Google Scholar
• Includes conference proceedings, books, book chapters, academic websites, etc
• Searches full text of articles from multiple publisher’s websites
CAVEAT…
• Sources of information are mysterious, and may not always be from peer-reviewed sources, i.e. Sources of citations may not be from scholarly works
• The disclaimer Google Scholar uses on every page: "Dates and citation counts are estimated and are determined automatically by a computer program".
In order to create/obtain an h-Index from Google Scholar, the author must have created a Google Scholar profile account and have claimed their citations from within Google Scholar.
Enter the name of an author into the Google Scholar search box.
To obtain a sample profile for an author with a known Google Scholar profile, enter the name: Gunther Eysenbach