Provider: Ingenta Connect
Database: Ingenta Connect
Content: application/x-research-info-systems
TY - ABST
AU - Jacsó, Péter
TI - Google Scholar Author Citation Tracker: is it too little, too late?
JO - Online Information Review
PY - 2012-02-17T00:00:00///
VL - 36
IS - 1
SP - 126
EP - 141
KW - Internet
KW - Search engines
KW - Research work
N2 -
Purpose ‐ Seven years after the release of Google Scholar in 2004, it was enhanced by a new module, the Google Scholar Author Citation Tracker (GSACT), currently a small subset of the complete Google Scholar (GS) database. The aim of this paper is to focus on this enhancement.
Design/methodology/approach ‐ The paper discusses the Google Scholar Author Citation Tracker, its features, potential benefits and problems. Findings ‐ GSACT allows registered users to create and edit their scientific profiles and some bibliometric indicators, such
as the h-index, total citation counts, and the i10 index. These metrics are provided for the entire academic career of authors and for the most recent five-year period. The new module also offers some long overdue essential options, such as sorting result lists of the documents by their publication
year, title, and the citations received Originality/value ‐ The paper shows that, at present, GSACT may be too little, too late. However, with an extension of the current clean-up project it could possibly become a really scholarly resource in the long run.
UR - https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/mcb/264/2012/00000036/00000001/art00008
M3 - doi:10.1108/14684521211209581
UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/14684521211209581
ER -