This presentation describes the performance of Pakistani LIS scholar on Google scholar

1. Google Scholar metric of Pakistani LIS scholars: An overview
by
Muhammad Yousuf Ali
M. Phil (Library Science)
Associate Librarian
Aga Khan University, Karachi

2. Social Media Networking

3. Social Media Networking
General Social
Media
Personal, Family,
Friends
Professional Updates
Co-workers, Supervisor, Manager
ASNS
Scholars, Researchers & Librarian

4. 2004 Google
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5. Introduction
Google is has started free scholarly services in 2004 (Vine, 2006) known
as Google scholar. It contains only research items (Articles, Conference
Paper, Theses, Dissertations, Books and Reports).
It has feature to import citations in to different format file (RefWorks, RefMan,
EndNote, and BibTeX )as well as different citation style (APA, MLA, Chicago,
Harvard and Vancoure)

6. Feature of Google Scholars Publications Characteristics
• Number of citations
• Citation Styles
• Version
• Save into Library

7. Feature of Google Scholars Publications Characteristics
• Citation Styles
• Citation format file

8. Feature of Google Scholars
Alerts Creates

9. Feature of Google Scholars Profile
• Scholar Name
• Publications
• Year
• Citations
• h-Index Citation
• i10-Index

10. Objective
• Pakistan LIS professionals and faculty members profile overview on
GS.
• LIS Professionals scholarly performance i.e (Publications, Citation,
h-index, i10-index) in front of scholarly world.
• To determine the Correlation publications and citations

11. Related Works
International literature available about the Google Scholar metric
covers various aspects of it.
• Bornmann, L., Thor, A., Marx, W., & Schier, H. (2016). The application of bibliometrics to
research evaluation in the humanities and social sciences: An exploratory study using
normalized Google Scholar data for the publications of a research institute. Journal of the
Association for Information Science and Technology, 67(11), 2778-2789.
• Haddaway, N. R., Collins, A. M., Coughlin, D., & Kirk, S. (2015). The role of Google Scholar
in evidence reviews and its applicability to grey literature searching. PloS one, 10(9),
e0138237.
• DeSanto, D., & Nichols, A. (2017). Scholarly metrics baseline: A survey of faculty
knowledge, use, and opinion about scholarly metrics. College & Research Libraries, 78(2).

12. Related Works
• Martín-Martín, A., Ayllón, J. M., Orduña-Malea, E., & López-Cózar, E. D. (2014).
Google Scholar Metrics 2014: a low cost bibliometric tool. arXiv preprint
arXiv:1407.2827.
• Kearl, M. R., Noteboom, C., & Tech, D. (2017). A Proposed Improvement to
Google Scholar Algorithms Through Broad Topic Search.
• Orduna-Malea, E., Martín-Martín, A., & Delgado López-Cózar, E. (2016). Metrics
in academic profiles: a new addictive game for researchers?. Revista espanola de
salud publica, 90.

13. Related Works
In Local context or
• Jan, S. U., & Anwar, M. A. (2013). Impact of Pakistani authors in the GOOGLE
world: A study of library and information science faculty. Library Philosophy and
Practice (e-journal).
• Ali, M. Y., & Richardson, J. (2017). Pakistani LIS Scholars’ Altmetrics in
ResearchGate. Program, 51(2).

14. Research Questions
Q No 1. How many Pakistani scholars have joined the Google Scholar and
what are the GS Metric?
Q No 2. To find the numbers of publications, citation gain by these
publications?
Q No 3. What are the correlation between the i.e citation, h-index and
i10-index citations?

15. Methodology
• This is self-exploratory study.
• Purposive sampling is used for this study and all the
library professional and faculty member are the
population.
• Scholars metrics was extracting during the period of 15
Oct to 30 Nov 2017 from GS.

16. Results
45 Pakistani LIS scholars profile found on Google scholar.
a. Gender
Frequency %
Female 7 15.56%
Male 38 84.44%
N=45 100.00%
b. Sector wise
Frequency %
Public 24 53.33%
Private 21 46.67%
N=45 100.00%
c. Professional Status
Frequency %
Faculty 13 28.88%
Practitioner 32 71.12%
N=45 100.00%

17. Results
Overall 858 Publications in 45 Scholar Profiles
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1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 27 29 31 33 35 37 39 41 43 45
Publications

18. Results
Publications & Citations
858 Publications in 4653 citations
Pearson Correlations results shows that there is strong association between
publications and citations r=0.947
0
500
1000
1500
2000
1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 27 29 31 33 35 37 39 41 43 45
Publications & Citations
Publications Citation

19. Results
Citations & h-Index Citations
4653 citations
170 h-index
Pearson Correlations results shows that there is strong association between
publications and citations r=0.875
0
500
1000
1500
2000
1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 27 29 31 33 35 37 39 41 43 45
Publications & Citations
Publications Citation

20. Results
Citations & h-Index Citations
155 i10-index
170 h-index
Pearson Correlations results shows that there is strong association between
publications and citations r=0.932
0
500
1000
1500
2000
1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 27 29 31 33 35 37 39 41 43 45
Publications & Citations
Publications Citation

21. Finding
• Small number of scholar has profile on Google Scholar.
• Most of Publications 63.17% has published through multiple authorship
• 36.83% publication has single authorship.
• Citation rate is author cover 19 citation per article.
• Only 3.79% h-index citation again by these publication i10-index 3.45%.

22. Conclusion
• Google scholar has good academic scholarly networking site for scholar
and support tool to librarian for searching items and citation support.
• Author found small number of profile but good number of publications
with co-authorship.
• There are strong correlation found b/w publication citation, h-index and
i10-index.
• Pakistani scholars has low presence on this network following reason it
doesn’t provide read, views and download option like Rearchagate,
Menedely and academia.edu.
• Research awareness is need as a part of special and University
libraries

23. References
1. Vine, R. (2006). Google scholar. Journal of the Medical Library Association, 94(1), 97.
2. Jan, S. U., & Anwar, M. A. (2013). Impact of Pakistani authors in the GOOGLE world: A study of library and information science faculty.
Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal).
3. Ali, M. Y., & Richardson, J. (2017). Pakistani LIS Scholars’ Altmetrics in ResearchGate. Program, 51(2).
4. Martín-Martín, A., Ayllón, J. M., Orduña-Malea, E., & López-Cózar, E. D. (2014). Google Scholar Metrics 2014: a low cost bibliometric tool.
arXiv
preprint arXiv:1407.2827.
5. Kearl, M. R., Noteboom, C., & Tech, D. (2017). A Proposed Improvement to Google Scholar Algorithms Through Broad Topic Search.
6. Orduna-Malea, E., Martín-Martín, A., & Delgado López-Cózar, E. (2016). Metrics in academic profiles: a new addictive game for
researchers?.
Revista espanola de salud publica, 90.
7. Martín-Martín, A., Ayllón, J. M., Orduña-Malea, E., & López-Cózar, E. D. (2014). Google Scholar Metrics 2014: a low cost bibliometric tool.
arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.2827.
8. Kearl, M. R., Noteboom, C., & Tech, D. (2017). A Proposed Improvement to Google Scholar Algorithms Through Broad Topic Search.
Orduna-Malea, E., Martín-Martín, A., & Delgado López-Cózar, E. (2016). Metrics in academic profiles: a new addictive game for researchers?.
Revista espanola de salud publica, 90.
9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-index

24. Thank You