tool<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Google Scholar: The big data bibliographic tool</i>. </b></span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>In: Cantu-Ortiz, FJ. (ed.). Research Analytics: Boosting University Productivity and Competitiveness through Scientometrics. </b></span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>CRC Press (Taylor & Francis Group), 2017 p. 59-80 </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">information search market but also in research evaluation processes. Its dynamism, unparalleled coverage, and uncontrolled indexing make Google Scholar an unusual product, especially when compared to traditional bibliographic databases. </span><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Conceived primarily as a discovery tool for academic information, it presents a number of limitations as a bibliometric tool. </span><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The main objective of this chapter is to show how Google Scholar operates and how its core database may be used for bibliometric purposes. To do this, the general features of the search engine (in terms of document typologies, disciplines, and coverage) are analyzed. Lastly, several bibliometric tools based on Google Scholar data, both official (Google Scholar Metrics, Google Scholar Citations) and some developed by third parties (H Index Scholar, Publishers Scholar Metrics, Proceedings Scholar Metrics, Journal Scholar Metrics, Scholar Mirrors), as well as software to collect and process data from this source (Publish or Perish, Scholarometer), are introduced, aiming to illustrate the potential bibliometric uses of this source.</span></span></div>
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Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17892375672806602258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6224566145229620901.post-41480722988837065702017-10-10T13:37:00.001+02:002017-10-10T13:37:50.899+02:00Global mapping of artificial intelligence in Google and Google Scholar<div style="text-align: center;">
<b style="color: #660000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Omar M., Mehmood A., Choi G.S., Park, H.W. (2017).</b><br />
<b style="color: #660000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Global mapping of artificial intelligence in Google and Google Scholar. </b><br />
<b style="color: #660000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Scientometrics, in press.</b><br />
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Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17892375672806602258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6224566145229620901.post-34175858742763499542017-10-06T10:38:00.000+02:002017-10-06T10:38:39.834+02:00Evolution of profiles of Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas in Academia.edu, Google Scholar Citations and ResearchGate (2014-2015)<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Toward a homogenization of academic social sites: A longitudinal study of profiles in Academia.edu, Google Scholar Citations and ResearchGate</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The purpose of this paper is to analyze the distribution of profiles from academic social networking sites according to disciplines, academic statuses and gender, and detect possible biases with regard to the real staff distribution. In this way, it intends to know whether these academic places tend to become specialized sites or, on the contrary, there is a homogenization process.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">To this purpose, the evolution of profiles of one organization (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas) in three major academic social sites (Academia.edu, Google Scholar Citations and ResearchGate) through six quarterly samples since April 2014 to September 2015 are tracked.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Longitudinal results show important disciplinary biases but with strong increase of new profiles form different areas. They also suggest that these virtual spaces are gaining more stability and they tend toward a equilibrate environment.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">This is the first longitudinal study of profiles from three major academic social networking sites and it allows to shed light on the future of these platforms’ populations.</span></div>
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Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17892375672806602258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6224566145229620901.post-91543723937427807442017-10-03T11:51:00.002+02:002017-10-03T11:52:54.022+02:00The lost academic home: institutional affiliation links in Google Scholar Citations<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Google Scholar Citations (GSC) provides an institutional affiliation link which groups together authors who belong to the same institution. The purpose of this paper is to ascertain whether this feature is able to identify and normalize all the institutions entered by the authors, and whether it is able to assign all researchers to their own institution correctly.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Systematic queries to GSC’s internal search box were performed under two different forms (institution name and institutional e-mail web domain) in September 2015. The whole Spanish academic system (82 institutions) was used as a test. Additionally, specific searches to companies (Google) and world-class universities were performed to identify and classify potential errors in the functioning of the feature.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Even though the analyzed sample is good enough to empirically answer the research questions initially proposed, a more comprehensive study should be performed to calibrate the real volume of the errors.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The discovered affiliation link errors prevent institutions from being able to access the profiles of all their respective authors using the institutions lists offered by GSC. Additionally, it introduces a shortcoming in the navigation features of Google Scholar which may impair web user experience.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some institutions (mainly universities) are under-represented in the affiliation feature provided by GSC. This fact might jeopardize the visibility of institutions as well as the use of this feature in bibliometric or webometric analyses.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This work proves inconsistencies in the affiliation feature provided by GSC. A whole national university system is systematically analyzed and several queries have been used to reveal errors in its functioning. The completeness of the errors identified and the empirical data examined are the most exhaustive to date regarding this topic. Finally, some recommendations about how to correctly fill in the affiliation data (both for authors and institutions) and how to improve this feature are provided as well.</span></div>
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Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17892375672806602258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6224566145229620901.post-71609238445204743322017-09-27T20:35:00.000+02:002017-09-27T20:35:25.924+02:00Metric study of information literacy in latin america: from bibliometrics to altmetrics<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Estudio métrico de ALFIN en Iberoamérica: de la bibliometría a las altmetrics. </b></span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Revista Española de Documentación Científica,40(3): e180</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">This study identifies the presence, productivity and influence of Ibero-American authors that write about information literacy (InfoLit). Using bibliometric and altmetric indicators, it seeks to analyze the impact and subsequent use of their scholarly works on social and scientific platforms. Fifty-five authors with the highest productivity were identified, based on the results of bibliometric studies on InfoLit carried out on both an international and Ibero-American scale in searches of major databases as well as publications collected in a Latin American wiki. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Subsequently an analysis of bibliometric and altmetric indicators at the author and publication level was carried out, based on the results of searches on eight scientific platforms (Google Scholar, ResearchGate, Academia.edu, Mendeley, ORCID, IraLIS, E-LIS and EXIT), three social networks (Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn), and data provided by a commercial supplier (Altmetric.com). </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Overall we found a greater presence of authors in ResearchGate (58%), Academia.edu (51%) and Google Scholar (49%) as opposed to Mendeley (25%) and ORCID (18%). Furthermore, as to social platforms, the greatest potential influence lies with Facebook, due to its high number of followers ( / top 10 authors). In addition, an analysis with the Spearman rho statistic, shows among some sources and platforms, a low correlation between the number of citations in Google Scholar and readings in Mendeley (r = 382) and low negative for mentions in blogs (r = 0,-237), Google+ (r = 0, -214) and Twitter (r = 0, -183). In conclusion, both the productivity and the impact-visibility center on specific authors writing about InfoLit, and various measurement resources show that for these authors there is a positive two-way impact from bibliometric to altmetric and vice versa</span></div>
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Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17892375672806602258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6224566145229620901.post-31044102351956898702017-09-27T13:55:00.001+02:002017-09-27T13:55:59.518+02:00Comparing the number of citations of Google Scholar and Researchgate in a sample of Colombian researchers<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><b>Visibilidad de los investigadores colombianos según sus indicadores en </b></span><b style="color: #660000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Google Scholar y ResearchGate. Diferencias y similitudes con la clasificación </b><b style="color: #660000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">oficial del sistema nacional de ciencia -COLCIENCIAS. </b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The aim of this study is to contextualize the results obtained regarding the classification of researchers who work in Colombian institutions according to their public Google Scholar - GSC citation profiles (1390 with an H index equal or higher than 5). </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To this end, the study compares its findings with the data obtained from the collection of Colombian authors on a social network named ResearchGate - RG and the local information provided by Colciencias, which is the Colombian agency that publishes researcher classification from a platform named ScienTI. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Findings revealed significant discrepancies between GSC and RG findings regarding the four classification categories Colciencias provided. This suggests that Colciencias must reconsider its assessment criteria including new sources and indicators. Considering that the two sources (GSC, RG) and the (h index, RG-Index) indicators behave differently regarding disciplines, Colciencias must also be careful with disciplinary assignments adopting International classifications and developing discipline </span><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">related indicators. Colombian academic and research organizations should become more active in recognizing the potential and importance of Internet platforms to visibilize their research work and increase its impact (Ciencia 2.0)</span></div>
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Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17892375672806602258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6224566145229620901.post-14151268511402075312017-09-25T12:25:00.002+02:002017-09-27T11:46:48.877+02:00International Survey of Research University Faculty: Use of Bibliometric Ratings, Identifiers & Indicators<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>International Survey of Research University Faculty: Use of Bibliometric Ratings, Identifiers & Indicators</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This study presents data from 325 faculty of major universities in the USA, Canada, the UK, Ireland and Australia about how they view bibliometric indicators such as the h-index, how trustworthy they are believed to be and how often they are checked or calculated.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">THE QUESTIONNAIRE </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATIONS OF THE SURVEY PARTICIPANTS </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Characteristics of the Sample </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">SUMMARY OF MAIN FINDINGS </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Personal Awareness of the h-index </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Frequency of Checking the H-Index </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Use of Journal Impact Factor Ratings and Rankings When Deciding on Publication Venue </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ease of Finding Journal Impact Factors </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Views on Journal Impact Factor Trustworthiness </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Use of Orchid ID </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Use of the International Standard Number Identifier </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Use of arXiv </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Use of Web of Science </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Use of Google Scholar </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Use of JSTORE </span><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">[sic]</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Use of Journal Citation </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Use of Scimago, bepress and SciVal </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The study presents data on the use of particular tools and indicators, giving specific data for all of the following: Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar, ORCHID ID, Thomson-Reuters Research ID, Scimago, bepress, SciVal, JSTOR, International, SciFinder, arXiv and CrossRef, among others.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Data in the report is broken out by tenure status, gender, age, semester teaching load, academic field, academic title, and political views of the survey participant, as well as by the country or origin, public/private status and world ranking of the universities of the survey participants.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Just a few of this 113-page report’s many findings are that:</span></div>
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<li><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Google Scholar was the most frequently used tool for bibliometrics, with 85% of the respondents reporting its use. All faculty age 30 or under reported using Google Scholar with this percentage declining to 77% of faculty 60 years and over.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">SciFinder use was reported by 7% of respondents, especially at private institutions (10%), by faculty 30 years or younger (22%), </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">76% of faculty in the UK/Ireland had an ORCHID ID vs. only 35% in the USA.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Political conservatives are more likely than those with more centrist or left-wing views to feel that bibliometric measures are trustworthy.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Faculty in literature and languages found the most difficulty in finding journal impact factor data for use in their career planning</span></li>
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Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17892375672806602258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6224566145229620901.post-19831968818752162052017-09-19T13:54:00.000+02:002017-09-19T13:56:03.450+02:00Tracking Scholarly Publishing of Hospitals Using MEDLINE, Scopus, WoS and Google Scholar<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #0000ee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Tracking Scholarly Publishing of Hospitals Using MEDLINE, Scopus, WoS and Google Scholar. </b></span><br />
<span style="color: #0000ee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Journal of Hospital Librarianship</i>, 17(3), 209-216.</b></span><b style="color: #0000ee; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"> </b><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Scientific literature focuses on facilitating communication among researchers. Many studies have been conducted to compare effectiveness, coverage, and performance among databases available to researchers and/or librarians. In this study, the authors compared MEDLINE/PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science (WoS), and Google Scholar performance regarding searching for scholarly publishing of institutions such as hospitals. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Query searches of scholarly publications of specific hospital personnel run and articles results were compared. The MEDLINE/PubMed database, Scopus and Web of Science offer the option </span><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to search by affiliation. Affiliations in Google Scholar can be searched by </span><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">running a query as an exact phrase. Queries were phrased in a way that was </span><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">suitable for each source as well as to enable comparison. To facilitate comparison </span><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">we limited research to 2016. Data were collected at the end of August 2016.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">An affiliation-based search could be better served if searchers use multiple </span><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">sources in combination. In this study, a comparison of bibliographic database </span><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">results gave precedence to MEDLINE/PubMed. Between free available </span><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">resources MEDLINE/PubMed and Google Scholar, MEDLINE/PubMed provided </span><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">better results also.</span></div>
<br />Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17892375672806602258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6224566145229620901.post-41264908709912154602017-09-15T12:57:00.000+02:002017-09-15T12:57:39.823+02:00Is Google Scholar useful for the evaluation of Chinese journals?<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #0000ee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><u>Zhang, Y., Lun, H., & Yang, Z. (2017)</u></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0000ee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><u>iConference 2017 Proceedings (pp. 241–261). https://doi.org/10.9776/17025</u></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This study aims to explore how useful Google Scholar is for the evaluation of non-English journals with the case of Chinese journals. Based on a sample of 150 Chinese journals across two disciplines (Library and Information Science, Metallurgical Engineering & Technology), it provides a comparison between Google Scholar and Chongqing VIP, which is an important Chinese citation database, from three aspects: resource coverage, journal ranking and citation data. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Results indicate that Google Scholar is equipped with sufficient resources and citation data for the evaluation of Chinese journals. However, the Chinese journal ranking reported by Google Scholar Metrics is not developed enough. But Google Scholar is able to be an alternative source of citation data instead of Chinese citation databases. The Average Citation is a useful metric in the evaluation of Chinese journals with data from Google Scholar to provide a comprehensive reflection of journals’ impact. Overall, Google Scholar is useful and worthy of attention when evaluating Chinese journals.</span></div>
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Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17892375672806602258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6224566145229620901.post-10120485951758054792017-07-19T18:46:00.001+02:002017-07-19T18:46:29.912+02:00Google Scholar Citations the system that covers more publications by an author: The cases of B Cronin and WG Stock<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><u><a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-017-2416-9">Dorsch, I. (2017)</a></u></b></span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWgi1KmxKHUNGcPuNC7nBX9ERDnJECCojGc6A1cubm4AD9ZZigyA6WUkUIX5VU2BMy4BJ3aSqL9fQdnDQMZ_E-QvtVF7szvDum0HwabP2W7ST-uVQG_71WJR__vHyEJwD32KnQujU57KmF/s1600/dorch+3.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="577" data-original-width="378" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWgi1KmxKHUNGcPuNC7nBX9ERDnJECCojGc6A1cubm4AD9ZZigyA6WUkUIX5VU2BMy4BJ3aSqL9fQdnDQMZ_E-QvtVF7szvDum0HwabP2W7ST-uVQG_71WJR__vHyEJwD32KnQujU57KmF/s320/dorch+3.JPG" width="209" /></a><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Publication hit lists of authors, institutes, scientific disciplines etc. within scientific databases like Web of Science or Scopus are often used as a basis for scientometric analyses and evaluations of these authors, institutes etc. However, such information services do not necessarily cover all publications of an author. The purpose of this article is to introduce a re-interpreted scientometric indicator called ‘‘visibility,’’ which is the share of the number of an author’s publications on a certain information service relative to the author’s entire oeuvre based upon his/her probably complete personal publication list. To demonstrate how the indicator works, scientific publications (from 2001 to 2015) of the information scientists Blaise Cronin (N = 167) and Wolfgang G. Stock (N = 152) were collected and compared with their publication counts in the scientific information services ACM, ECONIS, Google Scholar, IEEE Xplore, Infodata eDepot, LISTA, Scopus, and Web of Science, as well as the social media services Mendeley and ResearchGate. For almost all information services, the visibility amounts to less than 50%. The introduced indicator represents a more realistic view of an author’s visibility in databases than the currently applied absolute number of hits in those databases.</span><br />
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Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17892375672806602258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6224566145229620901.post-23422970864276377792017-07-18T19:46:00.000+02:002017-07-19T18:38:21.185+02:00 Scientific information discovery: Still a mission of the academic library? Google & Google Scholar empire<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><u>El profesional de la información, 26 (3): 464-479</u></b></span><br />
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Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17892375672806602258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6224566145229620901.post-78158547687555150092017-07-17T20:50:00.000+02:002017-07-18T18:07:41.414+02:00An evidence-based review of academic web search engines (Google Books, Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic), 2014-2016: Implications for librarians’ practice and research agenda<div style="text-align: center;">
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Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17892375672806602258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6224566145229620901.post-38072879811130085162017-07-14T14:18:00.002+02:002017-07-14T14:19:27.205+02:00Suitability of Google Scholar as a source of scientific information and as a source of data for scientific evaluation. Review of the Literature<div style="text-align: center;">
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Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17892375672806602258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6224566145229620901.post-67921786398838934232017-07-04T11:59:00.000+02:002017-07-04T13:01:49.769+02:00Faculty Use of Author Identifiers and Researcher Networking Tools<div style="text-align: center;">
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Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17892375672806602258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6224566145229620901.post-60758461306462871982017-06-28T18:42:00.002+02:002017-07-03T19:53:01.893+02:00Classic papers: déja vu, a step further in the bibliometric exploitation of Google Scholar<div style="text-align: center;">
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Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17892375672806602258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6224566145229620901.post-24814022736778653962017-06-20T09:24:00.000+02:002017-06-20T09:25:37.075+02:00A Novel Improvement to Google Scholar Ranking Algorithms Through Broad Topic Search<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Google Scholar uses ranking algorithms to find the most relevant academic research possible. However, its algorithms use an exact keyword match and citation count to sort its results. This paper presents a novel improvement to Google Scholar algorithms by aggregating multiple synonymous searches into one set of results, offsetting the necessity to guess all potential search phrases for a research topic. This design science research method uses a broad topic analysis that examines search queries, finds synonymous phrases, and combines all keyword searches into one set of results based on current Google Scholar citation count algorithms. To support and evaluate this research-in-progress, several users will compare multiple niche search queries against old and new algorithms. The expectation of this design is to introduce modern algorithm techniques to academic search engines, resulting in greater quality, discoverability, and core topic diversity of published research.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> engines: Google and Bing, have high level of agreement in their top search results.Various works have tried to predict coverage of academic search engines. However to the best of our knowledge, there is no existing work that systematically studies overlap in the search results of academic search engines.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Methods</b><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">: </span></span><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We collected over 2300 query terms from 2012 ACM Computing Classification System. We sent these 2500 queries to all four selected academic search </span>engines. For each academic search engines, we looked at top eight results as each academic search engines returns at least eight results on the first page. We computed similarity between any two sets using the Jaccard similarity. </span></div>
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Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17892375672806602258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6224566145229620901.post-48954995489405230882017-03-06T14:36:00.002+01:002017-03-06T18:22:06.166+01:00Use of Google Scholar public profiles in orthopedics: Rate of growth and changing international patterns<div style="text-align: center;">
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a 12-month period and to investigate global patterns. </span><b style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Methods</b><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">: Data was prospectively acquired from June 2013 to June
2014. Google Scholar queries specific to orthopedic surgery were performed at 90-day intervals. Demographic aspects of
each user were also compiled, including gender, current location, and primary interests. To determine differences
between the growth of Google Scholar public profile registrations and citation counts, as well as differences in growth in
different regions, repeated measures of analysis of variance (RMANOVA) were used. </span></span></div>
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statistically significant differences (p ¼ 0.0001) for regional growth. The largest growth was observed in the United
Kingdom (p ¼ 0.009, 289%), followed by the Asia-Pacific region (p ¼ 0.004, 177%) and “Other” (p ¼ 0.006, 172%). The
mean growth per 90-day interval is 19.9% (p ¼ 0.003) and the mean 12-month growth is 107% (p ¼ 0.05). Statistically
significant differences between gender (male vs. female) and basic and clinical sciences (w2 ¼ 22.4, p ¼ 0.0001) were
observed. Conclusion: This study suggests an exponential growth in the number of authors in the field of orthopedic
surgery creating a Google Scholar public profile, and at the current rate participation doubles every 10.6 months.</span></div>
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