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

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

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...

Microsoft Academic Search and Google Scholar Citations: A comparative analysis

This paper aims to make a comparative analysis between the personal profiling capabilities of the two most important free citation-based academic search engines, namely Microsoft Academic Search (MAS) and Google Scholar Citations (GSC). Author profiles can be very useful for evaluation purposes once the advantages and the shortcomings of these services are described and taken into consideration...

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...