Can we do better than existing author citation metrics?

An index to quantify an individual's scientific research output

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Management, Data Science, Statistics +9

Comparison of PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar: strengths and weaknesses

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Medicine, Biomedical Informatics, Biomedical Sciences +16

Impact of data sources on citation counts and rankings of LIS faculty: Web of science versus scopus and google scholar

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Management, Computer Science, Information Retrieval +14

Comparisons of Citations in Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar for Articles Published in General Medical Journals

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Public Health, Biostatistics, Clinical Epidemiology +14

The skewness of science

Per O. Seglen · Journal of the American Society for Information Science · 1992 · 705 citations

Education, Literature, Nature Of Science +12