Diferencias y evolución del impacto académico en los perfiles de Google Scholar Citations: Una aplicación de árboles de decisión

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to analyse the research performance of more than 3,000 profiles from Google Scholar Citations to define which groups (by gender, academic positions and disciplines) bring together more successful profiles. This analysis was faced both from a static and a longitudinal point of view. Decision trees were used to detect the most important variables in order to distinguish winning profiles and to observe which categories bring together more authors with high number of citations and h-indexes. Results show that the career is the most relevant aspect to achieve citations and improve the h-index. Senior researchers are thus ranked in the best positions, while young scholars describe nascent curricula. Otherwise, this distribution changes when growth rates are computed. It is concluded that researchers with a stable career from life sciences have better research impact than young researchers from humanities and social sciences, despite that the fastest growing profiles belong to young scholars.