ResearchGate versus Google Scholar: Which finds more early citations?

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...

Performance Behavior Patterns in Author-Level Metrics: A Disciplinary Comparison of Google Scholar Citations, ResearchGate, and ImpactStory

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. To do this, two sample...

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