nbsp;http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA…
“A free tool, Google Scholar has become the most convenient resource to find a few good scholarly papers–often in free full-text format–on even the most esoteric topics. For topical keyword searches, GS is most valuable. But it cannot be used to analyze the publishing performance and impact of researchers.”
In “Google Scholar’s Ghost Authors, Lost Authors, and Other Problems”
(LIBRARY JOURNAL.COM, September 24, 2009), Peter Jacso outlines several issues in Google’s tool that can cause problems not only for librarians but also for scholars who use the database for publication and citation counts. He found that not only did the database contain “ghost” authors
– false names created by poor parsing of data — but also replaced real authors with the ghost names, thereby depriving legitimate scholars of their deserved authorship credits.
The article is available at
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA…
source: LJ
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