Google Scholar Metrics provide an easy way for authors to quickly gauge the visibility and influence of recent articles in scholarly publications. Scholar Metrics summarize recent citations to many publications, to help authors as they consider where to publish their new research.
To get started, you can browse the top 100 publications in several languages, ordered by their five-year h-index and h-median metrics. To see which articles in a publication were cited the most and who cited them, click on its h-index number to view the articles as well as the citations underlying the metrics.
You can also explore publications in research areas of your interest. To browse publications in a broad area of research, select one of the areas in the left column. For example: Engineering & Computer Science or Health & Medical Sciences.
To explore specific research areas, select one of the broad areas, click on the "Subcategories" link and then select one of the options. For example: Databases & Information Systems or Development Economics.
Browsing by research area is, as yet, available only for English publications. You can, of course, search for specific publications in all languages by words in their titles.
Scholar Metrics are currently based on Google Scholars Index as it was in July 2023.
Available Metrics
They display the h5-index and the h5-median for each included publication. They also display an entire h5-core of its articles, along with their citation counts, so that you can see which articles contribute to the h5-index. Click on the citation count for any article in the h5-core to see who cited it.
Institutional Profiles: When you are setting up your Google Scholar Profile be sure to add the correct Maynooth University Affiliation details to your GS profile so your profile will be included in the MU Institutional profile. If you already have a GS Profile check it to make sure your email and Affiliation are up to date. Search Google Scholar Profiles https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=maynooth&btnG=
Google Scholar Metrics currently cover articles published between 2018 and 2022, both inclusive. The metrics are based on citations from all articles that were indexed in Google Scholar in July 2023. This also includes citations from articles that are not themselves covered by Scholar Metrics.
Since Google Scholar indexes articles from a large number of websites, we can't always tell in which journal a particular article has been published. To avoid misidentification of publications, we have included only the following items:
Furthermore, we have specifically excluded the following items:
Overall, Scholar Metrics cover a substantial fraction of scholarly articles published in the last five years. However, they don't currently cover a large number of articles from smaller publications.
Source: Google Scholar Metrics Help
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