IRDec 13, 2013
Eugene Garfield, Francis Narin, and PageRank: The Theoretical Bases of the Google Search EngineStephen J. Bensman
This paper presents a test of the validity of using Google Scholar to evaluate the publications of researchers by comparing the premises on which its search engine, PageRank, is based, to those of Garfield's theory of citation indexing. It finds that the premises are identical and that PageRank and Garfield's theory of citation indexing validate each other.