Do you know of any way around sorting the results of Google Scholar based on the number of citations, please?
Hi,
The database Publish or Perish which is free for downloading from the Web is based on Google Scholar's data. In this database here are several sorting features. You may try it..
Please refer the attachments. Google scholar is yet to include this feature in the search. However, one can sort the publications by number of citations inside a researchers profile in Google scholar. Sorting search results by citations is already available in Scopus.
Google Scholar has two sort options:
"Sort by by date" lets you can see the newest papers first, so that you can trace the tree of references backwards in time or by relevance and not miss any.
"Sort by relevance" takes primarily into account the proportion of times that your search words occur in each paper. So theoretically, the first papers presented should be the most important to YOU. It is also secondarily sorted according citation counts. However, the number of citations that each paper has attracted is an "old-fashioned blunt weapon" to find important papers to the GENERAL COMMUNITY which is still beloved by lazy database programmers, and university bean-counters.
Google has no intentions of out-Scopussing Scopus, so do not hold your breath waiting!
If you really want to study citation counts, then I suggest that you use some free software to sort on your harddrive.
Hi,
The database Publish or Perish which is free for downloading from the Web is based on Google Scholar's data. In this database here are several sorting features. You may try it..
Hi Farhad,
There are two other databases that will do this for you.
1) Microsoft Academic [ http://academic.research.microsoft.com/ ]
and
2) ScienceOpen [ https://www.scienceopen.com/ ]
They also offer enhanced search features.
Best Wishes
Matt
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/
https://www.scienceopen.com/
While Google does not include this feature, you can use this parser: https://github.com/WittmannF/sort-google-scholar
Just be careful to not trying too many results (more than 100). After a while, you get blocked from robot checking.
hi..
Publish or perish of Ann Will Harzings has limitation to 1000 results of google scholar
The best ones are:
1) Publish or Perish: https://harzing.com/resources/publish-or-perish
2)https://academic.microsoft.com/
And there are some other similar or alternatives:
https://alternativeto.net/software/microsoft-academic/
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