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As an academic that works in a research area where other indexes (like WoS, etc.) have really bad coverage, and as an academic that has a double surname and acc
by Al-Khwarizmi 12y ago
As an academic that works in a research area where other indexes (like WoS, etc.) have really bad coverage, and as an academic that has a double surname and accented characters which other indexes handle terribly wrong and end up creating many duplicate profiles with a few papers each, I feel very grateful for the great tool that is Google Scholar.
Additionally, thanks to it and its recommendation system I have found many interesting papers that I wouldn't have read otherwise.
I really hope that Google keep maintaining this tool for many years.
- afandian 12y agoYou should get yourself an ORCID and encourage your publishers to include it in their metadata (it can be updated even after publication). You can also provide a list of publications on your profile. http://orcid.org http://orcid.org
- Al-Khwarizmi 12y agoYes, ORCID is also a good tool. It handles accented characters and non-US names well, and it lets you add your own publications, which makes it much better than e.g. WoS/ResearcherID. It has a much narrower scope than Google Scholar though, as to my knowledge it doesn't compute bibliographic information like h-index, etc (which sadly is a need in the metrics-oriented world of applying for positions and grants) and doesn't provide recommendation functionality or search for paper PDF's.
- afandian 12y agoOf course, ORCID is trying to solve the particular problem of identifying authors and linking them to publications. Other tools generate metrics based on metadata. If more people use ORCID, then the quality of the data that those tools can use is improved.