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Google Scholar, a free, centralized portal for searching for academic literature from a wide variety of publishers, added a new feature last month—Google Scholar Citations (GSC). GSC will allow researchers to track who cites their papers and how often they are cited over time. By creating a public profile, an author’s citation data will also appear in Google Scholar search results when a user searches for his or her name. In addition, the service promises to provide “h-index” values that reflect a researcher’s productivity and impact in their field, Nature reported yesterday (August 2).
Thomson Reuters' Web of Knowledge and Elsevier's Scopus database already offer such services, but for a fee, as does Microsoft, which launched its free-of-charge Academic Search (MAS) two years ago. MAS ...
