Thursday, September 13, 2007

Google-Scholar vs SSCI

Magnus Henrekson and Daniel Waldenstr�m consider various ways of ranking academic economists.

One tidbit from their table 4: The Spearman rank correlation between cites in Google-Scholar and cites in the Social Science Citation Index is 0.848. In other words, the newer Google-Scholar yields very similar conclusions to the more conventional source for citation data.

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