Academic Search Engines : A Quantitative Outlook.

Cover -- Academic Search Engines: A quantitative outlook -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures and tables -- Figures -- Tables -- Preface -- About the author -- 1 Introduction -- What is an academic search engine? -- Challenges for an academic search engine -- The evolution of academic search engines -- Future perspectives -- 2 CiteSeerx: a scientific engine for scientists -- Autonomous citation indexing -- A focus on computer science -- A searchable digital library -- Searching for authors and citations -- Parsing mistakes -- Other 'Seers': the CiteSeerx lab -- A pioneer in citation indexing -- 3 Scirus: a multi-source searcher -- Web pages and authoritative sources -- Crawling and data extraction -- Source filtering -- Ranking on links -- A missed opportunity -- 4 AMiner: science networking as an information source -- A networked engine -- A chaotic design -- Based on bibliographic databases -- Searching only in documents -- Exhaustive author profiles -- PatentMiner -- A half-academic search engine -- 5 Microsoft Academic Search: the multi-object engine -- The object-level vertical search engine -- Slow content updating speed -- Filtering across the directory -- A multidimensional ranking -- A composition based on profiles -- Visualization: graphs as research assessment tools -- More a directory than an engine -- 6 Google Scholar: on the shoulders of a giant -- A specialization of Google -- Feeding back its own sources -- The opacity of results -- Google Scholar's additional services -- The most exhaustive academic search engine -- 7 Other academic search engines -- BASE -- Q-Sensei Scholar -- WorldWideScience -- 8 A comparative analysis -- Functioning -- Structure -- Coverage -- Searching -- A heterogeneous sample -- 9 Final remarks -- References -- Index.

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