Google Scholar Profile for Institutions: A Sample Study

Abstract

This study examines the Google Scholar profile for Gandhigram Rural Institute. Gandhigram Rural Institute (deemed to be university) has established a Google Scholar profile for their research. The Gandhigram Rural Institute’s faculty publications information was collected from Web of Science and Scopus as of 22 January 2021. After consolidating the data from Web of Science and Scopus, a Google Scholar profile was created. After generating a profile, missing publication data were added to the profile as a sample for the year 2020. The present study information was obtained from Gandhigram Rural Institute Google Scholar profile. It was examined using data from Google Scholar, Web of Science and Scopus. Department publications, Google Scholar citations, the top 15 highly cited papers, and the citations and h-index of the top 15 faculty members were all analysed. It is discovered that ‘Department of Chemistry’ has published 78 (33.77%) publications and has received the greatest number of citations from Google Scholar, 294 (64.19%) citations from Web of Science and 96 (50.79%) citations from the Scopus database. It is found that Faculty S. Meenakshi has received the highest number of 232 (27.10%) citations from Google Scholar, 134 (29.26%) citations from the Web of Science and 47 (28.87%) citations from Scopus. It concluded that having an institution profile in the Google Scholar profile makes it very difficult to update and strengthen all the data in the profile. A Google Scholar profile can be useful as an individual profile if the data are kept up-to-date and maintained.