1. What is the purpose of Google Scholar?
Access to scientific and technical information via commercial databases requires a subscription and has a cost depending on usage (time and number of references viewed or downloaded).
Created in 2004, Scholar is a database providing free access to searches for scientific works published in refereed and non-refereed journals, theses, reports, books, online journals, as well as citations for all these works. Works citing publications indexed in Google Scholar are also presented in the database (citation in square brackets before the reference).
Google Scholar's ease of use, free access and range of derived functions (including researcher profiles, which can be public or not, presentation of an author's entire body of work with citations, transfer of information to other scientific production management systems such as "end note", etc.) make...
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Bibliography
Falagas M.E., Pitsouni E.I., Malietzis G.A., & Pappas G., Comparison of PubMed, Scopus, web of science, and Google scholar: strengths and weaknesses. The FASEB Journal, 22(2), 338-342 (2008).
Harzing A.W. & Van der Wal R., Google Scholar: the democratization of citation analysis. Ethics in science and environmental politics, 8(1), 61-73 (2007).
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