1. Google Scholar and ShareLaTeX
By: Ralucca Gera, NPS
Excellence Through Knowledge

2. ShareLaTeX Free: https://www.sharelatex.com?r=22fbe723&rm=d&rs=b
Documentation:
“ShareLaTeX is a web-based real-time collaborative (like GoogleDocs) LaTeX editor (no need of LaTeX on your machine)”
“includes the editor, the project and document storage, and the backend LaTeX compiler”

3. ShareLaTeX Templates
Blog:
Templates for bibliographies:
Templates for presentations:

4. Try it!
You have an with a link to a ShareLaTeX folder that I shared with you

5. Google Scholar
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6. Google Scholar’s goals
It enables searches of scholarly literature (scholarly publications, abstracts, books…)
Easy to use (same familiar search bar as Google, but results are limited to scholarly resources)
Contains links to the article’s PDF, Postscript, HTML format
Easy to view key information about articles: “cited by”, “related articles” and so on
Easy to export citation to LaTeX that can be used for any formatting style

7. Historical background
Google Scholar was released (in beta) in 2004
Not the first freely available citation database (CiteSeer, Scirus, etc)
Not subject specific
Many use it as a viable alternative to ‘traditional’ citation databases such as Web of Science, because of
Easy of use (free, no account needed)
Extensive coverage of articles
Encodes wide range of metrics about articles/authors
However metrics are not perfect (data base is not complete, some duplications exist, algorithms used)

8. Features of Google Scholar
From
Searches all scholarly literature from one convenient place
Explores related works, citations, authors, and publications
Locates the complete document through your library or on the web
Keeps up with recent developments in any area of research
Checks who's citing your publications, creates a public author profile (if you get an account)

9. How are documents ranked?
From
“Google Scholar aims to rank documents the way researchers do,
weighing the full text of each document,
where it was published,
who it was written by,
as well as how often and how recently it has been cited in other scholarly literature. “

10. Use “Advanced Scholarly Search”

11. Use “Advanced Scholarly Search”.
Google Scholar is a great place to begin your research. For more advanced search capabilities, select the “Advanced Scholar Search” link located on the right-hand side of the search bar. Happy Searching!

12. Google Scholar – Advanced Search
Search keywords, authors, publications, years, etc.
Limit to “Engineering, Computer Science, and Mathematics”
Retrieve millions of results with options
Can be refine by “all articles” vs. “recent articles”

13. Quadsearch (Any browser): http://quadsearch.csd.auth.gr/
What can you get?
Quadsearch (Any browser):
Scholar H-index Calculator (Mozilla Firefox)
Scholarometer (Mozilla Firefox/Google Chrome)
Publish or Perish (Separate Application)
Quadsearch (i.e. the ‘Science’ search)
Scholar H-index Calculator
(add-on for the Mozilla Firefox browser, adds metrics to the standard Google Scholar site, easy to use but only calculates for the articles on the current page, a maximum of 100)
Scholarometer
(add-on for the Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome browsers – appears as a sidebar when installed)
Publish or Perish
(application that calculates a wide variety of metrics

14. Click “Metrics” at the top (per journal)

15. H-index of a scientist from wikipedia
“a scholar with an index of h has published h papers each of which has been cited in other papers at least h times” .

16. Google Scholar Available Metrics
The next few slides have information from:
The h-index of a publication is the largest number h such that at least h articles in that publication were cited at least h times each. For example, a publication with five articles cited by, respectively, 17, 9, 6, 3, and 2, has the h-index of 3.

17. Google Scholar Available Metrics
The h-core of a publication is a set of top cited h articles from the publication. These are the articles that the h-index is based on. For example, the publication above has the h-core with three articles, those cited by 17, 9, and 6 in the list 17, 9, 6, 3, and 2 with the h-index 3.

18. Google Scholar Available Metrics
The h-median of a publication is the median of the citation counts in its h-core. For the example before, the h-median of the publication was 9 (recall the references were 17, 9, 6, 3, and 2 times, and whose k-core was 17, 9, 6).
The h-median is a measure of the distribution of citations to the articles in the h-core.

19. Google Scholar Available Metrics
Finally, the h5-index, h5-core, and h5-median of a publication are, respectively, the h-index, h-core, and h-median of only those of its articles that were published in the last five complete calendar years.

20. http://scholarometer. indiana
-- evaluates the impact of the publications of an authsor

21. Practice for the research publication
Try Google Scholar now!