Universities through the eyes of bibliographic databases: a retroactive growth comparison of Google Scholar,Scopus and Web of Science

Scientometrics - The purpose of this study is to ascertain the suitability of GS’s url-based method as a valid approximation of universities’ academic output measures, taking into...     

Do ResearchGate Scores create ghost academic reputations?

Scientometrics - Technology is a complex system with technologies relating to each other in a space that can be mapped as a network. The technology network’s structure can reveal properties...     

A novel method for depicting academic disciplines through Google Scholar Citations: The case of Bibliometrics

Scientometrics - This article describes a procedure to generate a snapshot of the structure of a specific scientific community and their outputs based on the information available in Google Scholar...     

Coverage of highly-cited documents in Google Scholar,Web of Science,and Scopus: a multidisciplinary comparison

Scientometrics - This study explores the extent to which bibliometric indicators based on counts of highly-cited documents could be affected by the choice of data source. The initial hypothesis is...