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Google Scholar, launched in 2004, is a multi-disciplinary search engine for scientific and academic documents, indexing international scientific literature: peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed journal articles, books, theses, texts deposited in open archives, pre-publications, patents, reports...
These documents come from a wide range of sources, and Google has forged numerous partnerships with publishers, learned societies, universities, libraries and research organizations, for example with Elsevier, and in France with INIST (Institut de l'information scientifique et technique) and ABES (Agence bibliographique de l'enseignement supérieur).
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Bibliography
Gusenbauer (M.), Google Scholar to overshadow them all? Comparing the sizes of 12 academic search engines and bibliographic databases, Scientometrics, vol. 118, no. 1, January 2019, pp. 177-214.
Meho (L.I.) and Yang (K.), Impact of data sources on citation counts and rankings of LIS faculty: Web of Science versus Scopus and Google Scholar. Journal of the American society for information science and...
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