226 citations · 810 across the 26 of their papers we have counts for
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Microsoft Academic Automatic Document Searches: Accuracy for Journal Articles and Suitability for Citation Analysis
Mike Thelwall
Microsoft Academic is a free academic search engine and citation index that is similar to Google Scholar but can be automatically queried. Its data is potentially useful for biblio…
Microsoft Academic: A multidisciplinary comparison of citation counts with Scopus and Mendeley for 29 journals
Mike Thelwall
Microsoft Academic is a free citation index that allows large scale data collection. This combination makes it useful for scientometric research. Previous studies have found that i…
The Research Production of Nations and Departments: A Statistical Model for the Share of Publications
Mike Thelwall, Ruth Fairclough
Policy makers and managers sometimes assess the share of research produced by a group (country, department, institution). This takes the form of the percentage of publications in a…
Confidence intervals for normalised citation counts: Can they delimit underlying research capability?
Mike Thelwall
Normalised citation counts are routinely used to assess the average impact of research groups or nations. There is controversy over whether confidence intervals for them are theore…
Do ResearchGate Scores create ghost academic reputations?
Enrique Orduna-Malea, Alberto Martin-Martin, Mike Thelwall +1
The academic social network site ResearchGate (RG) has its own indicator, RG Score, for its members. The high profile nature of the site means that the RG score may be used for rec…
The Accuracy of Confidence Intervals for Field Normalised Indicators
Mike Thelwall, Ruth Fairclough
When comparing the average citation impact of research groups, universities and countries, field normalisation reduces the influence of discipline and time. Confidence intervals fo…