most citedThe Google Scholar Experiment: how to index false papers and manipulate bibliometric indicators

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cs.DL2014★ 51 cited

About the size of Google Scholar: playing the numbers

Enrique Orduña-Malea, Juan Manuel Ayllón, Alberto Martín-Martín +1

The emergence of academic search engines (Google Scholar and Microsoft Academic Search essentially) has revived and increased the interest in the size of the academic web, since th…

cs.DL2014

The dark side of Open Access in Google and Google Scholar: the case of Latin-American repositories

Enrique Orduña-Malea, Emilio Delgado Lopez-Cozar

Since repositories are a key tool in making scholarly knowledge open access, determining their presence and impact on the Web is essential, particularly in Google (search engine pa…

cs.DL2013

Google Scholar Metrics evolution: an analysis according to languages

Enrique Orduna-Malea, Emilio Delgado Lopez-Cozar

In November 2012 the Google Scholar Metrics (GSM) journal rankings were updated, making it possible to compare bibliometric indicators in the 10 languages indexed and their stabili…

cs.DL2013★ 239 cited

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…

cs.DL2013★ 1 cited

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…