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The Google Scholar Experiment: how to index false papers and manipulate bibliometric indicators
Emilio Delgado López-Cózar, Nicolás Robinson-Garcia, Daniel Torres-Salinas
Google Scholar has been well received by the research community. Its promises of free, universal and easy access to scientific literature as well as the perception that it covers b…
Letter to the editor: Against the Resilience of Rejected Manuscripts
Nicolas Robinson-Garcia, Daniel Torres-Salinas, J. M. Campanario +1
In this letter we propose the development of guidelines by the main editors associations as well as protocols within online journal management systems for keeping track of rejected…
Altmetrics: New Indicators for Scientific Communication in Web 2.0
Daniel Torres-Salinas, Alvaro Cabezas-Clavijo, Evaristo Jimenez-Contreras
In this paper we review the socalled altmetrics or alternative metrics. This concept raises from the development of new indicators based on Web 2.0, for the evaluation of the resea…
Analyzing the citation characteristics of books: edited books, book series and types of publishers in the Book Citation Index
Daniel Torres-Salinas, Nicolás Robinson-García, Álvaro Cabezas-Clavijo +1
This paper presents a first approach to analyzing the factors that determine the citation characteristics of books. For this we use the Thomson Reuters' Book Citation Index, a nove…
An insight into the importance of national university rankings in an international context: The case of the I-UGR Rankings of Spanish universities
Nicolás Robinson-García, Daniel Torres-Salinas, Emilio Delgado López-Cózar +1
The great importance international rankings have achieved in the research policy arena warns against many threats consequence of the flaws and shortcomings these tools present. One…
Best-in-class and Strategic Benchmarking of Scientific Subject Categories of Web of Science in 2010
J. A. García, Rosa Rodriguez-Sánchez, Joaquín Fdez-Valdivia +2
Here we show a novel technique for comparing subject categories, where the prestige of academic journals in each category is represented statistically by an impact-factor histogram…