Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1410.8464

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

Alberto Martín-Martín,
Enrique Orduña-Malea,
Juan Manuel Ayllón,
Emilio Delgado López-Cózar

(Submitted on 30 Oct 2014 (v1), last revised 3 Nov 2014 (this version, v3))

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 cited documents in Google Scholar and define their
core characteristics: their languages, their file format, or how many of them
can be accessed free of charge. We will also try to answer some additional
questions that hopefully shed some light about the use of GS as a tool for
assessing scientific impact through citations. The decalogue of research
questions is shown below:

1. Which are the most cited documents in GS?

2. Which are the most cited document types in GS?

3. What languages are the most cited documents written in GS?

4. How many highly cited documents are freely accessible?

4.1 What file types are the most commonly used to store these highly cited
documents?

4.2 Which are the main providers of these documents?

5. How many of the highly cited documents indexed by GS are also indexed by
WoS?

6. Is there a correlation between the number of citations that these highly
cited documents have received in GS and the number of citations they have
received in WoS?

7. How many versions of these highly cited documents has GS detected?

8. Is there a correlation between the number of versions GS has detected for
these documents, and the number citations they have received?

9. Is there a correlation between the number of versions GS has detected for
these documents, and their position in the search engine result pages?

10. Is there some relation between the positions these documents occupy in
the search engine result pages, and the number of citations they have received?

Comments:	Full raw data available at: this http URL
Subjects:	Digital Libraries (cs.DL)
Report number:	EC3's Working Papers 19
Cite as:	arXiv:1410.8464 [cs.DL]
	(or arXiv:1410.8464v3 [cs.DL] for this version)

Submission history

From: Alberto Martín-Martín [view email]


[v1] Thu, 30 Oct 2014 17:54:21 GMT (2303kb)

[v2] Fri, 31 Oct 2014 17:31:38 GMT (3511kb)

[v3] Mon, 3 Nov 2014 10:50:33 GMT (2572kb)

[1410.8464] Does Google Scholar contain all highly cited documents (1950-2013)?