Academic Publishing, Anne-Wil Harzing, bibliometrics, citation analysis, Citations, digital scholarship, Featured, free, google scholar, h-index, ISI, Journal Quality List, metrics, Peter Jacso, Publish or Perish, social sciences and humanities citations, Web of Science
Google Scholar is a serious alternative to Web of Science
Many bibliometricians and university administrators remain wary of Google Scholar citation data, preferring “the gold standard” of Web of Science instead. Anne-Wil Harzing, who developed the Publish or Perish software that uses Google Scholar data, here sets out to challenge some of the misconceptions about this data source and explain why it offers a serious alternative to Web of Science. […]