Using Google Web-service to keep track of scientific citations to me
Google Scholar allows me to see which scientific papers cite my scientific papers. However, it does not order them according to date so I cannot easily identify the most recent papers with cite to me.
One way to somehow identify recent citations is to use the "as_ylo" parameter available in the advanced search. With as_ylo=2009 only the papers published in 2009 are shown to the given query. Combining that with a negative 'author:' query gets you some of the way, e.g., with "Nielsen FA" -author:"FA Nielsen" (included as_ylo=2009) I find papers from 2009 mentioning 'Nielsen FA' that are not authored by me. To get a higher retrieval rate I list some of the different variations of my name in the query. The real query is then (abbreviated) "Nielsen FA" OR ... -author:"FA Nielsen" ...! As the year progresses one gets more and more citations and it becomes difficult to identify the new ones. Using the real-time search in the standard Google Web search one may try an alternative way. Restricting the search to PDF files and real-time search for past month data may result in newer data, - but probably also lacking papers from publishers letter Google Scholar in but Google Web out: "Nielsen FA" OR ... filetype:pdf It is possible that Google Alerts also can help.
