Google Scholar is a popular tool for monitoring how your publications are cited. Join us for a workshop introducing Google Scholar’s advantages (e.g., ease of use) and limitations (e.g., transparency). Set up your Google Scholar researcher profile, discovering your h-index in the process, in a few minutes. Learn how to set up a Google Alert, another tool that can provide a view on your impact.

1. Google Scholar
for Metrics
Diane Clark & Christina Hwang
October 7, 2015

2. Our Session Description
Google Scholar is a popular tool for monitoring how your publications are cited.
Join us for a workshop introducing Google Scholar’s advantages (e.g., ease of
use) and limitations (e.g., transparency).
Set up your Google Scholar researcher profile, discovering your h-index in the
process, in a few minutes. Learn how to set up a Google Alert, another tool that
can provide a view on your impact.

3. Outline
● Google Scholar Advantages & Limitations
● Set up your Google Scholar Profile
● Google Alert and other settings

4. “The search engine functionality and human search patterns lead us to
believe, sometimes, that what you see in the search engine's results
page is all that really exists”
(Orduña-Malea et al., 2014)

5. 170 - 175 mil 57 mil 53 mil
Orduna-Malea et al 2015
Does Size Matter?

6. Google Scholar - Advantages & Disadvantages
Pro
● coverage
● getting better
● use with Publish or Perish for best results
● promote “hidden gems”
● repositories e.g. Arxiv, SSRN, NBER and
RePEC, ERA (UA’s institutional repository)
● retrieves open databases e.g. PubMed
● institution affiliation search (new)
Con
● coverage
● data quality
● no connection to ORCID
● not all publisher content
● transparency

7. List of cited by
Conference proceeding
Citeseer - scientific literature
digital library & search engine
No link to Scopus

8. Where cited by
(Times Cited)
results are retrieved

9. 59 Cited by - information not
available in Google Scholar
Journals

10. Google Scholar v Web of Science / Scopus
● Architecture and technology
● Policy and management (business)
● Economics
● Engineering
● Computer Science
● Chemistry
● Applied science
● Biomedicine
● Economics
● Pharmacology
● Physics
● Cell Biology

11. Google Scholar Profile

12. Einstein’s Profile

13. Conference proceeding
Uploading Your Citations to Your CCV

15. Google Alert and Other Settings
● Google Alert - email alerts
● Journal ranking
● Ualberta Libraries linking
● Reference Manager / CCV / ORCID exporting

16. Other Options for Managing Citations

17. References
Harzing, A.W. Alakangas, S. (2015) Citation metrics versus peer review: a longitudinal comparison of Google Scholar,
Scopus and Web of Science citation data across disciplines, symposium contribution at the 72nd Academy of Management
annual meeting, August 7-11, in Vancouver, Canada.
Harzing, A.W. (2014) A longitudinal study of Google Scholar coverage between 2012 and 2013,Scientometrics, vol. 98, no.
1, pp. 565-575.
Lisée, C., Larivière, V., Archambault, E. (2008). Conference Proceedings as a Source of Scientific Information: A
Bibliometric Analysis. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 59(11):1776–1784.
Martín-Martín, Orduña-Malea, Ayllón, López-Cózar (2014). Does Google Scholar contain all highly cited documents (1950-
2013)?. arXiv
Orduña-Malea, E.; Ayllón, J.M.; Martín-Martín, A.; Delgado López-Cózar, E. (2015). Improvements in Google Scholar
Citations are for the summer: Creating an institutional affiliation linking feature. Granada: EC3 Reports, 14.
Orduña-Malea, Ayllón, Martín-Martín, Delgado López-Cózar (2015). Methods for estimating the size of Google Scholar.
Scientometrics

18. diane.clark@ualberta.ca
christina.hwang@ualberta.ca