Question regarding OSF citations and google scholar
a.
The OSF offers citations of documents or data, etc. which is
very useful. I reason that it would be even more useful if, for instance, google
scholar would index (or whatever the appropriate term is) these citations, but I don’t
think that’s the case at this point in time.
I reason that researchers would be highly incentivized to upload data, unpublished work, or short reports of null-results, etc. when possible citations would actually “count” concerning their h-index etc. via google scholar.
If it is indeed the case that google scholar does not yet index OSF citations, I was wondering if the OSF/COS has thought about the potential benefit if having google scholar index OSF citations and if it/we can do anything to help accomplish this.
I have been reading some information about inclusion in google scholar (https://scholar.google.nl/intl/en/scholar/inclusion.html#overview) and it appears to me that there need to be certain criteria met in order for google scholar to actually index/find the information. I am wondering whether OSF documents, data, etc. adhere to these criteria.
More specifically, I was wondering whether it 1) would be beneficial if OSF citations were indexed via google scholar and 2) if this is the case, does the information on the OSF need to be somehow converted/adapted so google scholar would include it in their search etc. 3) if this is the case, would it be useful to find a way to have OSF citations/documents be included in google scholar (perhaps a certain template could be designed so the information presented in it would then be indexed by google scholar?).
Brian Nosek
At present, the Google Scholar team has expressed interest in only
indexing manuscripts/articles, not other research products (data,
materials, etc.). That may change over time as these other research
products are recognized as unique intellectual contributions. In the
meantime, OSF does facilitate preprint sharing, and that will be
useful to have indexed via Google Scholar - particularly when we
release a generalized pre-print service.
Also, the Google Scholar dataset is closed in that there is no way to
access the database of articles (or build new search and discovery
services) except through scholar.google.com. The SHARE project
(http://osf.io/share/) is creating a fully open dataset of all
research products. This will surface all research contributions
(manuscripts, data, code, etc) in a single dataset, and is fully open
to encourage anyone to build discovery services on top of the dataset.
Best,
Brian
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a.
Thank you for the reply/information !
"In the meantime, OSF does facilitate preprint sharing, and that will be useful to have indexed via Google Scholar - particularly when we release a generalized pre-print service."
I don't know what the "rules" will be concerning pre-prints but i hope this will also make it possible to upload documents concerning null-results. I hope having google scholar index OSF pre-prints will help make it easier, and worthwhile, for researchers to make their unpublished work and/or null-results known.