Google starts ranking journals
Dear Members, Google has started ranking journals! Through its new service called '*Google Scholar Metrics*' currently it cover articles *published between 2007 and 2011*, both inclusive. The metrics are based on citations from *all articles* that were indexed in Google Scholar as of *April 1st, 2012*. This also includes citations from articles that are not themselves covered by Scholar Metrics. To know which are the top 20 journals in a particular subject area just type the subject. For example; Economics, Statistics, Mathematics etc using the following URL address. Once you get Google Scholar search box replace 'Economics' with name of other subject. http://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_venues&vq=economics To know more about this new service, please go through Google Scholar at: http://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/metrics.html Thanks to Garry for his posting on this. The full blog posting on Significance magazine is at: http://www.significancemagazine.org/details/webexclusive/1788885/Google-star... best Regards, Dr Shamprasad M. Pujar Deputy Librarian Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research Gen Vaidya Marg, Goregaon (East) MUMBAI-400 065, India Phone: ++91-22-2841 6547 E-mail: pujar@igidr.ac.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
This is very good but tricky. It searches for the word from the journal title to rank it. For example, I searched for a word 'resonance' and it ranked 16th among the 'resonance spectroscopy' journals! Actually the 'Resonance' published by IAS it has nothing to do with that resonance. Regards, - Murari Tapaswi -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] On Behalf Of Shamprasad Pujar Sent: Monday, April 16, 2012 10:16 AM To: lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] Google starts ranking journals Dear Members, Google has started ranking journals! Through its new service called '*Google Scholar Metrics*' currently it cover articles *published between 2007 and 2011*, both inclusive. The metrics are based on citations from *all articles* that were indexed in Google Scholar as of *April 1st, 2012*. This also includes citations from articles that are not themselves covered by Scholar Metrics. To know which are the top 20 journals in a particular subject area just type the subject. For example; Economics, Statistics, Mathematics etc using the following URL address. Once you get Google Scholar search box replace 'Economics' with name of other subject. http://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_venues&vq=economics To know more about this new service, please go through Google Scholar at: http://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/metrics.html Thanks to Garry for his posting on this. The full blog posting on Significance magazine is at: http://www.significancemagazine.org/details/webexclusive/1788885/Google-star... anking-journals.html best Regards, Dr Shamprasad M. Pujar Deputy Librarian Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research Gen Vaidya Marg, Goregaon (East) MUMBAI-400 065, India Phone: ++91-22-2841 6547 E-mail: pujar@igidr.ac.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
Thanks Dr. Pujar, for updating me on "Google Scholar Metrics" by your
recent posting.
However, there are some skepticism also about its worthiness as a method
of ranking the journals. Please visit
http://publishing.mathforge.org/discussion/87/is-google-scholar-metrics-for-...
for details. The date on which it was released, ie., April 1, adds further
doubts in the minds of the people. Moreover, the service does not have a
regular straight forward URL which creates more confusion.
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Shamprasad Pujar
Dear Members,
Google has started ranking journals!
Through its new service called '*Google Scholar Metrics*' currently it cover articles *published between 2007 and 2011*, both inclusive. The metrics are based on citations from *all articles* that were indexed in Google Scholar as of *April 1st, 2012*. This also includes citations from articles that are not themselves covered by Scholar Metrics.
To know which are the top 20 journals in a particular subject area just type the subject. For example; Economics, Statistics, Mathematics etc using the following URL address. Once you get Google Scholar search box replace 'Economics' with name of other subject.
http://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_venues&vq=economics
To know more about this new service, please go through Google Scholar at: http://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/metrics.html
Thanks to Garry for his posting on this. The full blog posting on Significance magazine is at:
http://www.significancemagazine.org/details/webexclusive/1788885/Google-star...
best Regards,
Dr Shamprasad M. Pujar Deputy Librarian Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research Gen Vaidya Marg, Goregaon (East) MUMBAI-400 065, India
Phone: ++91-22-2841 6547 E-mail: pujar@igidr.ac.in
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