H-index scores between 3 and 5 seem common for new assistant professors, scores between 8 and 12 fairly standard for promotion to the position of tenured associate professor, and scores between 15 and 20 about right for becoming a full professor.

g-index looks at overall record A g-index of 20 means that and academic has published at least 20 articles that combined have received at least 400 citations. However, unlike the h-index these citations could be generated by only a small number of articles.

Fortunately, there are several acceptable ways to boost your h-index.

1. Collaborate with more mature researchers.
2. Choose your journal carefully.
3. Publish Open Access.
4. Think about your audience.
5. Network, network, network.
6. Work on your writing.
7. Show up on social media.

The h-index is influence both by quantity (Scholarly Output) and publication impact (Citation Count). Originally conceived as a useful reflection of a researcher’s accumulated career, it is represented by a single number which stays the same or increases with time – it cannot go down.

Studies suggest 5 ways to increase citation counts

1. Watch your title length and punctuation.
2. Take advantage of preprint servers and release your results early.
3. Avoid mentioning a country in your title, abstract or keywords.
4. Link your paper to the supporting data in a freely accessible repository.
5. Cut the hyphens.

7 ways to make your Google Scholar Profile better

1. Clean up your Google Scholar Profile data.
2. Add missing publications to your Profile.
3. Increase your “Googleability”
4. Use your Google Scholar Profile data to get ahead.
5. Stay up-to-date when you’ve been cited.
6. 6. …
7. Tell Google Scholar how it can improve.

In most fields, the impact factor of 10 or greater is considered an excellent score while 3 is flagged as good and the average score is less than 1. This is a rule of thumb.

Google is not an academic source, or indeed, a source at all. Rather, Google is a search engine designed to help find materials that are available on the internet. In general, Google should not be used to find academic sources, as most websites and documents are not of an academic nature.

Google can be wrong. Google spends its resources scouring the Web trying to predict what will be the most relevant content to show users for their 3.5 billion searches per day. Usually, Google’s guesses are accurate, but sometimes they’re not.

Sometimes Google can answer a question faster (and better) than other sources. Now you know that there is a lot of information behind paywalls, and many sources that Google can’t bring to you for free, but Google is still helpful. Take note of the image below, especially the information about different types of sites.

Most information is found on the Internet by utilizing search engines. A search engine is a web service that uses web robots to query millions of pages on the Internet and creates an index of those web pages. Internet users can then use these services to find information on the Internet.