Benchmarking Google Scholar with the New Zealand PBRF research assessment exercise Export

@article{citeulike:2215588, abstract = {Abstract\ \ Google Scholar was used to generate citation counts to the web-based research output of New Zealand Universities. Total citations and hits from Google Scholar correlated with the research output as measured by the official New Zealand Performance-Based Research Fund (PBRF) exercise. The article discusses the use of Google Scholar as a cybermetric tool and methodology issues in obtaining citation counts for institutions. Google Scholar is compared with other tools that provide web citation data: Web of Science, SCOPUS, and the Wolverhampton Cybermetric Crawler.}, author = {Smith, Alastair}, citeulike-article-id = {2215588}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11192-008-0219-8}, doi = {10.1007/s11192-008-0219-8}, journal = {Scientometrics}, keywords = {bibliometrics, citation-analysis, citation-databases, google-scholar}, posted-at = {2008-02-25 07:55:10}, priority = {2}, title = {Benchmarking Google Scholar with the New Zealand PBRF research assessment exercise}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11192-008-0219-8} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2215588 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2215588 N2 - Abstract  Google Scholar was used to generate citation counts to the web-based research output of New Zealand Universities. Total citations and hits from Google Scholar correlated with the research output as measured by the official New Zealand Performance-Based Research Fund (PBRF) exercise. The article discusses the use of Google Scholar as a cybermetric tool and methodology issues in obtaining citation counts for institutions. Google Scholar is compared with other tools that provide web citation data: Web of Science, SCOPUS, and the Wolverhampton Cybermetric Crawler. JF - Scientometrics TI - Benchmarking Google Scholar with the New Zealand PBRF research assessment exercise KW - bibliometrics KW - citation-analysis KW - citation-databases KW - google-scholar AU - Smith, Alastair UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11192-008-0219-8 ER -