Keywords: researcher identification, impact factor, digital scholarship, citation
Introduction
What does it mean to be ‘Googled well’? Will Richardson (2008) addressed this question in Educational Leadership. His worry was from being a father, with specific concerns about his children not leaving the necessary and appropriate digital footprints on the Internet. Why might he have had a concern with them not having well-selected and creative evidence of existence on the web? Why might he further have worried about them not showing up at all in a Google search? A growing number of research for peer-reviewed articles and academic books are now digitized and accessible online. Weller (2011) identified three critical impacts to the digital scholarship age, which includes the increase in the quantity of peer-reviewed online information sources, the growth of social, peer academic networks, and the variety and range of content to draw upon for research that has broadened to include drafts of publications, conference presentations, blog posts, video and audio.