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he is working in or his publications are
in a different language then English
(LOTE- Languages Other Than
English) or his publications are only
books or papers in books.
Although from this point of view,
Google Scholar has better performance
than Web of Science it has no performance
in taking quoting from books or books’
chapters.
Measuring the quoting in Social
Sciences and Humanist Sciences they are
underestimated because they are published
in LOTE - Language Other Then English
and in books’ chapters more than Precise
Sciences.
Google Scholar provides more quotes
than ISI but not in all domains. Both soft
are covered Social, Humanist and
Engineering sciences with quotes in books,
proceedings of conferences and a large
amount of journals. Natural Sciences and
Health Sciences are well represented in ISI
and subsequently Google Scholar cannot
provide more quotes. In addition, journals
are not generally covering Google Scholar.
This is the reason way quoting in this
domains can be smaller then in ISI
(Harzing A.-W., 2008).
As recommendation, Google Scholar
can be preferable in the following
domains:
a) Business, Administration, Finance &
Economics;
b) Engineering, Computer Science &
Mathematics;
c) Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities.
Better, is recommended to processed
this analysis in parallel and comparative
with Scopus and Web of Science.
Hirsh (Hirsch, 2005) suggests h Index
as a criterion to quantify the scientific
impact of an author as following: a
researcher has h Index for his Np
publications if he has at least h quotes for
each one and no more than h quotes for
each one of the others (Np - h) papers. This
new indicator for measuring personal
scientific results was quickly considered
by informatics’ specialists and
bibliometrics’ researchers.
In the specific literature (Borgman,
1990) the specialists found approximate 30
publications referral to h Index in one year
after Hirsh paper. Also, there were a lot of
comments, critics and an evaluation
regarding h index and was revealed that H
index is less sensitive in the most quoted
references in a publications and is
dependent of the domain of science.
Different variants of Index were
designed in the aim to eliminate the
disadvantages: m coefficient, h index
(Hirsch, 2005), g index (Egghe L., 2006), h
index (2) (Kosmulski, 2006), A index (Jin,
2006), R index (Jin B., 2006), AR index
(Jin B. L., 2007) and hw index (Egghe L.
R., An h-index weighted by citation
impact, in press). The most representative
and productive score of researchers’
impact is weighted by h index and g index
and the papers’ impact is weighted by R
index and AR index.
To optimise the presented indexes was
suggested b index as indicator with two
values (suggesting to enclose or to disclose
the publications in weighted the author’s
productivity) and result of the researcher’s
characteristics. B index is based on value
comparing of researchers’ indexes.
2. The research in Google Scholar
scientometric database. The analyze of
history of medicine’s publications
A simple request for searching “History
of medicine” will arise 2810000 results.
The most quoted book is FH Garrison
: An introduction to
the history of medicine, 1914. This book
has 814 quotes.