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About the size of Google Scholar: playing the numbers
[article]
2014
arXiv
pre-print
The results, despite providing disparate values, place the estimated size of Google Scholar in about 160 million documents. ...
The main objective of this working paper is to calculate the size of Google Scholar at present (May 2014). ...
For example, in the decade of 2001-2010, the size of WoS was almost twothirds (62%) the size of Google Scholar, but on the 1970s WoS almost matched the size of Google Scholar (91%). ...
arXiv:1407.6239v2
fatcat:umi64ugex5dpldqq4akzdjbn7e
Google Scholar: the 'big data' bibliographic tool
[article]
2018
arXiv
pre-print
The launch of Google Scholar back in 2004 meant a revolution not only in the scientific information search market but also in research evaluation processes. ...
The main objective of this chapter is to show how Google Scholar operates and how its core database may be used for bibliometric purposes. ...
The coverage of Google Scholar Coverage and growth rate are essential aspects of any bibliographic database. This is not only about information transparency but about context. ...
arXiv:1806.06351v1
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Empirical Patterns in Google Scholar Citation Counts
2014
2014 IEEE 8th International Symposium on Service Oriented System Engineering
This paper explores those patterns, using the citation data from Google Scholar for a number of authors. ...
The detail of the number of citations per publication is nowadays mapped in much more detail on the Web, exposing certain empirical patterns. ...
Google Scholar was used to provide publication data for this paper. Peter Breuer is grateful to Richard Gill of the University of Leiden for conversations that laid bare the statistical analysis. ...
doi:10.1109/sose.2014.55
dblp:conf/sose/BreuerB14
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Google Scholar: Potentially Good for Users of Academic Information
2006
Journal of Electronic Publishing
Use of Google Scholar will benefit the authors and managers of open access content, but there are opportunities for all types of academic content providers in the way Google Scholar is set up. ...
And we use Google for exactly the same reasons as students: ease of use, saving time, and access to a 1 Information about Google is available on the Google international web-site ...
A Google Scholar search did (at the time of writing) reduce the number of results from 598 million in Google to 1,250,000 in Google Scholar, and using the "Advanced Search" to limit the results to articles ...
doi:10.3998/3336451.0009.105
fatcat:w7hgsvjyrbfq5mtfvy6kkkwrgi
Pakistani LIS scholars' altmetrics in ResearchGate
2017
Program
Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to analyse the research performance of Pakistani library and information science (LIS) scholars, using the altmetrics provided by ResearchGate. ...
The majority of publications had not been published in a high impact factor journal. ...
in Google Scholar. ...
doi:10.1108/prog-07-2016-0052
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Google Scholar as a data source for research assessment
[article]
2018
arXiv
pre-print
Google Scholar Metrics and Google Scholar Citations), made many scientists wonder about its potential as a source of data for bibliometric analyses. ...
The launch of Google Scholar (GS) marked the beginning of a revolution in the scientific information market. ...
Table 4 shows a compilation of the studies that have provided estimations of the size of Google Scholar. ...
arXiv:1806.04435v2
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Just Google It - Digital Research Practices of Humanities Scholars
[article]
2014
arXiv
pre-print
This dominant use illustrates the paradoxical attitude of scholars toward Google: while provenance and context are deemed key academic requirements, the workings of the Google algorithm remain unclear. ...
To gain insight into this process we conducted a survey among nearly three hundred (N= 288) humanities scholars in the Netherlands and Belgium with the aim of finding answers to the following questions ...
We also thank the following colleagues and organisations for their cooperation and input: Henri Beunders, Franciska de Jong, Renske Jongbloed, het Huizinga Instituut, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics ...
arXiv:1309.2434v3
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Comparing test searches in PubMed and Google Scholar
2007
Journal of the Medical Library Association
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For example, Google Scholar does not offer the number and extent of special searching and limiting features available in PubMed. ...
doi:10.3163/1536-5050.95.4.442
pmid:17971893
pmcid:PMC2000776
fatcat:ae4wbmupzzcx3dnmah3tt5wnk4
Analyzing Citation Frequencies of Leading Software Engineering Scholars
2012
Computer and Information Science
Clearly, the results of our study are influenced by the coverage of these tools so that we have also analyzed Google Scholar and found it having a very high coverage of software engineering publications ...
In order to do that, we have chosen the area of software engineering and created a first comprehensive ranking, illustrating citation values of world class scholars by analyzing the work of almost 700 ...
It is also interesting to see the extremely large publication numbers that are attributed to some of the researchers by Google Scholar. ...
doi:10.5539/cis.v6n1p1
fatcat:7wn3a24p6ng6fcpetsrxzch65e
Putting Google Scholar to the test: a preliminary study
2007
Program
Also, the relatively small sample size limits the scope of the study's findings. ...
Purpose -To describe a small-scale quantitative evaluation of the scholarly information search engine, Google Scholar. ...
Robinson in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master in Library and Information Studies at University College Dublin. ...
doi:10.1108/00330330710724908
fatcat:4fx6lt4xwvfjtgu27o6mybh4ye
Google Scholar to overshadow them all? Comparing the sizes of 12 academic search engines and bibliographic databases
2018
Scientometrics
Hence, it is difficult to assess the scope of specific databases, such as Google Scholar. ...
By our estimation Google Scholar, with 389 million records, is currently the most comprehensive academic search engine. ...
Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creat iveco mmons .org/licen ses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, ...
doi:10.1007/s11192-018-2958-5
fatcat:gg6yyil5wbbodoyzvigwsr5ena
How Scholarly Is Google Scholar? A Comparison to Library Databases
2009
College and Research Libraries
of the program: ...
a comparison to library databases • I'd like to start this morning by sharing a story I heard a couple years ago on the NPR program "This American Life" • You will be hearing from Alex Blumberg, the producer ...
Google Scholar Results We ran the same query in Google Scholar and saved the results again in a bibliographic Manager. We used Zotero to quickly export all of the results. ...
doi:10.5860/crl.70.3.227
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How Scholarly Is Google Scholar? A Comparison to Library Databases
2009
College and Research Libraries
Google Scholar was released as a beta product in November of 2004. Since then, Google Scholar has been scrutinized and questioned by many in academia and the library field. ...
of materials found in Google Scholar across disciplines. ...
Google Scholar Results We ran the same query in Google Scholar and saved the results again in a bibliographic Manager. We used Zotero to quickly export all of the results. ...
doi:10.5860/0700227
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Google Scholar Users and User Behaviors: An Exploratory Study
2011
College and Research Libraries
The University of Mississippi Library created a profile to provide linking from Google Scholar (GS) to library resources in 2005. ...
The purpose of this project is to examine users of Google Scholar with existing data from interlibrary loan transactions and library Web site click-through logs and analytics. ...
A number of user studies also shed some light on the use of Google among students and researchers. ...
doi:10.5860/crl-125rl
fatcat:a6ubniwmuvhspp57c5fkm2a3ae
Female scholars need to achieve more for equal public recognition
[article]
2019
arXiv
pre-print
We calculate the probability of appearing on Wikipedia as a scientist for both male and female scholars in three different fields. ...
Different kinds of "gender gap" have been reported in different walks of the scientific life, almost always favouring male scientists over females. ...
We thank Jop Flameling for discussion on the research design and data collection. TY was partially supported by the Alan Turing Institute under the EPSRC grant no. EP/N510129/1. ...
arXiv:1904.06310v2
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