Academic search engines : a quantitative outlook

• Main Author: Ortega, José Luis
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford ; Tokyo Chandos 2014; Elsevier Science & Technology; Chandos Publishing
• Edition: 1
• Series: Chandos information professional series
• Subjects: Data processing; Evaluation; Internet research; Research > Methodology; Scholarly Web sites; Web search engines

Academic Search Engines: intends to run through the current panorama of the academic search engines through a quantitative approach that analyses the reliability and consistence of these services. The objective is to describe the main characteristics of these engines, to highlight their advantages a...

Table of Contents:

• 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