Citation and Journal Metrics: Google Scholar Citations

Strengths include

• Good coverage of all disciplines
• Good coverage of book citations
• Easy to set up a profile
• Publicly viewable
• No subscription needed
• Can download publication list into EndNote

Limitations include

• Possible problems with inflated citation rates
• Specific coverage details unavailable
• Not designed for searches of any complexity
• May be erroneous attributions and phantom publications.

Professor Peter Jacso is a Professor of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Hawaii. He writes extensively on bibliometrics. He has written articles which evaluates Google Scholar Citations. He also has a Google Scholar Citations profile himself.

Google Scholar released Google Scholar Citations in November 2011. This product allows you to easily create a profile from existing Google Scholar data. It displays your publications and citations, and calculates your h-index and i10-index.

The i10-index is the number of publications with at least 10 citations. It can be calculated against all publications for an author, or a 'recent' version, which is the number of publications that have received at least 10 new citations in the past 5 years.

Citation rates tend to be high but keep in mind that there may be some duplication and author misidentification.  

To check for UniSA researchers who may have a Google Scholar Citations profile, just search for their name in Google Scholar, and it should appear at the top of the results list.  UniSA researchers who already have a Google Scholar Citations Profile include:

Google Scholar released Google Scholar Citations in November 2011. This product allows you to easily create a profile from existing Google Scholar data. It displays your publications and citations, and calculates your h-index and i10-index.

The i10-index is the number of publications with at least 10 citations. It can be calculated against all publications for an author, or a 'recent' version, which is the number of publications that have received at least 10 new citations in the past 5 years.

Citation rates tend to be high but keep in mind that there may be some duplication and author misidentification.   

To check for UniSA researchers who may have a Google Scholar Citations profile, just search for their name in Google Scholar, and it should appear at the top of the results list.  UniSA researchers who already have a Google Scholar Citations Profile include: