Google Scholar Metrics

Vickie Kline

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Google Scholar Metrics

I heard rumblings about this. Will be interesting to see if scholars agree with Google's algorithms for this...

Google starts ranking journals - Web Exclusive Article - Significance Magazine »

The main flaw with the impact factor is that it is basically an arithmetic mean and, consequently, sensitive to outliers. Like a megastar that pulls all the lesser celestial bodies towards itself, one...