Google academy profile. Google Scholar
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Google Scholar arose from a discussion between Alex Verstak and Anurag Acharya, both of whom then worked on building Google's core web index.
In 2006, in response to the release of Microsoft's Windows Live Academic Search, a potential competitor to Google Scholar, it introduced citation import functionality using bibliographic managers (such as RefWorks, RefMan, EndNote, and BibTeX). Similar capabilities are also implemented in other search engines such as CiteSeer and Scirus.
In 2007, Acharya announced that Google Scholar began a program to digitize and host journal articles under an agreement with publishers, separate from Google Books, whose scans of old journals do not include the metadata needed to find specific articles in specific fields.
Features and Specifications
Google Scholar allows users to search for digital or physical copies of articles, whether online or in libraries. "Scientific" search results are generated using links from "full-text journal articles, technical reports, preprints, dissertations, books and other documents, including selected web pages that are considered "scientific". Because most scientific results Google search these are direct links to commercial journal articles, most users will only be able to access a short abstract of the article, as well as a small number important information about the article and may have to pay to access the full article. Google Scholar is just as easy to use as Google's regular web search, especially with the "Advanced Search" feature that can automatically narrow search results to specific journals or articles. The most significant keyword search results will be listed first, in order of the author's ranking, the number of references that are associated with it and their relationship to other scientific literature, and also the publication ranking of the journal in which it is published.
Through its "cited in" feature, Google Scholar provides access to abstracts of articles that cite the article being reviewed. It is this function, in particular, that provides a citation index previously available only in Scopus and Web of Knowledge. With its Related Articles feature, Google Scholar presents a list of closely related articles, ranked primarily by how similar the articles are to the original result, but also by the importance of each article.
As of March 2011, Google Scholar is not yet available for the Google AJAX API.
Ranking algorithm
While most academic databases and search engines allow users to select one of the factors (such as relevance, number of citations, or publication date) to rank results, Google Scholar ranks results using a combined ranking algorithm that operates as "researchers do, given the full the text of each article, the author, the publication in which the article was published, and how often it was cited in other scientific literature.” Research has shown that Google Scholar gives particularly high weight to the number of citations and words included in the title of a document. As a result, the first search results often contain highly cited articles.
Limitations and criticism
Some users find Google Scholar comparable in quality and usefulness to commercial databases, although its user interface (UI) is still in beta.
A significant problem with Google Scholar is the lack of data on its coverage. Some publishers do not allow it to index their journals. Elsevier journals were not included in the index until mid-2007, when Elsevier made most of its content on ScienceDirect available to Google Scholar in Google Web Search. As of February 2008, the most recent years from the Journals of the American Chemical Society are still missing. Google Scholar does not publish crawl lists of scientific journals. Its update frequency is also unknown. However, it provides easy access to published articles without the difficulties encountered in some of the most expensive commercial databases.
Notes
- Hughes, Tracey (December 2006) “An interview with Anurag Acharya, Google Scholar lead engineer” Google Librarian Central
- Assisi, Francis C. (3 January 2005) "Anurag Acharya Helped Google's Scholarly Leap" INDOlink
- Barbara Quint: Changes at Google Scholar: A Conversation With Anurag Acharya Information Today, August 27, 2007
- 20 Services Google Thoughts Are More Important Than Google Scholar - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic
- Google Scholar Library Links
- Vine, Rita (January 2006). Google Scholar. Journal of the Medical Library Association 94 (1): 97–9.
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- About Google Scholar. Scholar.google.com. Archived from the original on March 29, 2012. Retrieved July 29, 2010.
- Google Scholar Help
- Official Google Blog: Exploring the scholarly neighborhood
- Jöran Beel and Bela Gipp. Google Scholar's Ranking Algorithm: An Introductory Overview. In Birger Larsen and Jacqueline Leta, editors, Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI’09), volume 1, pages 230-241, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), July 2009. International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics. ISSN 2175-1935.
- Jöran Beel and Bela Gipp. Google Scholar's Ranking Algorithm: The Impact of Citation Counts (An Empirical Study). In André Flory and Martine Collard, editors, Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS’09), pages 439-446, Fez (Morocco), April 2009. IEEE. doi:10.1109/RCIS.2009.5089308. ISBN 978-1-4244-2865-6.
- Bauer, Kathleen, Bakkalbasi, Nisa (September 2005) “An Examination of Citation Counts in a New Scholarly Communication Environment” D-Lib Magazine, Volume 11, No. 9
- Peter Brantley: Science Directly into Google O'Reilly Radar, July 3, 2007
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Google Scholar is a search system that indexes full texts of scientific publications of all formats and disciplines. Google Scholar includes articles that are published in journals, articles that are stored in repositories or found on the websites of scientific journals, personal pages scientists.
In order to register in the Google Scholar database, you must first create a Google account. You will be asked to enter some personal information and create an email *gmail.com.
After registration we go to home page Google search engine and click the “Login” button in the upper right corner. In a new window, enter the mailbox address and password we specified.
Registration in Google Scholar
You need to go through several registration steps.
Attention (!)- in the “email” field you must enter not your personal mailbox, but the institution where you work.
In order to find out or receive an email from your establishment, you must contact the appropriate information service or department. You can also write a report asking for electronic mailboxes on the official domain of the establishment to one or more employees. In our case, we drew up a report addressed to the first vice-rector of the university from the head of the department. You can get a sample report.
Google Scholar will implement search query based on your last name, first name and patronymic and will offer to indicate or refute the authorship of some articles that have already been indexed. You can miss this step, if you are not the author of the found articles.
Choose whether or not to update the list of articles in your profile and move on.
After creating a profile, you need to activate it by clicking on the link that will be sent to the email you specified. Here you can add articles, view citation statistics
All journals of our publishing house are included in Google Scholar. However, authors should take into account that these articles are included in automatic mode, i.e. By agreement with Google Academy, their robot automatically downloads articles from our sites into its database. This does not always happen quickly. And since this is done by a robot, errors are possible. If you want your articles to be quickly uploaded to Google Academy, so that you, as an author, have the necessary scientific indicators in Google Academy, you need to create a profile in Google Academy and submit your articles there yourself. Below is a video with brief instructions.
Sign up for Google Academy
Registering with Google Scholar and submitting articles to Google Scholar
Our publishing house cannot create your personal profiles for you. This would be a violation of our Google Scholar agreement. Only the author creates his personal profile. Only by creating his personal profile, the author gains access to a wide range of tools for managing his scientific indicators. Sign up for Google Academy, manage your profile and scientific indicators that have specific scientific value to your Western colleagues.
In order to understand various aspects of working with Google Academy, we provide a link to an article that covers in detail the issues of working with this library
In order to check the degree of development of the selected scientific problem and engage in a full analysis of existing scientific works, just searching in Yandex or Google is not enough. For these purposes, special scientific search services have been created. These include:
- Web of Science;
- Scopus;
- Google Scholar
The first two search engines are paid. And one of the best and largest search services is Google Scholar (Google Academy). It is part of Google search and indexes full text versions of scientific articles, publications in all sciences and scientific disciplines, in all formats.
Advantages of Google Scholar compared to other search services
Here are just some of the benefits of this search engine:
- Firstly, it is an easily accessible and free option for searching for published dissertations, peer-reviewed articles, authoritative monographs and other specialized scientific literature, which came out from reputable publishing houses of various world universities, professional companies and associations, and scientific organizations.
- Secondly, the Academy is Russified and fully adapted for the Russian-speaking audience (unlike other analogues).
- Thirdly, the Google Scholar system makes it possible to search for full-text articles from magazines and newspapers, preprints and other paper documents. The Academy systematizes information from the majority of peer-reviewed journals (both online and offline) of the most authoritative scientific publishing houses in the USA and Europe.
- Fourthly, the search algorithm is almost no different from working with conventional search engines and issuing links that match the request. Using these links you can easily find articles that contain the abstracts you are looking for. Of course, most of the articles, unfortunately, are closed. Viewing the full version is possible only after making certain monetary contributions. But there are still texts that are provided free of charge in full version without restrictions.
Google Academy features
Search in Google Academy is most often used as a standard search service, which has an “advanced search” function that allows you to search for articles:
- on topic;
- by author;
- by city and year of publication;
- according to the rating of the author of the article;
- by the number of links to the publication;
- by rating of articles that link to the searched article;
- according to the rating of the journals in which the articles are published;
- on periodicals (magazines and newspapers);
- on deposited articles in repositories;
- on university repositories.
In addition, after registering with the Academy, each researcher can:
- find out the number of citations;
- find similar or similar articles;
- find all versions of the publication;
- save the article in your own systematized book depository;
- cite the publication in GOST format.
What is Google Scholar Citations?
Within Google Academy, there is a special ability to track citations of your own articles. This is very convenient, because... Thanks to the service, you can find out the names of those who cite their own published articles and summarize all citations in the form of diagrams to demonstrate your progress in science. You can also make your profile open and accessible to the public. Then anyone can see the available results by last name.
Pros of Google Scholar Citations:
- in Google Academy, the “Citation” section is the basis for determining the citation index, which was previously possible only in Web of Science and Scopus;
- wider systematization of all publication activities of the author compared to RSCI, WoS and Scopus, because information is classified according to a clearly regulated list of publications;
- the greatest breadth of materials presented, because The Academy indexes all websites and repositories of universities, as a result of which almost all publications available on the Internet (except for closed ones) are automatically included in your personal profile.
Cons of Google Scholar Citations:
- most Russian-language journals and conference materials are not included in the database;
- it does not contain data from closed sources and there are no publications without electronic analogues (or which are not mentioned in electronic sources);
- there is no guarantee of the veracity of the data added to the author’s own personal profile (this is a matter of personal responsibility and adherence to scientific ethics);
- Some publishers prefer not to allow their journals to be indexed Google service Scholar;
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Google Scholar Citations features:
- the author’s profile is designed as a hyperlink, following which you can immediately see full list published works;
- the author can quickly find his own indexed articles;
- the author can edit information about his articles, add missing articles that the system does not know about;
- in case of an error, the author can delete other people’s articles from his profile;
- there is a function to automatically notify the author when new published works are published (usually within two weeks after the new work is published on the Internet);
- the ability to add co-authors and view their publications;
- there is a “cited in” section, where you can display a list of articles that refer to the publication you are viewing;
- in the “articles on the topic” section, a list of articles that are similar in content to the article in question is offered, and they are ranked by the level of similarity to the main article;
- There is a certificate of scientometric indicators (h-index, citation statistics).
- importing citations into programs for systematizing bibliographic information (BibTeX, RefWorks, EndNote, RefMan) and loading them into author identification systems (ResearcherID, ORCID).
How to use Google Scholar?
As mentioned above, everyone can use this search engine absolutely free. You just need to register on the website (scholar.google.ru), log in via Google account and fill out your own profile.
Your profile allows you to track not only the citation index of your articles, but also additionally calculate the Hirsch index and display the dynamics of your citations. You can also make your profile public and establish close scientific contacts with scientists who specialize in the same or related scientific problem. This is very useful in the modern globalized world, where scientific discoveries are most often made at the intersection of various sciences, scientific schools and scientific approaches. Google Scholar provides its registered users with the opportunity to work in almost all libraries in the world.
At the same time, it has been proven in practice that the quality of scientometric data in Google Academy is not lower than similar databases. Therefore, information from the Academy can be taken seriously when assessing the publication activity of a particular scientist.
Problems and Disadvantages of Google Scholar
Unfortunately, many publishers refuse to provide the right to index their publications. An even bigger disadvantage is the presence of a large number of pseudoscientific articles, because... Many unscrupulous publishers provide low-quality journals for indexing.
If you look for a highly professional article on a specific scientific problem, then there is a risk of plunging into “scientific consumer goods.” Therefore, when using Google Academy, you need to be vigilant and independently, with all attention, evaluate the scientific value and significance of the articles found in the search.
Google Scholar (Google Academy) Google Scholar Standing on the shoulders of giants extensive search of scientific literature maximum number of scientific journals in Russian citation statistics free resource (accessible from any computer) Google Scholar http://scholar.google.ru/ Search in the system is carried out on any language. To open the Advanced Search window, click the arrow to the right of the search window. Google Scholar Search for information The “advanced search” function allows you to specify your request. Google Scholar Search results In the left panel, you can select the date of publication, sort documents by relevance or by date of creation, and you can include patents in the search. If you disable the Show Citations feature, the system will only show full-text documents. Google Scholar Search results Next to each article there is information about citations, a link to similar articles, to other versions of the article. By clicking on the “Cite” link, you will see a bibliographic description of the document in accordance with various styles. Google Scholar Creating an account Create your account to connect additional features: to save search results, to create a list of your scientific works and track their citations, etc. Find the “Login” link on the top panel. Google Scholar Create an account Google Scholar Create an account Fill out the form provided. You can use any server to register email(not just gmail.com). After registration, an email will be sent to you with a link that you need to follow to activate your account. Google Scholar Working with your account The documents you find can be saved in your profile. To do this, click on the “Save” link located under the document. All information you have saved will be placed in the “My Library” section. Google Scholar Working with your account There is a special service for researchers: citing scientific works. To configure you need to go to your account and enter information about yourself: place of work, keywords, university email address. After this, an email will be sent to you asking for address confirmation. In the letter you need to click on the “Verify email address” link. Google Scholar Working with your account You can deny or allow public access to your profile. To add articles, click on the link “Actions” - “Add”. Google Scholar Working with your account Enter the title of your article in the search box. Google Scholar Working with your account If you have found your article, click on the “Add article” link. Then it will be loaded into your profile. Google Scholar Working with your account If the output of an article is incorrect, you can correct it. To do this, click on the title of the article. Google Scholar Working with your account In the window that opens, click on the “Change” link and enter the correct data. Google Scholar Working with your account If you have not found your works on the Internet, you can enter them manually. You can add not only articles, but also books, dissertations, and patents. Google Scholar Indicators You can view citation indicators in a specific industry by clicking on the “Indicators” link on the home page. Google page Scholar. Google Scholar Indicators Journals are classified by subject area depending on their h-index. Thank you for your attention! Scientific Library named after E.I. Ovsyankina Information and analytical department Astakhova Tatyana Nikolaevna We are always ready to help you! Contact us at: Nab. North Dvina, 17, main building of NArFU, 1st floor, room. 1136 from 8.00 to 19.00 Saturday from 8.00 to 16.00 Tel. 21 89 49 (internal 13 49) Vkontakte groups: http://vk.com/elsdepartment, http://vk.com/club48673643
