English - Google Scholar Metrics (2024)

FAQs

What is metrics in Google Scholar? ›

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.

Scientists with High H-Indexes

At the time of writing, the highest score recorded by Google Scholar is 300, by researcher Ronald C Kessler from Harvard University.

The H-index is displayed in the "Cited by" box on the right hand of your profile page. Also displayed are the total number of citations that all of the articles in your profile have received, and the "i10-index", which shows how many of your articles have received at least 10 citations.

i10-index: developed by Google Scholar, the author i10-index is the number of articles published by an author that have received at least 10 citations.

However, an h-index of Three and Five can be set as standard for assistant professor, 8 to 12 for associate professor and h-index of 15 to 20 is a good standard for appointment to full professor.

With 10 or more citations, your work is now in the top 24% of the most cited work worldwide; this increased to the top 1.8% as you reach 100 or more citations. Main take home message: the average citation per manuscript is clearly below 10!

The average number of publications when including all researchers was 0.48. Mean H-index at the year of obtaining the PhD degree in each section is presented in Fig 3C. Average values varied between 0.87 and 3.72.

According to Hirsch, a person with 20 years of research experience with an h-index of 20 is considered good, 40 is great, and 60 is remarkable. But let's go into more detail and have a look at what a good h-index means in terms of your field of research and stage of career.

For example, an author with only one publication can have a maximum h-index of 1 (if their publication has 1 or more citations). On the other hand, an author with many publications, each with only 1 citation, would also have an h-index of 1.

Publishing a lot of highly cited articles will increase your h-index. On the other hand, getting a lot of citations on only one or two papers will not give you a high h-index. For example, if you have an h-index of 7, it means that you have published 7 papers, each of which has been cited at least 7 times.

How do I improve my Google Scholar score? ›

Add all articles that you have written; keep in mind your articles may be in several different groups, and some groups may occasionally include articles by several different authors. If you publish under several different names, you may need to do several searches to add all your articles.

Google Scholar usually provides the highest h-index compared to other sources. This is because Google Scholar indexes web pages not organized collections of article citations, like databases. This means Google Scholar: Counts all publications, including books.

The i10-index is a simpler metric introduced by Google Scholar. Unlike the H-index, which considers the total number of citations across all publications, the i10-index focuses specifically on the number of publications that have received at least 10 citations each.

h5-index is the h-index for articles published in the last 5 complete years. It is the largest number h such that h articles published in 2019-2023 have at least h citations each.hide. h5-median for a publication is the median number of citations for the articles that make up its h5-index.hide. Publication.

Hence, a g-index of 10 indicates that the top 10 publications of an author have been cited at least 100 times (10²), a g-index of 20 indicates that the top 20 publications of an author have been cited 400 times (20²).

Metrics are quantitative measurements. The metric Sessions is the total number of sessions. The metric Pages/Session is the average number of pages viewed per session.

They are quantitative indicators or measures that provide some evidence of the impact of a research output. A research output can be a journal, a journal article, a book, book chapter or the overall research productivity.

Scholarly metrics are a way for the impact of an article, author, or journal to be measured quantitatively. The scholarly communication community acknowledges that while these metrics are flawed, they are, to date, the only way impact is being measured. A new approach to assessing scholarly work is required.

Metrics are quantitative measures that reveal important information about your business processes and their performance. Every team has specific metrics they evaluate and those used by accounting might differ from those used by your operations team.