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most citedMethods for estimating the size of Google Scholar

149 citations · 372 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.DL2018

Google Scholar: the 'big data' bibliographic tool

Emilio Delgado Lopez-Cozar, Enrique Orduna-Malea, Alberto Martin-Martin +1

The launch of Google Scholar back in 2004 meant a revolution not only in the scientific information search market but also in research evaluation processes. Its dynamism, unparalle…

cs.DL2018★ 17 cited

The lost academic home: institutional affiliation links in Google Scholar Citations

Enrique Orduña-Malea, Juan M. Ayllón, Alberto Martín-Martín +1

This paper analyzes the new affiliation feature available in Google-Scholar Citations revealing that the affiliation-tool works well for most-institutions, it is unable to detect a…

cs.DL2016★ 3 cited

2016 Google Scholar Metrics released: a matter of languages... and something else

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

The 2016 edition of Google Scholar Metrics was released on July 15th 2016. There haven't been any structural changes respect to previous versions, which means that most of its limi…

cs.DL2016★ 23 cited

A two-sided academic landscape: portrait of highly-cited documents in Google Scholar (1950-2013)

Alberto Martin-Martin, Enrique Orduna-Malea, Juan M. Ayllon +1

The main objective of this paper is to identify the set of highly-cited documents in Google Scholar and to define their core characteristics (document types, language, free availab…

cs.DL2016★ 3 cited

Proceedings Scholar Metrics: H Index of proceedings on Computer Science, Electrical & Electronic Engineering, and Communications according to Google Scholar Metrics (2010-2014)

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

The objective of this report is to present a list of proceedings (conferences, workshops, symposia, meetings) in the areas of Computer Science, Electrical & Electronic Engineering,…

cs.DL2016★ 29 cited

Back to the past: on the shoulders of an academic search engine giant

Alberto Martin-Martin, Enrique Orduna-Malea, Juan M. Ayllon +1

A study released by the Google Scholar team found an apparently increasing fraction of citations to old articles from studies published in the last 24 years (1990-2013). To demonst…

cs.DL2016★ 11 cited

The counting house: measuring those who count. Presence of Bibliometrics, Scientometrics, Informetrics, Webometrics and Altmetrics in the Google Scholar Citations, ResearcherID, ResearchGate, Mendeley & Twitter

Alberto Martin-Martin, Enrique Orduna-Malea, Juan M. Ayllon +1

Following in the footsteps of the model of scientific communication, which has recently gone through a metamorphosis (from the Gutenberg galaxy to the Web galaxy), a change in the…

cs.DL2015

Improvements in Google Scholar Citations are for the summer: creating an institutional affiliation link feature

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

This report describes the feature introduced by Google to provide standardized access to institutional affiliations within Google Scholar Citations. First, this new tool is describ…

cs.DL2015★ 149 cited

Methods for estimating the size of Google Scholar

Enrique Orduna-Malea, Juan M. Ayllon, Alberto Martin-Martin +1

The emergence of academic search engines (mainly Google Scholar and Microsoft Academic Search) that aspire to index the entirety of current academic knowledge has revived and incre…

cs.DL2015★ 4 cited

Reviving the past: the growth of citations to old documents

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

In this Digest we review a recent study released by the Google Scholar team on the apparently increasing fraction of citations to old articles from studies published in the last 24…

cs.DL2015

Proceedings Scholar Metrics: H Index of proceedings on Computer Science, Electrical & Electronic Engineering, and Communications according to Google Scholar Metrics (2009-2013)

Alberto Martin-Martin, Enrique Ordunna-Malea, Juan Manuel Ayllon +1

The objective of this report is to present a list of proceedings (conferences, workshops, symposia, meetings) in the areas of Computer Science, Electrical & Electronic Engineering,…

cs.DL2014★ 30 cited

Does Google Scholar contain all highly cited documents (1950-2013)?

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

The study of highly cited documents on Google Scholar (GS) has never been addressed to date in a comprehensive manner. The objective of this work is to identify the set of highly c…

cs.DL2014★ 12 cited

Google Scholar Metrics 2014: a low cost bibliometric tool

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

We analyse the main features of the third edition of Google Scholar Metrics (GSM), released in June 2014, focusing on its more important changes, strengths, and weaknesses. Additio…

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★ 40 cited

Empirical Evidences in Citation-Based Search Engines: Is Microsoft Academic Search dead?

Enrique Orduna-Malea, Juan Manuel Ayllon, Alberto Martin-Martin +1

The goal of this working paper is to summarize the main empirical evidences provided by the scientific community as regards the comparison between the two main citation based acade…