Google-Scholar vs SSCI
Magnus Henrekson and Daniel Waldenström consider various ways of ranking academic economists.
One tidbit from their table 4: The Spearman rank correlation between cites in Google-Scholar and cites in the Social Science Citation Index is 0.848. In other words, the newer Google-Scholar yields very similar conclusions to the more conventional source for citation data.
One tidbit from their table 4: The Spearman rank correlation between cites in Google-Scholar and cites in the Social Science Citation Index is 0.848. In other words, the newer Google-Scholar yields very similar conclusions to the more conventional source for citation data.
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