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20 years of Google Scholar

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412 points thepuppet33r | 1 comments | 18 Nov 24 18:01 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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random3 ◴[18 Nov 24 22:08 UTC] No.42177658[source]▶
Fun fact about Google Scholar: it’s "free", but it’s just another soulless Google product - no clear strategy, no support, and a fragile proprietary dependency in what should be an open ecosystem. This creates inherent risks for the academic community. We need the equivalent of arXiv for Google Scholar
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sitkack ◴[19 Nov 24 00:04 UTC] No.42178675[source]▶
And that is semantic scholar, https://www.semanticscholar.org/
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mapmeld ◴[19 Nov 24 00:24 UTC] No.42178841[source]▶
For people unfamiliar, Semantic Scholar is run by the Allen Institute and has been researching accurate AI summarization and semantic search for years. Also they have support for author name changes.
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crazygringo ◴[19 Nov 24 01:07 UTC] No.42179115[source]▶
How does it compare with Google Scholar?

It advertises itself as "from all fields of science" -- does that includes fields like economics? Sociology? Political science? What about law journals? In other words, is the coverage as broad? And if it doesn't include certain fields, where is the "science" line drawn?

And I'm curious if people find it to be as useful (or more) just in terms of UX, features, etc.

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1. Onawa ◴[19 Nov 24 03:08 UTC] No.42179753[source]▶
Semantic Scholar's search is pretty good, but there are also a variety of other (paid) projects that expand on its API. Look at tools like Scite and LitMaps for what's possible with the semantic scholar dataset.

As for coverage, I think it focuses more on the life sciences, but I'm not positive about that.