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Assessing the citation impact of books: The role of Google Books, Google Scholar, and Scopus
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Comparing the citation counts to 1,000 books submitted to the 2008 U.K. Research Assessment Exercise from Google Books and Google Scholar with Scopus citations shows that in book-oriented disciplines in the social sciences, arts, and humanities, online book citations may be sufficiently numerous to support peer review for research evaluation, at least in the United Kingdom.Abstract:
Citation indictors are increasingly used in some subject areas to support peer review in the evaluation of researchers and departments. Nevertheless, traditional journal-based citation indexes may be inadequate for the citation impact assessment of book-based disciplines. This article examines whether online citations from Google Books and Google Scholar can provide alternative sources of citation evidence. To investigate this, we compared the citation counts to 1,000 books submitted to the 2008 U.K. Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) from Google Books and Google Scholar with Scopus citations across seven book-based disciplines (archaeology; law; politics and international studies; philosophy; sociology; history; and communication, cultural, and media studies). Google Books and Google Scholar citations to books were 1.4 and 3.2 times more common than were Scopus citations, and their medians were more than twice and three times as high as were Scopus median citations, respectively. This large number of citations is evidence that in book-oriented disciplines in the social sciences, arts, and humanities, online book citations may be sufficiently numerous to support peer review for research evaluation, at least in the United Kingdom. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.read more
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Suitability of Google Scholar as a source of scientific information and as a source of data for scientific evaluation—Review of the Literature
TL;DR: The results show that GS has significantly expanded its coverage through the years which makes it a powerful database of scholarly literature, however, the quality of resources indexed and overall policy still remains known.
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The Google scholar experiment: How to index false papers and manipulate bibliometric indicators
TL;DR: In this paper, the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS) has published a paper on the use of data mining techniques in information science and technology.
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A preliminary test of Google Scholar as a source for citation data: a longitudinal study of Nobel prize winners
TL;DR: This article assesses to what extent Google Scholar can be used as an alternative source of citation data, and argues that Google Scholar might provide a less biased comparison across disciplines than the Web of Science.
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Can we use Google Scholar to identify highly-cited documents?
TL;DR: Evidence is found that Google Scholar ranks those documents whose language (or geographical web domain) matches with the user’s interface language higher than could be expected based on citations, however, this language effect and other factors related to the Google Scholar operation only have an incidental impact.
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Applied Evaluative Informetrics
TL;DR: This chapter presents an introduction to the book, and starts with on overview of the value and limits the use of informetric indicators in research assessment, and presents a short history of the field.
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Citation Analysis in Research Evaluation
TL;DR: This work focuses on assessing Basic Science Research Departments and Scientific Journals, as well as Empirical and Theoretical Chapters, and the Citation Indexes, which summarize the literature on empirical and theoretical determinants of scientific research.
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What do citation counts measure? A review of studies on citing behavior
Lutz Bornmann,Hans-Dieter Daniel +1 more
TL;DR: The general tendency of the results of the empirical studies makes it clear that citing behavior is not motivated solely by the wish to acknowledge intellectual and cognitive influences of colleague scientists, since the individual studies reveal also other, in part non‐scientific, factors that play a part in the decision to cite.
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Impact of data sources on citation counts and rankings of LIS faculty: Web of science versus scopus and google scholar
Lokman I. Meho,Kiduk Yang +1 more
TL;DR: Results show that Scopus significantly alters the relative ranking of those scholars that appear in the middle of the rankings and that GS stands out in its coverage of conference proceedings as well as international, non-English language journals.
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Bibliometric monitoring of research performance in the Social Sciences and the Humanities: A review
TL;DR: This paper addresses research performance monitoring of the social sciences and the humanities using citation analysis using a broader range of both publications and citation indicators and three options for bibliometric monitoring are discussed.
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Fatal attraction: Conceptual and methodological problems in the ranking of universities by bibliometric methods
TL;DR: A system of input, output, and efficiency indicators is sketched out, with each indicator related to basic research, applied research, and experimental development and inspired by empirical innovation economics.