Google Scholar as a data source for research assessment
Authors : Emilio Delgado López-Cózar, Enrique Orduna-Malea, Alberto Martín-Martín The launch of Google Scholar (GS) marked the beginning of a revolution in the ...
Étiquette : Google Scholar
The counting house: measuring those who count. Presence of Bibliometrics, Scientometrics, Informetrics, Webometrics and Altmetrics in the Google Scholar Citations, ResearcherID, ResearchGate, Mendeley & Twitter
Authors : Alberto Martin-Martin, Enrique Orduna-Malea, Juan M. Ayllon, Emilio Delgado Lopez-Cozar Following in the footsteps of the model of scientific communic...
‘Just Google it’ – the scope of freely available information sources for doctoral thesis writing
Authors : Vincas Grigas, Simona Juzėnienė, Jonė Veličkaitė Introduction Recent developments in the field of scientific information resource provision lead us to...
Back to the past: on the shoulders of an academic search engine giant
A study released by the Google Scholar team found an apparently increasing fraction of citations to old articles from studies published in the last 24 years (19...
The application of bibliometrics to research evaluation in the humanities and social sciences: an exploratory study using normalized Google Scholar data for the publications of a research institute
In the humanities and social sciences, bibliometric methods for the assessment of research performance are (so far) less common. The current study takes a concr...
The dark side of Open Access in Google and Google Scholar: the case of Latin-American repositories
Since repositories are a key tool in making scholarly knowledge open access, determining their presence and impact on the Web is essential, particularly in Goog...
Google Scholar as a tool for discovering journal…
Google Scholar as a tool for discovering journal articles in library and information science : « Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to measure the coverage o...