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What is Google Scholar index?
Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines.
What is the most cited article on Google Scholar?
The most highly-cited paper of all, “Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition”, published in Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, was written by a team from Microsoft in 2016. It has made a huge leap from 25,256 citations in 2019 to 49,301 citations in 2020.
How do you find scholarly articles?
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Why is Google a poor source for scholarly research?
Disadvantages of using Google Scholar: Google Scholar does not provide the criteria for what makes its results “scholarly”. Results are often vary in quality and it is up to the researcher to determine which of the results are suitable for their purposes.
What is Google Scholar good for?
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.
Who is the most cited author of all time?
From 1972 to 1992, Professor Chomsky was cited 7,449 times in the Social Science Citation Index-likely the greatest number of times for a living person there as well, although the research into those numbers isn’t complete. In addition, from 1974 to 1992 he was cited 1,619 times in the Science Citation Index.
What defines a scholarly article?
Scholarly articles are sometimes referred to as “peer-reviewed” or “refereed” because they are typically evaluated by other scholars before being accepted for publication. A scholarly article is commonly a study or a literature review, and usually longer than a magazine article.