Wykorzystanie Google Scholar do identyfikowania najczęściej cytowanych badaczy i ich prac naukowych. Przypadek publikacji z zakresu nauki o informacji w języku polskim
Using Google Scholar to Identify the Most Cited Researchers and Their Research Papers. The Case of Polish Publications in the Field of Information Science

Summary/Abstract: Purpose/Thesis: The study seeks to determine whether Google Scholar allows the user to identify the most frequently cited researchers and their research papers published in Polish, and if the number of citations and the presence of keywords affect the publication’s position in the ranking of the results yielded by GS. The author ranks Polish researchers and publications in the field of information science published in the period 2010–2019 to verify the hypothesis that the presence of a given publication in the search results and its position in the ranking is affected by the absence of keywords. Approach/Methods: The author verifies and analyzes the data collected from Google Scholar. The sample comprises the results of forty queries, with key terms relating to information science, as well as names and surnames of researchers in the field. Results and conclusions: The analysis of the sample disproves the hypothesis that Google Scholar search engine allows the user to identify the most frequently cited works and researchers. A significant part of scholarship indexed in GS does not appear in search results when the query is a phrase related to information science. Many frequently cited texts place very low in the ranking. The study also disproves the thesis that the number of citations determines a given publication’s ranking. The vast majority of the bibliographic entries in the GS search results does not meet the user’s needs. Use of appropriate key terms does not make it more likely that a given publication will be found. Originality/Value: The work refutes the increasingly popular belief that Google Scholar can be professionally used to search for the most important (or rather, the most frequently cited) scientific papers and to rely on the number of citations as a basis for evaluating the papers published in Polish and the researchers publishing mainly in this language.

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