Journal of Development Research

Google Scholar Profile for Institutions: A Sample Study

A. Muthuraj¹ and M. Tamizhchelvan²

First Published 26 Jun 2023. https://doi.org/10.1177/22297561221149851

Article Information

Volume 15, Issue 2 December 2022

Corresponding Author:

A. Muthuraj, Sri Krishna Adithya College of Arts and Science, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu 641042, India.
Email: muthurajmphilbdu@yahoo.com

¹Sri Krishna Adithya College of Arts and Science, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

²Dr. G. Ramachandran Library, The Gandhigram Rural Institute-Deemed to be University, Dindigul, Tamil Nadu, India

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Abstract

This study examines the Google Scholar profile for Gandhigram Rural Institute. Gandhigram Rural Institute (deemed to be university) has established a Google Scholar profile for their research. The Gandhigram Rural Institute’s faculty publications information was collected from Web of Science and Scopus as of 22 January 2021. After consolidating the data from Web of Science and Scopus, a Google Scholar profile was created. After generating a profile, missing publication data were added to the profile as a sample for the year 2020. The present study information was obtained from Gandhigram Rural Institute Google Scholar profile. It was examined using data from Google Scholar, Web of Science and Scopus. Department publications, Google Scholar citations, the top 15 highly cited papers, and the citations and h-index of the top 15 faculty members were all analysed. It is discovered that ‘Department of Chemistry’ has published 78 (33.77%) publications and has received the greatest number of citations from Google Scholar, 294 (64.19%) citations from Web of Science and 96 (50.79%) citations from the Scopus database. It is found that Faculty S. Meenakshi has received the highest number of 232 (27.10%) citations from Google Scholar, 134 (29.26%) citations from the Web of Science and 47 (28.87%) citations from Scopus. It concluded that having an institution profile in the Google Scholar profile makes it very difficult to update and strengthen all the data in the profile. A Google Scholar profile can be useful as an individual profile if the data are kept up-to-date and maintained.

Keywords

Google Scholar, h-index, international institutions and organisations, Scopus, Web of Science

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