Google Scholar Metrics allow researchers to find out the visibility and influence of recent articles. It uses h-index methodology to run out the Top 100 publications in several languages.
Scholar Metrics mainly covers articles published in the previous 5 years. Journals having less than 100 articles or in publications without citation, they would be excluded together with court opinion, patents, books, dissertations and would be excluded.
Learn more about the Coverage Guidelines for Google Scholar.
Available Metrics:
- h-index of a publication is the largest number h such that at least h articles in that publication were cited at least h times each. For example, a publication with five articles cited by, respectively, 17, 9, 6, 3, and 2, has the h-index of 3.
- h-core of a publication is a set of top cited h articles from the publication. These are the articles that the h-index is based on. For example, the publication above has the h-core with three articles, those cited by 17, 9, and 6.
- h-median of a publication is the median of the citation counts in its h-core. For example, the h-median of the publication above is 9. The h-median is a measure of the distribution of citations to the articles in the h-core.
- h5-index, h5-core, and h5-median of a publication are, respectively, the h-index, h-core, and h-median of only those of its articles that were published in the last five complete calendar years.