Equality of Google Scholar with Web of Science Citations: Case of Malaysian Engineering Highly Cited Papers | Zendy

Nader Ale Ebrahim | Zendy; Hadi Salehi | Zendy; Mohamed Amin Embi | Zendy; Mahmoud Danaee | Zendy; Marjan Mohammadjafari | Zendy; Azam Zavvari | Zendy; Masoud Shakiba | Zendy; Masoomeh Shahbazi-Moghadam | Zendy

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Equality of Google Scholar with Web of Science Citations: Case of Malaysian Engineering Highly Cited Papers

Author(s) -

Nader Ale Ebrahim,

Hadi Salehi,

Mohamed Amin Embi,

Mahmoud Danaee,

Marjan Mohammadjafari,

Azam Zavvari,

Masoud Shakiba,

Masoomeh Shahbazi-Moghadam

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

modern applied science

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1913-1852

pISSN - 1913-1844

DOI - 10.5539/mas.v8n5p63

Subject(s) - citation , transparency (behavior) , computer science , funding agency , web of science , field (mathematics) , citation analysis , library science , world wide web , mathematics , political science , medline , law , public relations , pure mathematics , computer security

This study uses citation analysis from two citation tracking databases, Google Scholar (GS) and ISI Web of Science, in order to test the correlation between them and examine the effect of the number of paper versions on citations. The data were retrieved from the Essential Science Indicators and Google Scholar for 101 highly cited papers from Malaysia in the field of engineering. An equation for estimating the citation in ISI based on Google scholar is offered. The results show a significant and positive relationship between both citation in Google Scholar and ISI Web of Science with the number of versions. This relationship is higher between versions and ISI citations (r = 0.395, p<0.01) than between versions and Google Scholar citations (r = 0.315, p<0.01). Free access to data provided by Google Scholar and the correlation to get ISI citation which is costly, allow more transparency in tenure reviews, funding agency and other science policy, to count citations and analyze scholars' performance more precisely. © 2014 by the author(s).

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