Google Scholar as a Data Source for Research Assessment in the Social Sciences

Column 1

Source

Data sources that the publications retrieved. Values for this column are “Google Scholar”, “Scopus”, and “Web of Science”.

Column 2

Authors

The authors of the publications. This column is kept as additional information for verification of data. Not used in the analysis, it has not been standardized.

Column 3

Title

Titles of the publications. For non-English publications, English titles, if available, are kept in this column. Otherwise, the original titles have been entered. The headings were checked and errors and omissions were corrected. Corrected titles are marked in red.

Column 4

Title translated with Google Translate

In this Column, the English translated titles of the publications that do not have English titles are kept. Google Translate is used for detecting the language and translation. For publications with an English title, the expression [Title in English] has been entered. The translations of the original titles kept in this field were used in the analysis made through VOSviewer. It is marked in red as it is newly added data.

Column 5

Language

Language of the publications. The languages of all publications were checked, missing data were completed and errors were corrected. If the language of the publication could not be determined, the value is [Not found]. The cells with addition or correction are marked in red.

Column 6

Document type

Types of the documents. For all publications, publication type information was checked, missing ones were completed and corrections were made. All intervened cells are marked in red. Article and Review types are referred to as “Article” in the text.

Column 7

Full-text available

Values for this column are “Yes” and “No”. The values for this column are Yes and No. If there is access to the full text of the publication via the web, "Yes", otherwise the "No" value has been entered.

Column 8

On research evaluation

Values for this column are “Yes” and “No”. Using the title and/or abstract information, it was tried to determine whether the publications were related to the research evaluation. “Yes”, if found relevant, and “No” if not. It is marked in red as it is newly added data.

Column 9

Publication year

The publication years of the documents. If the publication years are missing, they have been completed. The current publication years have been checked and corrected if necessary. If the year of publication could not be found, it is indicated as [Not found].

Column 10

English abstract

Abstracts of the publications. If there is an accessible/available English abstract for the publication, it is kept in this column. [Not found/Not available] for missing values. Abstracts that were added, changed, corrected, or completed are marked in red.