Comparing Downloads, Mendeley Readership and Google Scholar Citations as Indicators of Article Performance

Mining Google Scholar Citations: An Exploratory Study

The official launch of Google Scholar Citations in 2011 opens a new horizon for analyzing the citations of individual researchers with unprecedented convenience and accuracy. This paper presents one of the first exploratory studies based on the data provided by Google Scholar Citations. More specifically, we conduct a series of investigations on: i) the overall citation patterns across differen...

Модель предметной области на основе сервиса Google Scholar Citations (A Domain Model Created on the Basis of Google Scholar Citations)

Manipulating Google Scholar Citations and Google Scholar Metrics: simple, easy and tempting

The launch of Google Scholar Citations and Google Scholar Metrics may cause a revolution in the research evaluation field as it places within every researcher’s reach tools that allow them to measure their output. However, the data and bibliometric indicators offered by Google’s products can be easily manipulated. In order to alert the research community, we present an experiment in which we ma...

Google Scholar citations and Google Web/URL citations: A multi-discipline exploratory analysis

Mendeley as a Source of Readership by Students and Postdocs? Evaluating Article Usage by Academic Status

This paper explores readership counts provided by the social reference manager Mendeley as a source for usage statistics for scientific papers, based on a sample of 1.2 million documents published in journals from the four disciplines Biomedical Research, Clinical Medicine, Health and Psychology. It is shown that the percentage of papers with at least one user on Mendeley (65.9%) as well as the...