Google Scholar Citations

Today, Google publicly launched its Google Scholar Citations service.  Although the service has been available for beta testers for the past few months, today is the first day that people in the general public (like me) have been able to create a profile and start adding publications (see image below!).

According to a post to the Google Scholar blog earlier today, authors will be able to easily add their publications, and then track the impact of their citations over time.  From the image below, you can see that My Citations will calculate the total cites a person has had, an author's h-index, and an author's i10 -index.

I have discussed impact factors and other types of citation metrics on this blog before (and with many of you in person), and I think that this new tool developed by Google has a lot of potential for helping researchers, scholars, and faculty members track their scholarly impact.  We'll have to see how it evolves, but I for one am excited about this tool, and encourage you to check it out!