29/03/2021
« Today, we are adding a Public access section to Scholar profiles to help you track and manage public access mandates for your articles. (…) »
24/02/2021
« Unlike other academic bibliographic databases, Google Scholar intentionally operates in a way that does not maintain coverage stability: documents that stop being available to Google Scholar’s crawlers are removed from the system. This can also affect Google Scholar’s citation graph (citation counts can decrease). Furthermore, because Google Scholar is not…
04/12/2019
« (…) In this post, Alberto Martín-Martín, Enrique Orduna-Malea , Mike Thelwall, Emilio Delgado-López-Cózar, analyse the relative coverage of the three main research databases, Google Scholar, Web of Science and Scopus, finding significant divergences in the social sciences and humanities and suggest that researchers face a trade-off when using different databases: between…
21/10/2019
« (…) This study investigates and compares the systematic search qualities of 28 widely used academic search systems, including Google Scholar, PubMed and Web of Science. A novel, query‐based method tests how well users are able to interact and retrieve records with each system. The study is the first to show…
28/08/2019
« Objective. To analyse quantitatively the articles published during 2008_2017 about the academic social networking site ResearchGate. Methods. A scoping bibliometric review of documents retrieved using Google Scholar was conducted, limited to publications that contained the word « ResearchGate » in their title and were published from 2008 to 2017. Results. The search…
22/07/2019
« Scholar Metrics provide an easy way for authors to quickly gauge the visibility and influence of recent articles in scholarly publications. Today, we are releasing the 2019 version of Scholar Metrics. This release covers articles published in 2014–2018 and includes citations from all articles that were…
06/08/2018
« Scholar Metrics provide an easy way for authors to quickly gauge the visibility and influence of recent articles in scholarly publications. Today, we are releasing the 2018 version of Scholar Metrics. This release covers articles published in 2013–2017 and includes citations from all articles that were indexed…
15/06/2018
« The launch of Google Scholar (GS) marked the beginning of a revolution in the scientific information market. This search engine, unlike traditional databases, automatically indexes information from the academic web. Its ease of use, together with its wide coverage and fast indexing speed, have made it the first tool most…
01/06/2018
« Google Scholar indexe le texte intégral ou les références bibliographiques de revues scientifiques et académiques, des thèses, actes de conférences et colloques, ouvrages scientifiques et académiques.
Le moteur indexe également les brevets et si vous l’utilisez même dans le cadre de recherche de brevets le guide ci-joint vous intéressera probablement.…
19/03/2018
« This article uses Google Scholar (GS) as a source of data to analyse Open Access (OA) levels across all countries and fields of research. All articles and reviews with a DOI and published in 2009 or 2014 and covered by the three main citation indexes in the Web of Science…