Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:45:33 -0800, David Epstein wrote: On Thu, 12 Jan 2012, Michael Palij went: >>So, Google Scholar inflates the number of articles that a >>specific researcher has publishes (when I checked for >>my pubs, GS provided multiple hits for a single article > >But Google Scholar, like WoS, now lets you do a citation analysis on >your own work by weeding out the papers that shouldn't be there.
I've used "My Citation" and it does not agree with WoS -- some articles have lower hits, others have higher hits, and has fewer publications than WoS. In GS, one article which was published in a journal and simultaneously in a standalone volume are counted as two different pubs in Google Scholar but not in WoS (I think these should count as one entry). Both provide the same h-number but I think the number of citations is larger in GS. The GS "i10-index" is I believe unique to GS and I would be very leery of relying upon it even though I think it will be larger than the h-number in most cases (it is my case). WoS has the capability of allowing one to select which articles to use through the "Distinct Author Set" function. So, do a cited author search, it produces a list of hits, at the top is "Distinct Author Set" and click on the name. This calls up the articles found and you can cull from this list which can then be used in citation analysis. This was easier to do in previous versions of WoS. >(Click on "My Citations.") Trouble is, Google Scholar seems to >provide no easy way to do this on someone else's work. Well, someday there'll be an app for that. ;-) -Mike Palij New York University [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=15278 or send a blank email to leave-15278-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
