 academic citations academic citations 48 admin mon 10142019 1831 number of citations in academic publications the indicator shows the number of times the article has been cited as proxy for the academic relevance of research outputs core quantitative n a google scholar web of science wos scopus count the number of citations of publications resulting from the the initiative project s research since they were published number in physical units outcome citations annually annually citations is just one dimension of the quality of publications not all citations are necessarily recorded since not all publications are indexed yes example on how to obtain number of citations using google scholar available at  https scholargooglecom more information on the use of google scholar to estimate the impact of research van aalst jan using google scholar to estimate the impact of journal articles in education  educational researcher  395 2010 387400 available at  https journalssagepubcom doi full 1031020013189x10371120 adopt google scholar as a reference for academic citations to make the indicator more comparable among different initiatives citations 