Comments on: Google Scholar

By: Tanya

Tanya — Wed, 08 Dec 2004 23:29:29 +0000

Since you can search CiteSeer using google, doesn't that mean that CiteSeer is included in Google Scholar? Here's a very thorough review of it.

By: chad

chad — Fri, 19 Nov 2004 01:38:57 +0000

Well, CiteSeer says they have 716,797 documents. IngentaConnect is 17,311,812 – about 24x as many. This article says Google isn’t saying how many. I could probably find out, but it sounds like it’s deliberately not public knowledge, at least for now.

Given CiteSeer’s fairly narrow focus, it’s a safe assumption it’s bigger than CiteSeer but smaller than Ingenta, what with all those restricted access journals…

By: Anne

Anne — Fri, 19 Nov 2004 00:46:02 +0000

True. And I wondered that as well… How can we find out?

By: chad

chad — Thu, 18 Nov 2004 22:13:00 +0000

Agreed, though IngentaConnect seems like a different type of search than CiteSeer and Scholar, since most of their content isn’t publicly accessible. I wonder how the index size of CiteSeer and Scholar compare to IngentaConnect…

By: Anne

Anne — Thu, 18 Nov 2004 21:06:16 +0000

Citations are the primary means for tracking lines of research and getting to know the players in a field, so it's appropriate that citations are given so much emphasis. Yes and no. I mean, I always read the bibliography first, but sites like IngentaConnect still offer more comprehensive arts and science article searching...