“Scholars have been devoting more attention to older literature, a new study of the citation patterns in journal articles reveals …” (more)
[Phil Davis, The Scholarly Kitchen, 10 November]
“There has been much discussion over how useful citation metrics, like Google Scholar’s H index, really are and to what extent they can be gamed. Specifically there appears to be concern over the practice of self-citation as it varies widely between disciplines …” (more)
[Impact of Social Sciences, 29 July]
“How can arts and social science faculty show their quality to be just as high as STEM? One of the things that becomes clear when you spend any time engaged in the promotions or hiring process of universities is that there is an increased drive towards metrics …” (more)
[Brian M Lucey, 19 July]
“Google Scholar, the academic bibliographic database provided free-of-charge by the search engine giant Google, has been suggested as an alternative or complementary resource to the commercial citation databases like Web of Knowledge (ISI/Thomson) or Scopus (Elsevier) …” (more)
[Ciaran Quinn, Research Support Librarian Blog, 13 September]
“When metrics become adopted as evaluative tools, there is always a temptation to game them. Without rules and sanctions to prevent widespread manipulation, metrics lose their relevance, become meaningless, and are quickly disregarded by those who once believed that they stood for something important …” (more)
[Phil Davis, The Scholarly Kitchen, 12 December]
“Professional identity is everything in academia, so Melissa Terras was shocked to discover the Internet had suddenly made her a specialist in Tarot Symbolism. Google Scholar and other online resources are easy to use to illustrate your online portfolio but what effects can it have when the Internet gets things wrong? …” (more)
[Impact of Social Sciences, 26 November]
“One of the reasons science librarians prefer subscription-based databases (ie SciFinder or Web of Science) or those offered as a service of the government (ie PubMed) is the nonstandard behavior of Google Scholar when compared to those resources …” (more)
[Michelle C Hamilton and others, Impact of Social Sciences, 17 September]
“It’s no secret that Google’s PageRank algorithm is basically the familiar journal citation approach blown out mathematically and practically to achieve the real-time network effect. Oh, how powerful it is! Now, Google is going a bit more old school …” (more)
[Kent Anderson, The Scholarly Kitchen, 24 April]
“Abstract: Google Scholar, the academic bibliographic database provided free-of-charge by the search engine giant Google, has been suggested as an alternative or complementary resource to the commercial citation databases like Web of Knowledge (ISI/Thomson) or Scopus (Elsevier). In order to check the usefulness of this database for bibliometric analysis, and especially research evaluation, a novel approach is introduced …” (more)
[Scholarship 2.0, 19 April]
“As webmasters dabble into the land of exciting possibilities enabled by recent developments in browser technology, it’s essential to remember that different users use different browsers, and webpages that work in one browser will not necessarily work in another. But developer time is limited – so, how important is it for a scholarly website to support version N of browser B? …” (more)
[Google Scholar Blog, 4 August]
