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

The Google scholar experiment: How to index false papers and manipulate bibliometric indicators

Google Scholar has been well received by the research community. Its promises of free, universal and easy access to scientific literature as well as the perception that it covers better than other traditional multidisciplinary databases the areas of the Social Sciences and the Humanities have contributed to the quick expansion of Google Scholar Citations and Google Scholar Metrics: two new bibl...

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...

Citations and the h index of soil researchers and journals in the Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar

Citation metrics and h indices differ using different bibliometric databases. We compiled the number of publications, number of citations, h index and year since the first publication from 340 soil researchers from all over the world. On average, Google Scholar has the highest h index, number of publications and citations per researcher, and the Web of Science the lowest. The number of papers i...

H Index of History journals published in Spain according to Google Scholar Metrics (2007-2011)

Google Scholar Metrics (GSM), which was recently launched in April 2012, features new bibliometric systems for gauging scientific journals by counting the number of citations obtained in Google Scholar. This way, it opens new possibilities for measuring journal impacts in the field of Humanities. The present article intends to evaluate the scope of this tool through analysing GSM’s searches, fr...

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