The Google scholar experiment: How to index false papers and manipulate bibliometric indicators
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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.Abstract:
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The Role of Google Scholar in Evidence Reviews and Its Applicability to Grey Literature Searching.
TL;DR: It is concluded that whilst Google Scholar can find much grey literature and specific, known studies, it should not be used alone for systematic review searches, rather, it forms a powerful addition to other traditional search methods.
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A review of the literature on citation impact indicators
TL;DR: In this paper, an in-depth review of the literature on citation impact indicators is provided, focusing on the selection of publications and citations to be included in the calculation of citation impact indicator.
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Google Scholar, Web of Science, and Scopus: A systematic comparison of citations in 252 subject categories
TL;DR: Martin-Martin this article was funded for a four-year doctoral fellowship (FPU2013/05863) granted by the Ministerio de Educacion, Cultura, y Deportes (Spain).
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Google Scholar, Web of Science, and Scopus: a systematic comparison of citations in 252 subject categories
TL;DR: Alberto Martin-Martin is funded for a four-year doctoral fellowship by the Ministerio de Educacion, Cultura, y Deportes (Spain) and an international mobility grant from Universidad de Granada and CEI BioTic Granadafunded a research stay at the University of Wolverhampton.
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A review of the literature on citation impact indicators
TL;DR: An in-depth review of the literature on citation impact indicators with recommendations for future research on normalization for field differences and counting methods for dealing with co-authored publications.
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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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Which h-index? — A comparison of WoS, Scopus and Google Scholar
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Google Scholar as a new source for citation analysis
Anne-Wil Harzing,Ron van der Wal +1 more
TL;DR: It is argued that these metrics provide additional advantages over the JIF and that the free availability of GS allows for a democratization of citation analysis as it provides every academic access to citation data regardless of their institution's financial means.
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