Google Scholar Citations
Bibliometrics Product Profile sheet
website: http://www.ndlr.ie/myri/
Last edited: Aug 22 2012
1. Name of the product
2. Access
3. Web link
4. Related products
5. Main bibliometric
and related uses
Google Scholar Citations
Free academic citation measuring tool developed by Google.
http://scholar.google.com/citations
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Free services: Google Scholar with Publish or Perish.
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Subscription services: Web of Science, Scopus
Author Profile Page
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Provides publication and citation counts, h-index, i10-index1, authors’
collaborations.
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Citation counts for both individual articles and all articles by an
individual author are displayed as graphs.
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Citation metrics and graphs are automatically updated when Google
Scholar index is updated.
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Lists all citing articles.
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Author profile page can be made public (i.e. will be found in Google
Scholar search) or kept private. Public URL can be embedded in
homepage or email.
6. The dataset
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Citation counts are based on Google Scholar index.
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i10-index = Number of articles that have at least 10 citations. It was introduced by Google as part of Google Scholar
in 2011.
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7. Other notable
features
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Missing articles can be added to author profile manually.
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Email notification for new citations of specific articles.
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Article description can be edited.
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Duplicated articles can be merged.
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It is possible to “follow” a specific author, i.e. to receive notification
when a new article or a new citation is added.
8. Issues
Google account is needed to create a profile.
9. Further information
http://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/citations.html
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