Google Scholar: A Study

International Journal of Application or Innovation in Engineering & Management (IJAIEM)
Web Site: www.ijaiem.org Email: editor@ijaiem.org

Volume 5, Issue 6, June 2016
ISSN 2319 - 4847
Google Scholar: A Study

Dr. S. K. Pandey
University Librarian, Central Library Kumaun University, Nainital
ABSTRACT
Google Scholar has now become a very important tool for research, and the different features of Google Scholar are an added
advantage for any research scholar. The Google Scholar approach offers some potential for literature retrieval. Google Scholar
automatically calculates and displays the individual's total citation count, h-index, and i10-index. These features are developed
in such a way that they can be very useful for both a beginner as well as an experienced researcher.
1.Introduction
Google Scholar is a freely available service with a familiar interface similar to Google Web Search. Much of the
content indexed by Google Scholar is stored on publishers servers where full-text documents can be downloaded for a
fee, but at least the abstracts of the documents found will be displayed at no cost. The Google approach does, however,
provide documents from the open access and self archiving areas (compare Swan and Brown, 2005).
Google scholar is contributing in the research by providing scholarly documents to the research community. According
to the citation value of a document is only one factor contributing to its ranking. Google builds a citation index out of
the full-text index as an add-on to its service. On top of the statistical best match ranking of full-texts, this add-on
implementation can be valuable for re-ranking documents or for analysis and evaluation purposes of certain document
sets.
Google Scholar offers fast searching with a simple, user-friendly interface. The pros of this are that the search is free of
charge and is done across interdisciplinary full-text collections. The Google Scholar approach offers some potential for
literature retrieval, for example, automatic citation analysis and the ranking built up from this, and oftentimes direct
downloading of full-text which is sometimes also described as a subversive feature (listing of self-archived pre- and
post prints).
2.Historical Background
Google scholar came up in 2006 by Alex Verstak and Anurag Acharya with the potential of providing scholarly
literature, including peer- reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas
of research. By the Use of Google Scholar, researcher can find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers,
professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web
In 2007, Google Scholar started a program to digitize and host journal articles, an effort separate from Google Books,
whose scans of older journals do not include the meta data required for identifying specific articles in specific issues. In
2011, Google removed Scholar from the tool bars on its search pages, making it both less easily accessible and invisible
to users who were not already aware of its existence.
In 2012, an individual Google Scholar page feature was added. Individuals, logging on through a Google account with
a bona-fide address usually linked to an academic institution, can now create their own page giving their fields of
interest and citations. Google Scholar automatically calculates and displays the individual's total citation count, hindex, and i10-index.
3.Significance of the Study

In the present time of Internet, quick access of scholarly information is very important because it is considerable that in
every second we found new research results. And if researcher is not able to get that information on time then that new
information cant be beneficial for the user. Google Scholar is helping the User by providing quick access to the
maximum Scholarly research production in a very limited time some time free of cost. The main aim of the study is to
analyze the features of Google Scholar and how it could be utilized effectively.
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4.Features of Google Scholar

Google Scholar is one of the research tools that are widely use by the researchers Google has added a new Google
Scholar option that can help user organize their research. Researcher can now create libraries of articles that they find
through
Google
Scholar.
To create a Google Scholar Library user should sign into their Google account before searching on Scholar.Google.com
then just click "save" when he/she find an article they want to save for future reference. They can saved items appear in
their Google Scholar Library where they can apply labels to them and sort them.
5.Applications for Research Scholar

Google Scholar indexes scholarly, peer-reviewed academic papers, journals, theses, books, and court opinions. These
are materials that students usually won't find through Google.com, Bing, or Yahoo search.
6.Google Scholar Alerts

Searching on Google Scholar is not like searching on Google.com or searching in any other public search engine. Just
they can do for Google.com searches; students can create Google Scholar alerts. Google Scholar alerts notify students
when new materials related to their search queries appear on Google Scholar. The screenshots below offer directions for
creating Google Scholar alerts
Do a search for the topic of interest, e.g., "M Theory"; click the envelope icon in the sidebar of the search results page;
enter your email address, and click "Create alert". We'll then periodically email you newly published papers that match
your search criteria.
It is very easy to get Google scholar alerts for that one just has to click the envelope icon in the sidebar of the search
results page then by entering the email address, and clicking "Create alert". Then periodically e-mail user newly
published papers that match users search criteria.
User can enter any e-mail address of their choice. If the email address isn't a Google account or doesn't match their
Google account, then Google Scholar email user a verification link, which user need to click in order to start receiving
alerts.
This works best if user creates a public Citations profile, which is free and quick to do. Once user get to the homepage
with their photo, click "Follow new citations" in the right sidebar below the search box. Google Scholar then email user
when they find new articles that cites users.
If user want to search for the paper, e.g., "Anti de Sitter space and holography"; click on the "Cited by" link at the
bottom of the search result; and then click on the envelope icon in the left sidebar of the search results page. Google
scholar sends the alerts right after they add new papers to Google Scholar. This usually happens several times a week,
except that Google scholar search robots meticulously observe holidays. There's a link to cancel the alert at the bottom
of every notification email.
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Step 2:
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7.Google Alerts and an Organization's Digital Reputation

In the world of internet and the freedom of doing so many things without letting know anybody two basic questions
came into the mind of the people belongs to an organization.
1. What happens when someone Googles your organization?
2. What is being said about your organization without your knowledge?
There were a few people surprised by what they found. It is a suggestion to everyone in the society to create a set of
Google Alerts for the names associated with their organizations. Its advised to the people to create Google Alerts for
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not only the proper names of their organizations but also the nicknames and abbreviated names that people use for their
organizations. Google Alerts makes it easy to find out when someone publishes something new about your organization
online. Another suggestion that often make about social media is to look at popular social networks like Facebook and
see if there are groups formed about your school or organization.
8.Recommendation engine
Google Scholar has introduced an extra service of making author profile pages and a recommendations engine. It is
changing it from a search engine to something closer to a bibliometrics tool of study. A significant purpose of making a
profile is to help user to find the articles they need. It is very often that users dont remember exactly how to find an
article, but they can pivot from a paper they do remember of an author and to their other papers. And so that they can
follow other people work another by a crucial way of finding articles. Profiles have other uses, of course. But once user
know their papers, they can track how their discipline has evolved over time, the other people in the scholarly world
that they are linked to, and can even recommend other topics that people in their field are interested in.
9.Futures to find out related Article of the interest

Google Scholar can help user to find out that how many other websites link to a particular site. The screen below shows
the search above re-entered into Google Scholar. Click on SFX@UCL to access online resources paid for by UCL
Library Services, or to find the printed publication in one of UCLs libraries. Click on the title to get brief details of the
article, or other work, (often including an abstract). You may also be able to get to the full-text from the brief details
page by clicking on a link to full text or PDF. If you cant get the full-text directly from Google Scholar, you may be
able to find it, either online or in paper format, elsewhere (see the How to find full text journal articles handout).
As a Part of research society or from the field of education we all know about Google scholar that it is a search engine
which helps us to provide scholarly documents. But through this study it is found that it is not just a search engine. A
search engine that not only provide as scholarly information that through above mention features it help as like a hub of
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literary works. Google scholar has very important and useful features for a researcher. And if a researcher uses all or at
least some of the mentioned features in his or her research work .They will be greatly benefited. They can get very
quality literature to study even without going to search for thorough Google Alerts, they can make authors profile for
the recommendations. These features make Google Scholar more special then of being just a Search engine.
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International Journal of Application or Innovation in Engineering & Management (IJAIEM)

Web Site: www.ijaiem.org Email: editor@ijaiem.org

ISSN 2319 - 4847