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Relationship of Google Scholar Versions and Paper Citations
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: Received: 14 June 2017 / Approved: 14 June 2017 / Online: 14 June 2017 (06:07:12 CEST)
: Received: 14 June 2017 / Approved: 14 June 2017 / Online: 14 June 2017 (06:07:12 CEST)
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Mohammadjafari, M.; Salehi, H.; Bakhtiyari, K.; Ale
Ebrahim, N.; Danaee, M.; Shakiba, M.; Shahbazi-Moghadam, M.; Zavvari, A.
Relationship of Google Scholar Versions and Paper Citations. Preprints 2017, 2017060062 (doi: 10.20944/preprints201706.0062.v1).
Mohammadjafari, M.; Salehi, H.; Bakhtiyari,
K.; Ale Ebrahim, N.; Danaee, M.; Shakiba, M.; Shahbazi-Moghadam, M.;
Zavvari, A. Relationship of Google Scholar Versions and Paper Citations.
Preprints 2017, 2017060062 (doi: 10.20944/preprints201706.0062.v1).
Abstract
The number of citations that a paper has received is the most
commonly used indicator to measure the quality of research. Researchers,
journals, and universities want to receive more citations for their
scholarly publications to increase their h-index, impact factor, and
ranking respectively. In this paper, we tried to analyses the effect of
the number of available Google Scholar versions of a paper on citations
count. We analyzed 10,162 papers which are published in Scopus database
in year 2010 by Malaysian top five universities. Then we developed a
software to collect the number of citations and versions of each paper
from Google Scholar automatically. The result of spearman correlation
coefficient revealed that there is positive significant association
between the number of Google Scholar versions of a paper and the number
of times a paper has been cited.
commonly used indicator to measure the quality of research. Researchers,
journals, and universities want to receive more citations for their
scholarly publications to increase their h-index, impact factor, and
ranking respectively. In this paper, we tried to analyses the effect of
the number of available Google Scholar versions of a paper on citations
count. We analyzed 10,162 papers which are published in Scopus database
in year 2010 by Malaysian top five universities. Then we developed a
software to collect the number of citations and versions of each paper
from Google Scholar automatically. The result of spearman correlation
coefficient revealed that there is positive significant association
between the number of Google Scholar versions of a paper and the number
of times a paper has been cited.
Subject Areas
h-index; citations; published version; Scopus database; highly cited paper; bibliometrics
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