Can we use Google Scholar to identify highly-cited documents?

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Highlights：

• Highly-cited documents reflect the most influential authors and topics of all time.

• Citations received by documents greatly determine Google Scholar results rank.

• The interface language and the web domain influence the final results rank.

• Google Scholar is able to identify the highly-cited documents efficiently.

摘要

•Highly-cited documents reflect the most influential authors and topics of all time.•Citations received by documents greatly determine Google Scholar results rank.•The interface language and the web domain influence the final results rank.•Google Scholar is able to identify the highly-cited documents efficiently.

论文关键词：Google Scholar,Academic search engines,Highly-cited documents,Academic information retrieval

论文评审过程：Received 26 October 2016, Revised 29 November 2016, Accepted 29 November 2016, Available online 23 December 2016, Version of Record 23 December 2016.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2016.11.008