Google Scholar to overshadow them all? Comparing the sizes of 12 academic search engines and bibliographic databases

@article{Gusenbauer2018GoogleST,
  title={Google Scholar to overshadow them all? Comparing the sizes of 12 academic search engines and bibliographic databases},
  author={Michael Gusenbauer},
  journal={Scientometrics},
  year={2018},
  volume={118},
  pages={177-214}
}
  • Michael Gusenbauer
  • Published 2018
  • Computer Science
  • Scientometrics
  • Information on the size of academic search engines and bibliographic databases (ASEBDs) is often outdated or entirely unavailable. Hence, it is difficult to assess the scope of specific databases, such as Google Scholar. While scientometric studies have estimated ASEBD sizes before, the methods employed were able to compare only a few databases. Consequently, there is no up-to-date comparative information on the sizes of popular ASEBDs. This study aims to fill this blind spot by providing a… CONTINUE READING
    80 Citations
    Comprehensiveness and uniqueness of commercial databases and open access systems
    NLP Scholar: A Dataset for Examining the State of NLP Research
    • 3
    • PDF
    Disparities in Citation Metrics Amongst Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar for Interventional Radiology Journals
    • 1

    References

    SHOWING 1-10 OF 62 REFERENCES
    Is Google Scholar useful for bibliometrics? A webometric analysis
    • 166
    • Highly Influential
    • PDF
    Is Google enough? Comparison of an internet search engine with academic library resources
    • 167
    • PDF
    A Technique for Measuring the Relative Size and Overlap of Public Web Search Engines
    • 459
    An exploratory study of Google Scholar
    • 92
    • PDF
    A Comparison between Two Main Academic Literature Collections: Web of Science and Scopus Databases
    • 378
    • PDF
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Google-Scholar-to-overshadow-them-all-Comparing-the-Gusenbauer/ff5f86f2e54c356cec4b4004398f501776c29ffb
www.semanticscholar.org
crawl=CC-MAIN-2021-04
353024
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:UPFRIL2FY5TZBM7MEVDMLJOVRHDYWYSC
<urn:uuid:285b957b-e2ab-4e19-a288-f9a18c51426d>
2021-01-16T09:24:42Z
99.86.230.70
text/html
sha1:3Z4P7EZWENCVAHLMRM3CPICQ4RTBVRNU
<urn:uuid:825ce436-267a-44d4-a58e-b3fadd6b6213>
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Google-Scholar-to-overshadow-them-all-Comparing-the-Gusenbauer/ff5f86f2e54c356cec4b4004398f501776c29ffb
response
<urn:uuid:0de53ff0-2d48-49e6-9faa-1ceea58f6f17>
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2021-04
publisher: Common Crawl
description: Wide crawl of the web for January 2021
operator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)
hostname: ip-10-67-67-226.ec2.internal
software: Apache Nutch 1.17 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)
robots: checked via crawler-commons 1.2-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)
format: WARC File Format 1.1
conformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/