Pagella
- Description
- Pagella is a Java class that looks up scholarly publications in Google Scholar and computes bibliometric indexes (including h and g indexes).
- Author
- Massimo Franceschet (massimo.franceschet@dimi.uniud.it)
- Usage
- Compile and then run Pagella as follows:
java Pagella -s scholar
to compute indexes for the named scholar, and
java Pagella -p publication
to compute indexes for the named publication source.
java Pagella
to get more options. Here are more usage options and examples.
- Computed indexes
-
- items
- The number of items retrieved with Google Scholar
- cited items (% of items)
- The number of items with at least one citation and the percentage with respect to the number of retrieved items
- citations
- The number of citations received by the retrieved items
-
citations per item
- The number of citations divided by the number of items
citations per cited item
- The number of citations divided by the number of cited items
- h index
- The highest number h of papers that have each received at least h citations
- h core
- The citation counts for the papers included in the h index computation
- g index
- The highest number g of papers that received together at least g2 citations
- g core
- The citation counts for the papers included in the g index computation
- Known limitations
- Google Scholar outputs at most 1000 items per query. For queries that retrieve more than 1000 items the computed indexes may not be fully accurate.
- License
- GNU General Public License (GPL). Read the License.
- Tips
- Use Harzing's Publish or Perish
for a more advanced bibliometric analysis using data from Google Scholar.