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CSUN University News Clippings

New tool compares scholars’ research strengths

(July 2, 2009)

By DAVID GLENN

Just as anxious novelists can check their sales rankings on Amazon 24 times a day, academic researchers have a host of online tools for monitoring their citation stats — and those of their rivals.

Google Scholar, Reuters Thomson’s citation indices, and Springer’s AuthorMapper — those are just a few of the products that claim to reveal which scholars and departments are having the most impact on their fields…………..

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