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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: 0.001s | source
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teruakohatu ◴[18 Nov 24 20:59 UTC] No.42176959[source]▶
The best thing, by a long way, that Google Scholar has achieved is denying Elsevier & co a monopoly on academic search.

In most universities here in New Zealand, articles have to be published in a journal indexed by Elsevier's Scopus. Not in a Scopus-indexed journal, it does not count anymore than a reddit comment. This gives Elsevier tremendous power. But in CS/ML/AI most academics and students turn to Google Scholar first when doing searches.

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freefaler ◴[18 Nov 24 21:07 UTC] No.42177049[source]▶
or turn to sci-hub and annas-arhive :)
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philipkglass ◴[18 Nov 24 21:24 UTC] No.42177217[source]▶
You use Google Scholar to find papers you're interested in, then use sci-hub to actually read them.
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1. orochimaaru ◴[19 Nov 24 20:29 UTC] No.42187763[source]▶
Not sure if researchgate is still a thing. I had it and uploaded all my papers there. They show up automatically on Google. I believe this is allowed since you’re allowed to share copies of your publication on your website.

The problem is my researchgate account was connected to my academic account. It’s been a while since I graduated so I’ve lost access to my own publications and page.

But I used to use researchgate and requests in researchgate quite a bit.