26.02.2019
Can Google Scholar and Mendeley help to assess the scholarly impacts of dissertations?
« Dissertations can be the single most important scholarly outputs of junior researchers. Whilst sets of journal articles are often evaluated with the help of citation counts from the Web of Science or Scopus, these do not index dissertations and so their impact is hard to assess. In response, this article introduces a new multistage method to extract Google Scholar citation counts for large collections of dissertations from repositories indexed by Google. The method was used to extract Google Scholar citation counts for 77,884 American doctoral dissertations from 2013-2017 via ProQuest, with a precision of over 95%. (…) »
source > arxiv.org, Kousha, K. & Thelwall, M., 2019, arXiv:1902.08746 [cs.DL]
