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23 Sep 2020
Comparison of coverage in Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic, Scopus, Dimensions, Web of Science, and OpenCitations' COCI. Now peer-reviewed and available at Scientometrics doi.org/10.1007/s11192-020-0… open access version available at arxiv.org/abs/2004.14329
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Not just Google Scholar's Digest retweeted
3 Oct 2022
October 2022 marks the 16th anniversary of the free Publish or Perish software. For details of 15 use cases and some of the challenges see: linkedin.com/posts/anne-wil-…
@GScholarDigest @Write4Research @LISResearch @LISResearchAu @WomeninAIB @AIB_World @bam_ac_uk @researchwhisper
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30 Jun 2022
Estamos de acuerdo, Google Scholar no evalúa la calidad, solo presenta los datos que recopila automáticamente para que tú tomes una decisión. Como dices, hay que molestarse en ir más allá del indicador y ver lo que hay detrás
30 Jun 2022
Vean las listas con resultados inverosímiles. Se mezclan revistas de calidad con otras que, si se molestan en ver artículos, son en su mayoría self report studies, revisiones, hagiografías y exégesis. Google Scholar no evalúa la calidad, sólo aspectos formales Son autómatas 2/3
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29 Jun 2022
The new edition of Google's Scholar Metrics is now live scholar.google.com/citations…
29 Jun 2022
Another Summer classic, the Scholar Metrics, has been released @GScholarDigest
scholar.googleblog.com/2022/…
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23 Jun 2022
Please consider taking part in this survey
22 Jun 2022
Do you work in Higher Education, and use online databases such as Google Scholar to search for literature? I would like to hear from you! Please complete a short (15 mins) survey: cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/j… - pls RT and share. Thanks!
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Not just Google Scholar's Digest retweeted
8 May 2022
How I spent my last summer?
With tens of thousands of manual queries for this 63-pager: Search where you will find most: Comparing the disciplinary coverage of 56 bibliographic databases doi.org/10.1007/s11192-022-0…🧵
#systematicreview #evidencesynthesis #medlibs #metaanalysis #search
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We would love to meet you at @sti2022grx to discuss all the recent developments in research metadata: @OpenAlex_org @i4oc_org @opencitations @open_abstracts @DSDimensions @TheLensOrg @internetarchive's #Refcat... CALL FOR PAPERS is now open! sti2022.org/ #STI2022GRX
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Description of the Special Track: digibug.ugr.es/bitstream/han… cc @zaidachinchilla @BenjaminVargas @mjcobomartin
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New link for the description of the special track: digibug.ugr.es/bitstream/han…
Not just Google Scholar's Digest retweeted
13 Jan 2022
PoP v8 new features (2) #popversion8 offers a 7th data source: PubMed, to facilitate #covid19 searches. For details see: harzing.com/blog/2022/01/pop…
@LISResearch @LISResearchAu @Write4Research @AIB_World @MDXLibrary @TheBibliomagic @aarontay @GScholarDigest @FakeLibStats @MsPhelps
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Not just Google Scholar's Digest retweeted
2 Nov 2021
This is a fantastic post from @aarontay, really good for helping understand all the emerging open discovery tools and sources incl. @CrossrefOrg musingsaboutlibrarianship.bl…
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"in 2019 COCI found 47% of the citations available in Web of Science, whereas now open citation data sources find 87% of the WoS citations." For Scopus the figure was 44% to 81%! Shows how much difference Elsevier joining made. (1)
27 Oct 2021
Coverage of open citation data approaches parity with Web of Science and Scopus #OpenAccessWeek @CrossrefOrg @opencitations opencitations.wordpress.com/…
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27 Oct 2021
Coverage of open citation data approaches parity with Web of Science and Scopus #OpenAccessWeek @CrossrefOrg @opencitations opencitations.wordpress.com/…
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25 Oct 2021
Henk F. Moed has died. Henk was an excellent scientist and a better person
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25 Oct 2021
Henk F. Moed, a fruitful scientific life dedicated to the study of research assessment, scientometrics, informetrics and research policy
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Not just Google Scholar's Digest retweeted
20 Oct 2021
What do people want most from Google Scholar? API access? Better filters? Other?
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26 Sep 2021
A Google Scholar trick - combining citations from multiple items and filtering by keyword in a single search! by @aarontay musingsaboutlibrarianship.bl…
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Not just Google Scholar's Digest retweeted
28 Aug 2021
Citation overlap in Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic, Scopus, Dimensions, Web of Science, and COCI albertomartin.shinyapps.io/c… by @albertomartin @GScholarDigest
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Not just Google Scholar's Digest retweeted
16 Jun 2021
Last week @OurResearch_org, supported by @ArcadiaFund, announced launch of @OpenAlex_org as replacement for @MSFTAcademic; importantly, OpenAlex won't provide complete data for publishers that don't support #I4OA and don't submit abstracts to @CrossrefOrg blog.ourresearch.org/openale…
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15 Jun 2021
Microsoft Academic is closing down at the end of this year. Read about the replacement being developed by @OurResearch_org
15 Jun 2021
Microsoft Academic Graph (@MSFTAcademic) is being discontinued. What’s next? My latest for @NatureIndex: natureindex.com/news-blog/mi… @LudoWaltman @Microsoft @jasonpriem @OurResearch_org @FrodeOpdahl @Max_Mosterd
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31 May 2021
ResearchGate and Google Scholar: How much do they differ in publications, citations and different metrics and why? arxiv.org/abs/2105.13602 by @vivekks12 @satyaswarup98 et al.
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