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All Things Google: Google Scholar Citations

August 11, 2011, 8:00 am

By Amy Cavender

CitashunsIt’s no great secret that many of us here at ProfHacker are heavy users of All Things Google. One of the services I particularly like is Google Scholar; I find it a good starting point for literature searches, and appreciate the ability to set up alerts. Plus, Zotero works very well with it.

A few weeks ago, Google introduced a service that should make Scholar even more useful: Google Scholar Citations. It provides a very handy way to keep track of citations to your work, and you have a fair amount of control over how it handles your work—including the ability to edit and add works manually. (This is good, since the service is far from perfect yet; I can see that I’m going to have to correct an entry or two and add a couple manually.)

Once your publications are added, your profile will look something like the sample below:

Google Scholar Citations

As you can see, you get a graph of your citation metrics, and a nicely-formatted list of your publications. Clicking on a number in the “Cited by” column brings up a list of articles that cite that particular work—so you can readily see not only how often your work is being cited, but also by whom. Very handy.

At the moment, Google Scholar Citations is in a limited launch and is not accepting new users, though you can sign up to be notified when it’s more widely available.

If you’ve had the chance to experiment with Google Scholar Citations, please share your impressions in the comments.

[Lead image: Creative Commons licensed Flickr photo by nirak. Image in body of post: Creative Commons licensed Flickr photo by ajc1]

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  • cesarep

    Management in Higher Education is outmoded and out-of-step with our changing world and this is a typical example.
    It is because higher education was built for “perpetuation” and not “innovation.”  Higher Education’s management has been perpetuating the same disfunctions over the last 100 years which is leading to its own demise. Higher Education is far too valuable to allow itself to die a corrupt death. Higher Education needs people with the “courage and character,” i.e. the leadership to stand up and challenge the perpetual status quo. 
    Higher Education has created a workforce of unimaginative, timid, co-dependents whose wasted energy on their own self-serving careers has lead us to this corrupt and dysfunctional state of affairs. 
    I visualize a future workplace environment that is more ethical and less mercenary, more brave and less fearful, a climate where contributions count more than credentials, where every idea has a chance to be realized on equal footing regardless of position or title, an environment that is more energizing and less stultifying!
    I believe this change will not come from central administration or from one individual but from a group of individuals from the courageous worker fringe who are willing stand up to the status quo and provide solutions that are more democratic, more ethical, and most of all, serve the greater good more effectively quided by principles of transparency and accountability.  It’s time we all become more responsible for our culture and its future.  We need to build higher education organizations, as Gary hamel says, that are “built for the future and built for human beings!” 
        

  • cesarep

    Management in Higher Education is outmoded and out-of-step with our changing world and this is a typical example. It is because higher education was built for “perpetuation” and not “innovation.”  Higher Education’s management has been perpetuating the same dysfunctions over the last 100 years which is leading to its own demise. Higher Education is far too valuable to allow itself to die a corrupt death. Higher Education needs people with the “courage and character,” i.e. the leadership to stand up and challenge the perpetual status quo.  Higher Education has created a workforce of unimaginative, timid, co-dependents whose wasted energy on their own self-serving careers has lead us to this corrupt and dysfunctional state of affairs. I visualize a future workplace environment that is more ethical and less mercenary, more brave and less fearful, a climate where contributions count more than credentials, where every idea has a chance to be realized on equal footing regardless of position or title, an environment that is more energizing and less stultifying! I believe this change will not come from central administration or from one individual but from a group of individuals from the courageous worker fringe who are willing stand up to the status quo and provide solutions that are more democratic, more ethical, and most of all, serve the greater good more effectively quided by principles of transparency and accountability.  It’s time we all become more responsible for our culture and its future.  We need to build higher education organizations, as Gary hamel says, that are “built for the future and built for human beings!”

  • http://www.facebook.com/char.mentor Char Psi Tutor Mentor

    Awsome~ I have only one publication so far and it is not peer reviewed~ I better get jiggy with it!

  • DF

    Is it merely a rip-off of Anne-Wil Harzing’s Publish or Perish?

  • collpres

    I suppose it would nice to know if those citing our work had actually read it…

  • katendej

    Very empowering.

  • acavender

    A quick look suggests that there are some similarities; at least, Publish or Perish makes use of Google Scholar information.

    I’ll have to take a closer look at Hazring’s software, which I hadn’t heard of before. Thanks for the tip!

  • DF

    It has many more indexes than the usual h-index.  Best of all, it’s free.  I use it all the time.

  • mbelvadi

    The entertainment industries are notorious in their rhetoric for completely ignoring Fair Use and other exemptions to the exclusive rights in US copyright law – they talk as if the copyright holder has absolute and unlimited power to control every use of their work no matter what. I’d love to see their simplistic rhetoric stand in front of classes full of America’s top law students, and hear the students shred them to legal pieces in the Q&A. If they weren’t humbled before they walked in, they would be after that!

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