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By: James Neville Thompson.

James Neville Thompson. — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 02:40:50 +0000

As a retired scientist (and Google scholar whatever that is), I use Google to track continuation of my previous work. However, I was shocked today when Google found several of my research papers attributed to another scientist with a similar name in something described as Microsoft Academic Search. Actually I recognised this fine scientist (working in a completely different field thousands of miles away) from years of reading our adjacent records in Citation Index which was published by people who knew what they were doing. I assume that the Academic Search is lazy and based only on names and does not include the institution, for example, as part of identification. The data & charts are obviously misleading and are thus worse than useless concerning scientists with common names. Self citations are not an issue; papers are published to convey information to active scientists not satisfy statisticians. I have often found the publication of instalments unavoidable. I have also published findings in books ( from conferences) and again in less or greater detail in a journal. Both are needed by scientists active in the field. As a reviewer I would turn down a duplicate paper but I have never seen a true clone in a scientific journal.

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By: John Kirriemuir

John Kirriemuir — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 17:04:18 +0000

I’ve had a similar situation to Andy, but then two papers that had nothing to do with me – and didn’t have my name on it, though a very similar one – just vanished when I next checked.

The list for mine still has several papers on it that I wouldn’t consider papers or articles. It’s a very, very, broad definition that Google uses (similar, sort of, to the ridiculously broad definition of ‘book’ that the Kobo uses in its ‘million free ebooks’ offer).

It is a useful service in some ways, though. I was a bit stunned, and initially scared, to find a report I’d completely forgotten about years ago has been cited 314 times. It’s fun quickly finding where, and how, it’s been cited.

Also, unexpectedly, it’s been more useful than linkedin or facebook (especially) for finding several academics from eLib days (mid nineties) who lost touch with some time ago. Another person search facility, this time weighted to people who have written academic-y articles. If we do a 20th anniversary reunion in 2005, scholar citation could be a useful tool in pulling a crowd together.

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By: Manolis Mavrikis

Manolis Mavrikis — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:22:00 +0000

Isn’t it an issue that citations do not exclude self-citations?

By: Andy Mitchell

Andy Mitchell — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:11:06 +0000

I just had a look at it and searched for my name. What came back included 5 papers accredited to me but were nothing to do with me. To my knowledge I’ve only had 4 papers published (more if you include posters for conferences and presentations about research), all concerning or relating to the ‘student voice’, so I was somewhat surprised to learn I had also written about Northern Irish cattle populations.

Of the four that I was involved in, only one was included on the list. Therefore, I would suggest that the site be used bearing in mind that it is still rather flawed.

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