Google Scholar is a global scientific metrics platform from Google, which is comparable to abstracting giants Scopus and Web of Science in terms of the amount of scientific literature it hosts. Recently, the service has become in demand in broad academic circles around the world, and the scientometric metrics implemented on the platform are an effective tool for assessing the productivity of a scientist's scientific activity.
Google Scholar's key scientometric metrics
Key Google Scholar metrics for evaluating the effectiveness and impact of scholars and their scholarly publications:
Citation Index
Citation Index is the total number of citations of all publications of an author by other scientists. The indicator was first proposed by American scientist Eugene Garfield in 1960. The metric demonstrates the scientific importance of a scientist's publications based on the number of citations of his works.
The Hirsch Index is one of the main scientometric indicators proposed in 2005 by Jorge Hirsch as an analytical tool for assessing the citation of an author, a group of scientists, and scientific journals. In addition, the metric is used in the international ranking of countries for independent assessment of scientific activity of individual states.
Hirsch index formula for a scientist: h-index = h if the author has h publications cited at least h times.
I10-index
I10-index is an indicator used only in the Google Scholar scientometric database to assess the publication activity of individual authors, a group of scientists, scientific organizations, and publications.
The i10-index is the number of publications that have been cited at least 10 times.
How to improve an author's scholarly metrics in Google Scholar?
Top 7 recommendations on how to improve author metrics in Google Scholar:
- Publish research on topics that are relevant, interesting to the academic community. Stories without scientific novelty will not have the support of the academic society in the form of citations.
- Publish scientific papers in international reputable journals indexed by Scopus, Web of Science, Google Scholar database. The more influential the publication, the higher the scientific interest in it, the larger the academic target audience. As a consequence, the author's scientometric citation rates will also be high.
- Choose a publication that is suitable in terms of subject matter. This will increase the likelihood that your work will be noticed and cited by colleagues.
- Co-author articles with other researchers. This will increase the visibility and citation of your work.
- Publish papers in open access journals. Your articles will receive increased visibility to the international academic community.
- Take part in international and national academic events. Attend webinars, seminars, and conferences to gain new scientific connections and publicize the scholar's research.
- Update your Google Scholar, ResearchGate, Academia.edu, and LinkedIn profiles. Share links to your publications so that more scholars can read your work and cite it in their scientific papers.
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