Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Perspect Med Educ. 2019 Jun;8(3):201-205. doi: 10.1007/s40037-019-0515-4.
It is often necessary to demonstrate the impact of a research program over time both within and beyond institutions. However, it is difficult to accurately track the publications of research groups over time without significant effort. A simple, scalable, and economical way to track publications from research groups and their metrics would address this challenge.
Google Scholar automatically tracks the scholarly output and citation counts of individual researchers. We created Google Scholar profiles to track the scholarly productivity of five research groups: an institutional educational research program, a division of emergency medicine, a department of emergency medicine, a national educational scholarship working group, and an international organization dedicated to online education. We added the publications of each group member to their respective group Google Scholar profile and a junior faculty member monitored the citations that were suggested.
Google Scholar tracked a diverse collection of five research groups over 6-36 months. In addition to having different organizational structures and purposes, the groups varied in size, consisting of 8-60 researchers, and prolificacy, with group citation counts between 1006-58,380 and group h‑indexes ranging from 19-101.
We anticipate that as this innovation becomes better known it will increasingly be adopted by traditional and non-traditional research groups to easily track their productivity and impact. Additional initiatives will be needed to standardize reporting guidelines within and between institutions.
通常需要展示一个研究计划在机构内外随时间推移的影响。然而，如果没有大量的努力，很难准确地跟踪研究小组随时间推移的出版物。一种简单、可扩展且经济的方法来跟踪研究小组及其指标的出版物将解决这一挑战。
Google Scholar 自动跟踪个人研究人员的学术产出和引用计数。我们创建了 Google Scholar 个人资料，以跟踪五个研究小组的学术生产力：一个机构教育研究计划、急诊医学部门、急诊医学系、一个国家教育奖学金工作组和一个致力于在线教育的国际组织。我们将每个小组成员的出版物添加到他们各自的 Google Scholar 小组个人资料中，然后由一名初级教员监督建议的引用。
Google Scholar 在 6-36 个月的时间里跟踪了五个不同的研究小组。除了具有不同的组织结构和目的外，这些小组在规模上也有所不同，研究人员人数从 8 到 60 不等，并且在生产力方面也有所不同，小组引用计数从 1006 到 58380 不等，小组 h 指数从 19 到 101 不等。
我们预计，随着这一创新变得更加为人所知，它将越来越多地被传统和非传统研究小组采用，以轻松跟踪他们的生产力和影响力。需要采取额外的举措来规范机构内和机构之间的报告准则。
