期刊名称：International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA)
印刷版ISSN：2158-107X
电子版ISSN：2156-5570
出版年度：2021
卷号：12
期号：2
页码：201-211
DOI：10.14569/IJACSA.2021.0120226
出版社：Science and Information Society (SAI)
摘要：Maximizing visibility by using academic profiling sites is very crucial in the academic world to improve the readership of research papers published and constant evaluation of research quality. In this article, the authors focused on the visibility of Pakistani University scholars on Google Scholar (GS). An intelligent Web Bot (MAKGBOT) was developed to collect the scholarly data of all Pakistani scholars, whose data is publicly available on Google Scholar. The findings of this research show that 87% of Pakistani universities have a presence on Google Scholar. It analyzes the research performance of scholars based on the last five years’ data from 2016 to 2020. Furthermore, the analysis reports the level of scholarly activities of all provinces and autonomous areas of Pakistan. This paper concludes by discussing the ethical issue of misrepresentation of information on the public profile and its consequences on the rankings of legitimate scholars.
关键词：Google scholar; research visibility; Pakistani researchers; ethical considerations; web bot; research in Pakistan
