Harzing's Publish or Perish has been using this database for a long time now. Last I checked they had not opened up the Google version yet.
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 4:42 PM, David Inouye <ino...@umd.edu> wrote: > Some information from an article in 4 August 2011 Nature, "Computing giants > launch free science metrics". If you don't have free access to Web of > Science and want to get data on citations for an author or article, try the > new free services from Google and Microsoft. > > > Overview: Google Scholar Citations > > A Google Scholar Universal Gadget that enables users to search for the total > number of citations of author(s). It provides a total citation count, total > number of cited publications and Jorge E. Hirsch's > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirsch_number>H-Index. > > http://code.google.com/p/citations-gadget/ > > If you put the name in quotation marks when searching on an author's name, > it will do a better job of restricting search to the desired author, I've > found. I think this program also includes books by the author, which I > don't think Web of Science does. I found that for my own name, at least the > numbers reported are: > > Web of Science Google > # papers cited 62 54 > > # citations 2547 3181 > > H index 27 29 > > In a future feature users will be able to create a personal profile showing > all their articles in the Google Scholar database. You can sign up to be > notified when this feature is made available beyond the current beta > testers. > > Microsoft Academic Search has some similar features to GSC, including > visualizations of citation networks (I'm linked to Paul Erdos by only 4 > links, I discovered), but has indexed a much smaller amount of literature > than GSC. > > David Inouye > -- Malcolm L. McCallum Oceania University of Medicine Managing Editor, Herpetological Conservation and Biology "Peer pressure is designed to contain anyone with a sense of drive" - Allan Nation 1880's: "There's lots of good fish in the sea" W.S. Gilbert 1990's: Many fish stocks depleted due to overfishing, habitat loss, and pollution. 2000: Marine reserves, ecosystem restoration, and pollution reduction MAY help restore populations. 2022: Soylent Green is People! The Seven Blunders of the World (Mohandas Gandhi) Wealth w/o work Pleasure w/o conscience Knowledge w/o character Commerce w/o morality Science w/o humanity Worship w/o sacrifice Politics w/o principle Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message.
