Ortega J.L. & Aguillo I.F. (2013) Institutional and country collaboration in an online service of scientific profiles: Google Scholar Citations. Journal of Informetrics 7(2): 394-403
Abstract. The purpose of this paper is to analyse and describe the topological properties of the institutional and national collaboration network from the profiles extracted from Google Scholar Citations (GSC). 19,912 unique profiles with “co-authors” were obtained from a web crawl performed in March 2012. Several statistical and network analysis techniques were used to map and analyse these collaboration relationships at the country and institution level.