Google Scholar citation indexes Wednesday 30 th October

Google Scholar citation indexes Wednesday, 30 th October 2013 London Karen Blakeman, RBA Information Services Karen. Blakeman@rba. co. uk, http: //www. rba. co. uk/search/ twitter. com/karenblakeman Slides will be available on http: //www. authorstream. com and http: //www. slideshare. com/. Also available temporarily at http: //www. rba. co. uk/as/ 05/09/2021 www. rba. co. uk 1 This presentation is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3. 0 License

h-Index h-index developed in 2005 by Jorge Hirsch, University of California in San Diego Attempts to quantify productivity and apparent scientific impact of a scientist. “A scientist has index h if h of his/her Np papers have at least h citations each, and the other (Np − h) papers have no more than h citations each”. For example, an h-index of 20 means that the researcher has 20 papers each of which has been cited 20 or more times Calculated by Scopus, Wo. S, Google Scholar, but only for those papers within the database 05/09/2021 www. rba. co. uk 2

g-Index g-index - distribution of citations received by a given researcher's publications Devised by Leo Egghe in 2006 “Given a set of articles ranked in decreasing order of the number of citations that they received, the g-index is the (unique) largest number such that the top g articles received (together) at least g 2 citations. ” g-index - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/G-index 05/09/2021 www. rba. co. uk 3

Other indices i 10 Index i 10 -index is the number of publications with at least 10 citations e-Index PLOS ONE: The e-Index, Complementing the h-Index for Excess Citations http: //www. plosone. org/article/info: doi%2 F 10. 1371%2 Fjournal. pone. 0005429 05/09/2021 www. rba. co. uk 4

Google Scholar h-index Author creates a profile and claims papers 05/09/2021 www. rba. co. uk 5

Google Scholar h-index Scholar. HIndex. Calculator - m. Wiki https: //www. mat. unical. it/ianni/wiki/Scholar. HIndex. Calculator Add-on for Chrome (development of new features stopped for Firefox) 05/09/2021 www. rba. co. uk 6

Google Scholar - Scholarometer: Browser Extension and Web Service for Academic Impact Analysis http: //scholarometer. indiana. edu/ Firefox and Chrome 05/09/2021 www. rba. co. uk 7

Google Scholar - Scholarometer 05/09/2021 www. rba. co. uk 8

Google Scholar – Publish or Perish - Anne-Wil Harzing http: //www. harzing. com/pop. htm Desktop application 05/09/2021 www. rba. co. uk 9