Organizations and Markets

Citation Metrics Using Google Scholar

10 April 2007 at 1:39 pm Nicolai Foss 1 comment

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Are you in the process of preparing for tenure, promotion or for applying for a new job? Do you, as is increasingly the norm, wish to include your citatation data? Are you concerned that some or perhaps many of the journals in which your work is cited are not ISI listed?

Then you may benefit from checking out Anne-Wil Harzing’s new software for analyzing Google Scholar citation data, Publish or Perish. 

It produces a number of useful statistics, such as, obviously, total number of papers and citations, average citations, etc., but also, and less trivially, the important metrics for measuring an academic’s impact, such as Hirsch’s h-index (and its updated version that gives more weight to more recent papers).

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