Dear Lizzie,
dear all,
On Tue, Feb 07, 2017 at 10:35:09AM +0000, Elizabeth Gadd wrote:
> My more specific question is whether anyone has had an issue with
> their institutional ranking on Google Scholar (where you search for
> an institution and it lists all the academics associated with that
> institution in rank order by citation count)? Because of the
> age-old author disambiguation problem, we have quite a few PhD
> students with common Asian names appearing in our Top 10 author list
> who have had papers erroneously assigned to them, thus falsely
> inflating their citation count. This is causing some disgruntlement
> amongst those usurped of a Top 10 place! I think the only way of
> fixing this is to ask the individuals involved to remove the
> erroneous papers, however, this is challenging when the individuals
> have left.
Bear in mind that you cannot force people to have a Google account.
Without a Google account, they probably cannot fix that list directly.
One thing you could try is to encourage people to get an ORCID. This
may help Google and others to disambiguate author names eventually.
Other than that, I'm afraid all you can do now is to educate your
patrons about Google's bad data quality. They simply must not base any
decisions on this.
Cheers,
Chris
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