https://scholar.googleblog.com/2019/07/2019-scholar-metrics-released.html
“This release covers articles published in 2014–2018 and includes citations from all articles that were indexed in Google Scholar as of July 2019”.
https://scholar.googleblog.com/2019/07/2019-scholar-metrics-released.html
“This release covers articles published in 2014–2018 and includes citations from all articles that were indexed in Google Scholar as of July 2019”.
It appears the ranking calculations by Google leave something to be desired:
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From: Isaksson, Eva via PAMNet
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2019 at 18:30
Subject: [Pamnet] Google Scholar journal rankings hit A&A
To: pamnet@listmgr.nrao.edu
Hi all,
I did not see this reported here yet:
Google Scholar does journal ranking based on h5-index. However, the method they use is prone to errors, resulting in recent, a significant drop for e.g. Astronomy and Astrophysics.
Read more here:
https://twitter.com/GScholarDigest/status/1161155434000060416
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2019/08/aa36429-19/aa36429-19.html
– Eva
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Eva Isaksson
Information Specialist, Research Services / Metrics
Helsinki University Library
PO Box 53, 00014 University of Helsinki
http://www.helsinki.fi/library/
orcid.org/0000-0002-1488-5757
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