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The Google search engine has created a special tool "Google Scholar" for searching scientific and educational literature scholar.google.com, which allows you to search for peer-reviewed articles, dissertations, books and other scientific publications on various sites, from personal sites to large international repositories (repositories) and databases of publications.

Create this profile first, and then use the export button to transfer all data to other profiles.

"Google Academy" not only searches for scientific publications, but also sorts them, assigns them to individual authors, and provides them (authors) with a service to manage their profile. This service is called Google Scholar Citations" (briefly - GSC) or in Russian "Google Academy Bibliographic References" or "Author Profile at Google Academy". You can access this service by opening the "Google Scholarship" page scholar.google.com on the Internet and clicking on the link "My Citations" (for more details, see the instructions).

Why do I need a Google Scholar Citations profile?

First of all, the scientist himself (teacher, researcher) needs it. The GSC profile performs several important and convenient functions:

1. Systematization of all publishing activity, the widest of all existing services. Scopus, webscience or RSCI (e-library) collect information about publications only according to a strictly regulated list of publications. Most Russian-language journals and conference proceedings are not included in these databases. Google Scholar indexes all university websites and university repositories, so almost all papers are automatically included in the GSC profile.
2. Convenient work with the list of publications. You yourself determine the articles of which you are the author, you can edit (clarify) their description, add and delete works.
3. When other scientists search Google Scholar, they will be able to look at more than just one of your publications. With a configured GCS profile, your last name in the description of the publication turns into a link, by clicking on which you can see the entire list of your works, see the most interesting (most cited), see new works
4. Information about scientometric parameters such as Citation statistics, h-index, i10-index.
5. Automatic notification when new links to your publications appear (usually such confirmation comes 1-14 days after the publication of a new work on the Internet, and the publication itself may be in a closed database).
6. Automatic notification when your new posts appear.
7. Export list of publications in BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan formats. These formats are understood by researchgate.net systems and analogues, personal cabinets of scientometric systems. Having ordered the list of publications once, you will always have an up-to-date list, and using BiBTeX you can work with it to design new publications in LaTeX format.
8. The international Webometrics Ranking World Universities uses the Citation Statistics scientometric parameter of the nine most cited university scientists as one of the ranking parameters. You can look at this list for BSU at the link

All journals of our publishing house are included in the Google Academy. However, authors should keep in mind that these articles are included in automatic mode, i.e. in agreement with Google Academy, their robot automatically downloads articles from our sites into its database. It doesn't always happen quickly. And since this is done by a robot, errors are possible. If you want your articles to be uploaded quickly to Google Scholar, so that you, as an author, have the necessary scientific indicators in Google Scholar, you need to create a profile in Google Scholar and submit your articles there yourself. Below is a short instructional video.

Signing up for Google Scholar

Registering for Google Scholarship and submitting articles to Google Scholarship

Our publishing house cannot create your personal profiles for you. This will be a violation of our agreement with Google Scholarship. Only the author creates his personal profile. Only by creating his personal profile, the author gets access to a wide range of tools for managing his scientific indicators. Register in Google Academy, manage your profile and scientific indicators that have a certain scientific value for your Western colleagues.

In order to understand various aspects of working with the Google Academy, we provide a link to an article that details the issues of working with this library.

Google Scholar) is a freely available search engine that indexes the full text of scientific publications in all formats and disciplines. The release date in beta status is November 2004. The Google Academy Index includes most of the peer-reviewed online journals in Europe and America from major scientific publishers. It is similar in function to free available systems Scirus by Elsevier, CiteSeerX and getCITED. It is also similar to subscription-based tools such as Elsevier at Scopus and Thomson ISI's Web of Science. Google Academy's advertising slogan - "Standing on the shoulders of giants" - is a tribute to scientists who have contributed to their fields over the centuries, providing the foundation for new scientific advances.

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Google Scholarship originated from a discussion between Alex Verstak and Anurag Acharya, both of whom then worked on building Google's core web index.

In 2006, in response to the release of Microsoft's Windows Live Academic Search, a potential competitor to Google Scholarship, a citation import feature was implemented using bibliographic managers (such as RefWorks, RefMan, EndNote, and BibTeX). Similar features are also implemented in other search engines such as CiteSeer and Scirus.

In 2007, Acharya announced that the Google Academy had begun a program to digitize and host journal articles under publisher agreement, separate from Google Books, whose older journal scans do not include the metadata needed to search for specific articles in specific areas.

Features and Specifications

Google Scholar allows users to search for digital or physical copies of articles, whether online or in libraries. "Scientific" search results are generated using links from "full-text journal articles, technical reports, preprints, dissertations, books, and other documents, including selected web pages that are considered "scientific". Since most scientific results Google search these are direct links to commercial journal articles, most users will only be able to access a brief abstract of the article, as well as a small number of important information about the article, and you may have to pay to access the full article. Google Scholar is just as easy to use as a regular Google web search, especially with Advanced Search, which can automatically narrow search results to specific journals or articles. The most relevant keyword search results will be listed first, in order of the author's ranking, the number of citations that are associated with her and their relationship to other scientific literature, and also the publication ranking of the journal in which she appears.

Through its "cited in" feature, Google Scholar provides access to abstracts of articles that cite the article being reviewed. It is this feature, in particular, that provides the citation index previously available only in Scopus and the Web of Knowledge. Through its Related Articles feature, Google Scholar presents a list of closely related articles, ranked primarily by how similar those articles are to the original result, but also by the importance of each article.

As of March 2011, Google Scholar is not yet available for the Google AJAX API.

Ranking algorithm

While most academic databases and search engines allow users to select one of the factors (such as relevance, number of citations, or date of publication) to rank results, Google Scholar ranks results using a combined ranking algorithm that acts as "researchers do, given full the text of each article, the author, the edition in which the article was published, and how often it has been cited in other scientific literature. Research has shown that Google Scholar places particularly high weight on the number of citations and words included in the title of a document. As a consequence, the first search results often contain highly cited articles.

Limitations and criticism

Some users consider Google Scholar to be comparable in quality and usefulness to commercial databases, although its user interface(UI) is still in beta.

A significant problem with Google Scholar is the lack of coverage data. Some publishers do not allow it to index their journals. Elsevier's journals were not included in the index until mid-2007, when Elsevier made most of its ScienceDirect content available to Google Scholar in Google Web Search. As of February 2008, the most recent years are still missing from the journals of the American Chemical Society. Google Scholar does not publish a crawl list of scientific journals. The frequency of its update is also unknown. However, it provides easy access to published articles without the hassle of some of the most expensive commercial databases.

Notes

1. Hughes, Tracey (December 2006) "An interview with Anurag Acharya, Google Scholar lead engineer" Google Librarian Central
2. Assisi, Francis C. (3 January 2005) "Anurag Acharya Helped Google's Scholarly Leap" INDOlink
3. Barbara Quint: Changes at Google Scholar: A Conversation With Anurag Acharya Information Today, August 27, 2007
4. 20 Services Google Thinks Are More Important Than Google Scholar - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic
5. Google Scholar Library Links
6. Vine, Rita (January 2006). Google Scholar. Journal of the Medical Library Association 94 (1): 97–9.
7. (unavailable link)
8. About Google Scholar. scholar.google.com. Archived from the original on March 29, 2012. Retrieved July 29, 2010.
9. Google Scholar Help
10. Official Google Blog: Exploring the scholarly neighborhood
11. Joran Beel and Bela Gipp. Google Scholar's Ranking Algorithm: An Introductory Overview. In Birger Larsen and Jacqueline Leta, editors, Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI’09), volume 1, pages 230-241, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), July 2009. International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics. ISSN 2175-1935.
12. Joran Beel and Bela Gipp. Google Scholar's Ranking Algorithm: The Impact of Citation Counts (An Empirical Study). In André Flory and Martine Collard, editors, Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS’09), pages 439-446, Fez (Morocco), April 2009. IEEE. doi: 10.1109/RCIS.2009.5089308 . ISBN 978-1-4244-2865-6.
13. Bauer, Kathleen, Bakkalbasi, Nisa (September 2005) "An Examination of Citation Counts in a New Scholarly Communication Environment" D-Lib Magazine, Volume 11, No. 9
14. Peter Brantley: Science Directly into Google O'Reilly Radar, July 3, 2007

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Google Scholar — search system, which indexes the full texts of scientific publications in all formats and disciplines. Google Scholar includes articles that are published in journals, articles that are stored in repositories or located on the websites of scientific journals, personal pages of scientists.

In order to register in the Google Scholar database, you must first create a google account. You will be prompted to enter some personal data, create email*gmail.com.

After registration, go to home page Google search engine and click on the "Login" button in the upper right corner. In the new window, enter the mailbox address and password we specified.

Registering for Google Scholar

You need to go through several registration steps.

Attention (!)- in the "email" field, you must enter not your personal mailbox, but the institution in which you work.

In order to find out or receive an email from your institution, you need to contact the relevant information service or department. You can also make a report asking for electronic mailboxes on the official domain of the institution to one or more employees. In our case, we made a report addressed to the first vice-rector of the university from the head of the department. You can have a sample report.

Google Scholar will implement search query based on your Last Name, First Name and Patronymic and will offer to indicate or refute the authorship of some articles that have already been indexed. You can skip this step if you are not the author of the found articles.

Choose to update or not the list of articles in your profile and move on.

After creating a profile, you need to activate it by clicking on the link that will be sent to your email address. Here you can add articles, view citation statistics

How to use Google Scholar?

Google Scholar on the portal Google Scholar) is a freely available search engine that provides full-text search for scientific publications in all formats and disciplines. The system has been operating since November 2004, initially in beta version. The Google Academy Index includes most of the peer-reviewed online journals in Europe and America from major scientific publishers.

It is similar in function to the freely available Scirus systems from Elsevier, CiteSeerX and getCITED. It is also similar to paid subscription based tools such as Elsevier in Scopus and Thomson ISI's .

Google Scholar's advertising slogan - "standing on the shoulders of giants"- a tribute to scientists who have contributed to the development of science over the centuries and provided the basis for new discoveries and achievements. Presumably borrowed from Newton's quote: "If I have seen further than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants."

Google Academy is Russified, which means it is open to user access science articles, abstracts, books, abstracts, reviews of academic publishers and professional societies, online repositories of universities and other popular science and educational sites.

Google Scholar allows users to search for digital or physical copies of articles, whether online or in libraries. "Scientific" search results are generated using links from full-text journal articles, technical reports, preprints, dissertations, books, and other documents, including selected web pages that are considered "scientific". Because most scientific Google search results are direct links to commercial journal articles, most users will only be able to access a brief abstract of the article as well as a small amount of important information about the article, and may have to pay to access the full article. Google Scholar just as easy to use as a regular Google web search, especially with "Advanced Search", which can automatically narrow search results to specific journals or articles. The most significant keyword search results will be listed in the order of the author's ranking, the number of citations that are associated with her and their relationship to other scientific literature, and the publication ranking of the journal in which she is published.

Thanks to its "cited in" features, Google Scholar provides access to abstracts of articles that cite the article in question. It is this feature in particular that provides the citation index previously available only in and the Web of Knowledge. This index can be used for webometric ranking of sites. Due to its function "Related Articles" Google Scholar presents a list of closely related articles, ranked primarily by how similar those articles are to the original result, but also by the importance of each article.

What does registration in Google Scholar give?

If before registration, Google Academy could only be used as a means of searching for articles by other authors, then after registration, this site will help you track the dynamics of citing your own works. You can not only see the total number of citations, but also find out who and when referred to your work, build a citation chart and determine the currently popular scientometric indicators.

Also, users of the "Academy" can make their profile available, and then the link to your profile will be visible to users viewing your work. Perhaps this will help you make useful contacts with colleagues who study the same issues around the world.

Google Scholar can make your work more visible to the scientific community around the world. Google Scholar uses information about digital library resources to create per-article links to library servers in search results. With the help of the database database being created, the user can find the desired book in the library closest to him.

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Indexing Limitations and Criticism of the Ranking Algorithm

While most academic databases and search engines allow users to select one of the factors (such as relevance, number of citations, or publication date) to rank results, Google Scholar ranks results using a combined ranking algorithm. Google Scholar places particular weight on the number of citations and words included in the title of a document. As a result, the first search results often contain highly cited articles.

A significant problem with Google Scholar is the lack of coverage data. Some publishers do not allow her to index their journals. Magazines Elsevier were not included in the index until mid-2007, when Elsevier made most of his content on ScienceDirect available to Google Scholar in Google Web Search. Google Scholar does not publish a crawl list of scientific journals. The frequency of its update is also unknown. However, it provides easy access to published articles without the hassle of some of the most expensive commercial databases.

In addition, this academic search engine is currently filled with pseudoscientific articles, making it a potentially dangerous database for anyone doing serious research, from students to academics. The problem is that Google Scholar strives to index as fully as possible articles appearing in scientific journals. However, many unscrupulous publishers use indexing mechanisms Google Scholar and include in its index numerous pseudoscientific or low-quality publications that would not pass the peer-review process in scientific journals.