Saturday 18 March 2017

Google Scholar Finds and Counts Citations in Blogs But not Books: Why?

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The article in question is: SPINACH, IRON and POPEYE: Ironic lessons from biochemistry and history on the importance of healthy eating, healthy scepticismand adequate citation Here

You can see the citations count for it in my Google Citations account Here

This finding proves just how influential IJC blogs are in terms of gaming Google Scholar.

Within days anything cited in the IJC is recorded by Google Scholar. Bit this case reveals also that Google Scholar is massively undercounting citations to work in published books.

The conclusion is surely that Google Scholar is not much good as an indicator of your impact if the publication citing you in relation to your orignal published work does not include a full scholarly reference to your publication source.

The IDD method can help you find where you have been cited in the publication record. What Google needs to do now is to use it in its algorithm. On which note, I suggest that Google first take control of its RankBrain AI robot that is currently really screwing things up on Google searches. See my blog on the facts about that problem. : https://www.bestthinking.com/thinkers/science/social_sciences/sociology/mike-sutton?tab=blog&blogpostid=24126

Reference 

Sutton, M. (2010) Spinach, Iron and Popeye: Ironic lessons from biochemistry and history on the importance of healthy eating, healthy scepticism and adequate citation. Internet Journal of Criminology. Click Here

Did you see what I just did there? 😎

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