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Google Starts Ranking Journals
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JOURNAL RANKINGS AND CITATION ANALYSIS :
PERIODICALS: SCHOLARLY :
RESEARCH :
DATABASES: ACADEMIC AND SCHOLARLY:
Journal Metrics
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WRITING AND WRITERS: CITATION FORMAT FOOTNOTES ENDNOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY :
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Plagiarism, Citation and Referencing Styles
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On Sun, 15 Apr 2012, McKiernan, Gerard [LIB] wrote:
> *** Apologies for Receipt of Duplicate Postings ***
> Colleagues/
> On April 1 2012, Google announced a new feature to its Scholar service
> ... called Google Scholar Metrics. The service follows the same
> principle that has made Google's web search engine so successful - when
> you are unsure what a user is looking for, give them a list of options
> ranked by a metric of popularity. In this instance, the users are
> academics ready to submit their next breakthrough but are uncertain
> which journal to choose. The solution Scholar Metrics offers is a
> database summarizing the sway of the distributors of scholarship "to
> help authors as they consider where to publish their new research".
> Here's how it works. Google creates a list of all the articles a journal
> has published in a specified period of time. The citations to each
> article are counted in order to determine the publication's h-index,
> which is the largest number "h" such that each of the set of "h"
> articles were cited "h" or more times. As an example of how the h-index
> is calculated, consider a publication that has had six total articles
> having 2, 18, 11, 3, 22, and 9 citations, respectively. This gives the
> journal an h-index of four. Articles meeting the h-index criterion
> constitute the h-core. In the example, the core is the articles with 18,
> 11, 22 and 9 citations. Within the h-core, the median of the citation
> counts is used to assess the typical influence among the most highly
> cited set and is reported as the h-median.
> [more]
> BTW: What will Google do next? Develop a driverless automobile ? [:-)
> Source and Links Available Via
> [ http://bit.ly/HKQ9Zb ]
> Gerry McKiernan
> Associate Professor
> and
> Science and Technology Librarian
> Iowa State University
> 152 Parks Library
> Ames IA 50011
> http://scholarship20.blogspot.com/
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