Academic Search Engines: A Quantitative OutlookElsevier, 2 oct 2014 - 222 páginas 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. - This is the first approach to analyze search engines exclusively addressed to the research community in an integrative handbook. The novelty, expectation and usefulness of many of these services justify their analysis - This book is not merely a description of the web functionalities of these services; it is a scientific review of the most outstanding characteristics of each platform, discussing their significance to the scholarly communication and research evaluation - This book introduces an original methodology based on a quantitative analysis of the covered data through the extensive use of crawlers and harvesters which allow going in depth into how these engines are working. Beside of this, a detailed descriptive review of their functionalities and a critical discussion about their use for scientific community is displayed |
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a multisource searcher | 29 |
science networking as an information source | 47 |
the multiobject engine | 71 |
on the shoulders of a giant | 109 |
7 Other academic search engines | 143 |
8 A comparative analysis | 159 |
9 Final remarks | 179 |
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academic search engine advanced search allows the user AMiner analysis assigned author profiles autonomous citation index BASE bibliographic databases bibliometric BibTeX cent citation count cited CiteSeer CiteSeerx classification co-authors computer science conference coverage crawling CrossRef DBLP delimit digital libraries displays Distribution of documents document type duplicated elements Elsevier example extracted Figure filtering Full-text documents functionalities Google Scholar Citations Google Scholar Metrics graph h-index important included Institutional repository Jacsó Journal sources key words metadata Microsoft Academic Search million documents number of citations number of papers objects open access organizations parsing patents personal profiles possible Preferred web sources presents problem publication date published PubMed Central Q-Sensei Scholar query ranking RefWorks relevant research articles research evaluation retrieved ScienceDirect scientific information Scirus search interface search services shows social networking source type structure Table Thematic repository tool topics total number updating venue web crawl WorldWideScience