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Academic Search Engines : a Quantitative Outlook.
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Burlington :
Elsevier Science,
2014.
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| Colección: | Chandos information professional series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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 searcherWeb 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 profilesVisualization: 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.