Google Scholar Beta
Péter Jacsó,
Dec 09, 2004
The subject line in the email read "Google Scholar roasted by Péter Jacsó" - and this is an understatement. What follows is as thorough a baking, broiling, slicing and dicing of a website as I have seen. The author makes his points, though, and has done his research, delving through the collection using undocumented search features to reveal, among many other things, that Google Scholar, while it claims to index Blackwell, lists only ten percent of the publishers 437,451 records in 755 journals. Many journals - especially open access journals - are not indexed at all. The artistry of this item is delightful, the indictment damning. I'd say it's back to the books for Google.
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