Google Scholar and Sharelatex By: Ralucca Gera

By: Ralucca Gera, NPS

Excellence Through Knowledge ShareLaTeX

• Free: https://www.sharelatex.com?r=22fbe723&rm=d&rs=b • Documentation: https://www.sharelatex.com/learn/Help:Editing_pages

• “ShareLaTeX is a web-based real-time collaborative (like GoogleDocs) LaTeX editor (no need of LaTeX on your machine)” • “includes the editor, the project and document storage, and the backend LaTeX compiler” https://www.sharelatex.com/blog/2014/02/21/sharelatex-is-now-open-source.html

2 ShareLaTeX Templates

• Blog: https://www.sharelatex.com/blog/

• Templates for bibliographies: https://www.sharelatex.com/templates

• Templates for presentations: https://www.sharelatex.com/templates/presentati ons

3 Try it! You have an email with a link to a ShareLaTeX folder that I shared with you

4 GOOGLE SCHOLAR

Excellence Through Knowledge Google Scholar’s goals

• It enables searches of scholarly literature (scholarly publications, abstracts, books…) • Easy to use (same familiar search bar as Google, but results are limited to scholarly resources) • Contains links to the article’s PDF, Postscript, HTML format • Easy to view key information about articles: “cited by”, “related articles” and so on • Easy to export citation to LaTeX that can be used for any formatting style Historical background

–Google Scholar was released (in beta) in 2004 –Not the first freely available citation database (CiteSeer, Scirus, etc) –Not subject specific

Many use it as a viable alternative to ‘traditional’ citation databases such as Web of Science, because of – Easy of use (free, no account needed) – Extensive coverage of articles – Encodes wide range of metrics about articles/authors – However metrics are not perfect (data base is not complete, some duplications exist, algorithms used)

7 Features of Google Scholar

From http://scholar.google.com/scholar/about.html#about

• Searches all scholarly literature from one convenient place • Explores related works, citations, authors, and publications • Locates the complete document through your library or on the web • Keeps up with recent developments in any area of research • Checks who's citing your publications, creates a public author profile (if you get an account)

8 How are documents ranked?

From http://scholar.google.com/scholar/about.html#about

“Google Scholar aims to rank documents the way researchers do, • weighing the full text of each document, • where it was published, • who it was written by, • as well as how often and how recently it has been cited in other scholarly literature. “ 9 Use “Advanced Scholarly Search”

10 Use “Advanced Scholarly Search”

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http://scholar.google.com Google Scholar – Advanced Search

• Search keywords, authors, publications, years, etc. –Limit to “Engineering, Computer Science, and Mathematics” • Retrieve millions of results with options –Can be refine by “all articles” vs. “recent articles” What can you get?

• Quadsearch (Any browser): http://quadsearch.csd.auth.gr/ • Scholar H-index Calculator (Mozilla Firefox)

• Scholarometer (Mozilla Firefox/Google Chrome)

• Publish or Perish (Separate Application)

13 Click “Metrics” at the top (per journal)

14 H-index of a scientist from wikipedia

• “a scholar with an index •. of h has published h papers each of which has been cited in other papers at least h times”

15 Google Scholar Available Metrics

The next few slides have information from: http://scholar.google.com/intl/en- US/scholar/metrics.html#metrics •The h-index of a publication is the largest number h such that at least h articles in that publication were cited at least h times each. For example, a publication with five articles cited by, respectively, 17, 9, 6, 3, and 2, has the h-index of 3.

16 Google Scholar Available Metrics

•The h-core of a publication is a set of top cited h articles from the publication. These are the articles that the h-index is based on. For example, the publication above has the h-core with three articles, those cited by 17, 9, and 6 in the list 17, 9, 6, 3, and 2 with the h-index 3.

17 Google Scholar Available Metrics

•The h-median of a publication is the median of the citation counts in its h-core. For the example before, the h-median of the publication was 9 (recall the references were 17, 9, 6, 3, and 2 times, and whose k-core was 17, 9, 6). • The h-median is a measure of the distribution of citations to the articles in the h-core.

18 Google Scholar Available Metrics

• Finally, the h5-index, h5-core, and h5- median of a publication are, respectively, the h-index, h-core, and h-median of only those of its articles that were published in the last five complete calendar years.

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