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: Received: 14 June 2017 / Approved: 14 June 2017 / Online: 14 June 2017 (06:07:12 CEST)
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Mohammadjafari, M.; Salehi, H.; Bakhtiyari, K.; Ale Ebrahim, N.; Danaee, M.; Shakiba, M.; Shahbazi-Moghadam, M.; Zavvari, A. Relationship of Google Scholar Versions and Paper Citations. Preprints2017, 2017060062. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201706.0062.v1
Mohammadjafari, M.; Salehi, H.; Bakhtiyari, K.; Ale Ebrahim, N.; Danaee, M.; Shakiba, M.; Shahbazi-Moghadam, M.; Zavvari, A. Relationship of Google Scholar Versions and Paper Citations. Preprints 2017, 2017060062. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201706.0062.v1
Mohammadjafari, M.; Salehi, H.; Bakhtiyari, K.; Ale Ebrahim, N.; Danaee, M.; Shakiba, M.; Shahbazi-Moghadam, M.; Zavvari, A. Relationship of Google Scholar Versions and Paper Citations. Preprints2017, 2017060062. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201706.0062.v1
APA Style
Mohammadjafari, M., Salehi, H., Bakhtiyari, K., Ale Ebrahim, N., Danaee, M., Shakiba, M., Shahbazi-Moghadam, M., & Zavvari, A. (2017). Relationship of Google Scholar Versions and Paper Citations. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201706.0062.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Mohammadjafari, M., Masoomeh Shahbazi-Moghadam and Azam Zavvari. 2017 "Relationship of Google Scholar Versions and Paper Citations" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201706.0062.v1
Abstract
The number of citations that a paper has received is the most commonly used indicator to measure the quality of research. Researchers, journals, and universities want to receive more citations for their scholarly publications to increase their h-index, impact factor, and ranking respectively. In this paper, we tried to analyses the effect of the number of available Google Scholar versions of a paper on citations count. We analyzed 10,162 papers which are published in Scopus database in year 2010 by Malaysian top five universities. Then we developed a software to collect the number of citations and versions of each paper from Google Scholar automatically. The result of spearman correlation coefficient revealed that there is positive significant association between the number of Google Scholar versions of a paper and the number of times a paper has been cited.
Keywords
h-index; citations; published version; Scopus database; highly cited paper; bibliometrics
Subject
Social Sciences, Library and Information Sciences
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