LibGuides: Citation Searching to Support Your Research: Google Scholar

Aspects of Citation Searching on Google Scholar

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".

Google Scholar and the h-Index

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.

Create an Account/Profile at Google Scholar
To obtain your h-Index from Google Scholar, you must first create an account/profile with Google Scholar. Google Scholar will walk you through the process.
The pros and cons of computing the h-Index using Google Scholar (2008)
Author Peter Jacso points out some of the positives, perils, and pitfalls of using the h-Index via Google Scholar.

Sample Author Profile with Citations and h-Index in Google Scholar

Google Scholar Support Resources

Overview of Searching on Google Scholar
Searching Google Scholar
Tips and tricks on how to search Google Scholar
Google Scholar Coverage
Notes the coverage of Google Scholar, and that it 'indexes' articles, not journals.

Google Scholar: Search for Author Name

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