On Thu, 12 Jan 2012, Michael Palij went:
The NY Times has an article on the alleged research fraud by Dipak K. Das of the University of Connecticut who reported on the beneficial effects of drinking wine. [...] More detail, including quotes from UConn's press release on the matter is available on "Retraction Watch" website; see: http://retractionwatch.wordpress.com/2012/01/11/uconn-resveratrol-researcher-dipak-das-fingered-in-sweeping-misconduct-case/
The thing is, you can't drink enough wine to absorb an active amount of resveratrol into your body <http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0009912002003971>, so any benefits resveratrol may have are entirely irrelevant to questions about the benefits of drinking wine. (I believe the active constituent of wine is ethanol.)
So, Google Scholar inflates the number of articles that a specific researcher has publishes (when I checked for my pubs, GS provided multiple hits for a single article
But Google Scholar, like WoS, now lets you do a citation analysis on your own work by weeding out the papers that shouldn't be there. (Click on "My Citations.") Trouble is, Google Scholar seems to provide no easy way to do this on someone else's work.
(e.g., I have a pub in an obscure journal which was not in the database but, when it was cited by another researcher -- thanks David ;-)
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