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Ranking Researchers using Google Scholar

Ranking Researchers using Google Scholar. By: Mohamed El- dosuky , PhD., Faculty of Computer &Info., Mansoura University November 2014. Outcomes for today.

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Ranking Researchers using Google Scholar

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  1. Ranking Researchers using Google Scholar By: Mohamed El-dosuky, PhD., Faculty of Computer &Info., Mansoura University November 2014

  2. Outcomes for today...

  3. h-index is the largest number h such that hpublications have at least hcitations. The second column has the "recent" version of this metric which is the largest number h such that h publications have at least h new citations in the last 5 years (Hirsch, 2005) i10-index is the number of publications with at least 10citations. The second column has the "recent" version of this metric which is the number of publications that have received at least 10 new citations in the last 5 years

  4. What are bibliometrics? Citation analysis

  5. Example: Calculating the h-index No. Papers No. Citations 1 33 2 30 3 20 4 15 5 7 6 6 7 3 8 1 h-index = 6 The limitations of the h-index for early researchers horizontal

  6. Web of Science • Scopus • Google Scholar • Harzing’s Publish or Perish • Scholarometer • Microsoft Academic Search • CiteSeer • … Citation Databases

  7. Using Google scholar .

  8. http://scholar.google.com

  9. Creating a Google scholar profile .

  10. Step 1: Set up a Google account Go to www.google.com Click on “more”

  11. Step 1: continued From the menu, click on Gmail

  12. Step 1: continued Create your own username and password

  13. Step 1: continued Create your own username and password

  14. Step 1: continued Once you have your own Gmail account, go to the Google homepage and sign in with your new account Click on “more”, then click on “even more” Click on “Scholar” from the menu

  15. Google Scholar Citations

  16. Google Scholar Citations

  17. Google Scholar Citations

  18. Google Scholar Citations

  19. Google Scholar Citations

  20. High rank profile .

  21. Annette Holtkamp - ASP2012

  22. arXiv.org • Electronic archive and distribution server for research articles • Physics, mathematics, computer science, nonlinear sciences, quantitative biology, statistics • Persistent access • Started in Aug 1991 • Mainly new papers pre-publication • Submission by registered authors • recognized academic affiliation • Reviewed by moderators • basic quality control: Refereeablescientific contributions • control of category assignments

  23. The main problem in using Google scholar . Difficult to deal with name variants

  24. Researcher ID

  25. Summary Google account

  26. Illustrations credit Surat-al-mujadilah Cover http://islamicartdb.com/quran-5811-surat-al-mujadilah/ Google E=mc2 courtesy of Google. H-index curve http://sci2s.ug Prof. A. Zewil clip, HunaAlasema, CBC Egypt

  27. Bibliography Bar-Ilan, Judit (2008). Which h-index? – A comparison of WoS, Scopus and Google Scholar. Scientometrics, Vol. 74, No. 2, 257-271 http://sci2s.ugr.es/hindex/pdf/Bar-Ilan2008.pdf Harzing, Anne-Wil (2008) Google Scholar – a new data source for citation analysis http://www.harzing.com/pop_gs.htm, accessed 7/11/2013 HEA (2014). Higher Education System Performance Framework 2014-2016 http://www.hea.ie/sites/default/files/1._revised_system_performance_framework_2014-16.pdf , accessed 21/5/2014 Hirsch, J. E. (2005). An index to quantify an individual's scientific research output. Proceedings of the National academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 102(46), 16569-16572, http://www.pnas.org/content/102/46/16569.full, accessed 8/5/2014 Ireland, T., MacDonald, K., & Stirling, P. The H-Index: What Is It, How Do We Determine It, and How Can We Keep Up With It? http://nfgwin.uni-duesseldorf.de/sites/default/files/Ireland.pdf, accessed 8/5/2014 Oxford Dictionaries www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/bibliometrics?q=bibliometrics, accessed 13/5/2014 This guide includes material from MyRI: Measuring your Research Impact and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

  28. Questions? • Please contact: Mohamed A. El-dosuky, PhD., Faculty of Computer &Info., Mansoura University www.el-dosuky.com meldosuky@gmail.com (+20)(0100) 975-2991

  29. Thank you

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