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I was just sent a link to Publish or Perish, a citation analysis program from harzing.com that “retrieves and analyzes academic citations. It uses Google Scholar to obtain the raw citations, then analyzes these and calculates a series of citation metrics.” You have the option of performing an author impact analysis, journal impact analysis or general citation search.

I’ve played around with it a little bit this morning and it looks interesting. I recommend the “about” section for information about citation metrics and the choice of google scholar over ISI Web of Science. The latter also offers a nice summary of the general utility and accuracy of google scholar.