The importance of impact factor of journals and h-index of academics who aspire in their career to the rank of professor cannot be over emphasized. Google Scholar Citations Help (GSCH) is a software (A – W. Harzing’s publish – or – perish) that academics can use to determine the h-index of their publications. I used the software to calculate h-index of my publications, unfortunately what the so...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the use of the h-index as a measure of the bibliometric impact of Brazilian researchers' scientific publications. METHODS The scientific production of Brazilian CNPq 1-A researchers in the areas of public health, immunology and medicine were compared. The mean h-index of the groups of researchers in each area were estimated and nonparametric Kruskal Wallis test and multip...

Various studies have attempted to assess the amount of free full text available on the web and recent work have suggested that we are close to the 50% mark for freely available articles (Archambault et al. 2013; Björk et al. 2010; Jamali and Nabavi 2015). Our paper contributes to the literature by taking into account the timing issue by studying when the papers were made free. We sampled citati...

The main objective of this paper is to identify the set of highly-cited documents in Google Scholar and to define their core characteristics (document types, language, free availability, source providers, and number of versions), under the hypothesis that the wide coverage of this search engine may provide a different portrait about this document set respect to that offered by the traditional b...

OBJECTIVE To review baboon syndrome (BS). DATA SOURCES Date sources were obtained from PubMed and Google Scholar: Photographs of baboon syndrome were obtained from our patient. STUDY SELECTIONS PubMed and Google Scholar were searched up to June 30, 2010. The search terms were "baboon syndrome", "SDRIFE" and "thimerosal allergy". Reverse references from relevant articles and Google Scholar w...

An increasing number of online information services calculate and report the citedness score of the source documents and provide a link to the group of records of the citing documents. The citedness score depends on the breadth of source coverage, and the ability of the software to identify the cited documents correctly. The citedness score may be a good indicator of the influence of the docume...