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Academic Search Engines intends to run through the current panorama of the academic search engines through a quantitative approach that analyses the reliability and consisten… Read more
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Academic Search Engines intends to run through the current panorama of the academic search engines through a quantitative approach that analyses the reliability and consistence of these services. The objective is to describe the main characteristics of these engines, to highlight their advantages and drawbacks, and to discuss the implications of these new products in the future of scientific communication and their impact on the research measurement and evaluation. In short, Academic Search Engines presents a summary view of the new challenges that the Web set to the scientific activity through the most novel and innovative searching services available on the Web.
Librarians and Information Scientists that wish to improve their knowledge about the new search services, including reliable assessments. Researchers and scientists that desire to use these engines to find relevant information and to observe their research and networking performance
1: Introduction
2: CiteSeerx: a scientific engine for scientists
3: Scirus: a multi-source searcher
4: AMiner: science networking as an information source
5: Microsoft Academic Search: the multi-object engine
6: Google Scholar: on the shoulders of a giant
7: Other academic search engines
8: A comparative analysis
9: Final remarks
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