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2015 Scholar Metrics released
Thursday, June 25, 2015
Scholar Metrics provide an easy way for authors to quickly gauge the visibility and influence of recent articles in scholarly publications. Today, we are releasing the
2015 version of Scholar Metrics
. This release is based on citations from all articles that were indexed in Google Scholar as of mid-June 2015 and covers articles published in 2010–2014.
Scholar Metrics include journal articles from websites that follow our
inclusion guidelines
, selected conference articles in Computer Science & Electrical Engineering and preprints from arXiv, SSRN, NBER, and RePEc. As in previous releases, publications with fewer than 100 articles in the covered period, or publications that received no citations are not included.
You can browse publications in specific categories such as
African Studies & History
,
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
or
Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
as well as broad areas like
Business, Economics & Management
or
Chemical & Material Sciences
. You will see the top 20 publications ordered by their five-year h-index and h-median metrics. Since articles published in 2009 are not included anymore, most publications have a renewed h-core (the top h most cited articles) that you can see by clicking on the h-index number.
Scholar Metrics also includes a large number of publications beyond those listed on the per-category pages. You can find these by typing words from the title in the search box, e.g., [
stem cells
], [
enfermagem
], or [
conservation
].
Fun fact: while computing the 2015 metrics, we saw over 9,000 different ways to refer to the
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
and over 4,000 ways to refer to the
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
.
For more details, see the
Scholar Metrics help page
.
Posted by: Helder Suzuki, Software Engineer
Blast from the past: reprint request postcards
Monday, January 26, 2015
Recently, I spent a few days organizing my uncle's papers. He was a graduate student in the 60s and a faculty member for the rest of his life. Going over his papers was like walking through the history of scholarly communication. One of the fascinating things I found were pre-printed postcards for requesting article reprints.
Each institution printed these postcards for its researchers. They included the institution address and a template request. To request a reprint, you would fill in the address of the author and some information about the paper you were interested in and drop it in mail. And hope for a response in six to ten weeks. Here are a couple of requests that my uncle received.
Much has changed since those days. Journal archives have moved online and email zips across the world in seconds. It is hard to imagine today how researchers of the day moved the mountains that they did.
Posted by: Anurag Acharya, Software Engineer
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