Can Google Scholar and Mendeley help to assess the scholarly impacts of dissertations?

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Highlights：

• Citations to doctoral dissertations can be semi-automatically extracted from the Google Scholar.

• A fifth of the doctoral dissertations had at least one citation in Google Scholar.

• There are more Google Scholar citations than Mendeley readers for older dissertations.

• Mendeley reader counts are higher than Google Scholar citation counts for recently published dissertations.

摘要

•Citations to doctoral dissertations can be semi-automatically extracted from the Google Scholar.•A fifth of the doctoral dissertations had at least one citation in Google Scholar.•There are more Google Scholar citations than Mendeley readers for older dissertations.•Mendeley reader counts are higher than Google Scholar citation counts for recently published dissertations.

论文关键词：Dissertations,Theses,Impact assessment,Citation analysis,Google scholar,Mendeley

论文评审过程：Received 15 December 2018, Revised 23 January 2019, Accepted 20 February 2019, Available online 11 March 2019, Version of Record 11 March 2019.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2019.02.009