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This paper studies the potential of using the Google Scholar search engine for estimating the publication activities of universities and considers a procedure for such estimation with the help of queries for the English names of universities. The publication structures for 2008 have been built for ten selected universities of the world, including MSU. The publication activities of the universities under consideration in 2007, has been compared based on the citation database of the US Institute for Scientific Information (Web of Knowledge) and Google Scholar search engine (GS-publications).
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Original Russian Text © V. M. Moskovkin, 2009, published in Nauchno-Technicheskaya Informatsiya, Seriya 1, 2009, No. 7, pp. 12–16.
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Moskovkin, V.M. The potential of using the Google Scholar search engine for estimating the publication activities of universities. Sci. Tech.Inf. Proc. 36, 198–202 (2009). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0147688209040029
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3103/S0147688209040029