The lost academic home: institutional affiliation links in Google Scholar Citations

TL;DR

This paper evaluates Google Scholar Citations' affiliation feature, highlighting its effectiveness for many institutions but also its limitations in detecting all institutions and standardizing entries.

Contribution

It provides an analysis of the affiliation tool's performance, identifying strengths and weaknesses in institutional detection and standardization.

Findings

Works well for most institutions

Fails to detect all existing institutions

Struggles with creating unique standardized entries

Abstract

This paper analyzes the new affiliation feature available in Google-Scholar Citations revealing that the affiliation-tool works well for most-institutions, it is unable to detect all existing institutions in database, and it is not always able to create unique-standardized entry for each-institution.