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Normalizing book citations in Google Scholar: A hybrid cited-side citing-side method

Mingers, John, Kaymaz, Eren (2019) Normalizing book citations in Google Scholar: A hybrid cited-side citing-side method. Journal of Data and Information Science, 4 (2). pp. 19-35. ISSN 2096-157X. (doi:10.2478/jdis-2019-0007) (KAR id:72909)

Abstract

Research evaluations based on citations require that the citations are normalized to the disciplinary background in some way. Generally this is done using a citation database such as the Web of Science but recently progress has been made in using citations from Google Scholar. Journal papers are normalized against papers from the same journal; book chapters against other chapters from the book and conference papers against other papers from the conference. But, so far books have not been normalized because there is no obvious reference set of books with which to compare them. The contribution of this paper is to test a hybrid method that uses a citing-side approach to determine the reference set of books but then a cited-side comparison with the citations to these books. The method is technically feasible but, as usual with Google Scholar, it requires extensive manual input.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.2478/jdis-2019-0007
Uncontrolled keywords: Google Scholar, book citations, normalization, research evaluation
Divisions: Divisions > Kent Business School - Division > Department of Analytics, Operations and Systems
Depositing User: John Mingers
Date Deposited: 12 Mar 2019 11:59 UTC
Last Modified: 04 Mar 2024 17:35 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/72909 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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