Comments on: Google Scholar citations http://archosaurmusings.wordpress.com/2012/05/04/google-scholar-citations/ Tue, 21 May 2013 17:49:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: It’s *nice* to get ignored again and again and again – NOT! | dinosaurpalaeo http://archosaurmusings.wordpress.com/2012/05/04/google-scholar-citations/#comment-19168 Fri, 08 Jun 2012 19:19:52 +0000 http://archosaurmusings.wordpress.com/?p=7398#comment-19168 [...] and hiring committees count them. There’s various services that do the counting, and although some do it very badly indeed, many people who will make important decisions about my future as a palaeontologist look at these [...]

]]> By: David Hone http://archosaurmusings.wordpress.com/2012/05/04/google-scholar-citations/#comment-18759 Sun, 13 May 2012 12:17:03 +0000 http://archosaurmusings.wordpress.com/?p=7398#comment-18759 Interesting to note, disturbing in fact. Though of course that’s just a single example, so hardly a wealth of data to draw a lot of conclusions from – I suspect it’s rather a rare problem!

]]> By: John Scanlon, FCD http://archosaurmusings.wordpress.com/2012/05/04/google-scholar-citations/#comment-18758 Sun, 13 May 2012 12:12:43 +0000 http://archosaurmusings.wordpress.com/?p=7398#comment-18758 According to GS, my most-cited paper is a 2006 multi-author tabulation of the Riversleigh fossil faunas, at 96 cites. Seems like it should be used a lot too, so it’s tempting to assume it’s right.

Problem is, by my tally, those 96 include only 25 palaeontology/vert-zoology papers published in or later than 2006, plus:

2 zoology papers from 2001 (related topic, same journal and shared authors) and 2004 (tenuously related subject); and

69 items dating back to 1980 with no connection to the topic of our paper, but all apparently relating to industrial design. … What these share is citation of a 1979 article by B. Archer, which GS thinks is just another version of M. Archer et al. (2006).

It may be possible to fix this. But if I were applying for a research job or grant, what incentive would there be to do so?

It would be nice to have more cites in blog posts, though.

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