Google Scholar Citations - Google Scholar Blog

"Today we [Google] are introducing Google Scholar Citations: a simple way for you to compute your citation metrics and track them over time. We use a statistical model based on author names, bibliographic data, and article content to group articles likely written by the same author. You can quickly identify your articles using these groups. After you identify your articles, we collect citations to them, graph these citations over time, and compute your citation metrics. Three metrics are available: the widely used h-index, the i-10 index,...and the total number of citations to your articles....These metrics are automatically updated as we find new citations to your articles on the web....You can also create a public profile with your articles and citation metrics...[which] can appear in Google Scholar search results when someone searches for your name....This will make it easier for your colleagues worldwide to follow your work. Google Scholar Citations is currently in limited launch with a small number of users...."