...Fayaz Ahmad Loan; Nahida Nasreen; Bisma Bashir Purpose The study's main purpose is to scrutinize Google Scholar profiles and find the answer to the question, “Do authors play fair or manipulate Google Scholar Bibliometric Indicators like h-index and i10-index?” Design/methodology/approach...

...Susanne Mikki; Hemed Ali Al Ruwehy; Øyvind Liland Gjesdal; Marta Zygmuntowska Purpose The purpose of this paper is to compare the content of Web of Science (WoS) and Google Scholar (GS) by searching the interdisciplinary field of climate and ancient societies. The authors aim at analyzing...

... reviewed for us during this past year. Their diligence and good judgment has helped the editors more than words can describe. We would like to thank: Digital libraries Google Scholar Institutional repositories Metadata Search engine optimization Search engines ...

...Scott P. Pitol; Sandra L. De Groote Purpose – The growing dominance of Google Scholar (GS) as a first-stop resource for scholars and researchers demands investigation of its influence on citation patterns, freedom of information, and scholarly communication. The purpose of this paper is to break...

... Scholar’’ Kenning Arlitsch J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA Patrick S. O’Brien J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA Digital libraries Google Scholar Institutional...

...Kenning Arlitsch; Patrick S. O'Brien Purpose Google Scholar has difficulty indexing the contents of institutional repositories, and the authors hypothesize the reason is that most repositories use Dublin Core, which cannot express bibliographic citation information adequately for academic papers...