Google Scholar Wins Raves—But Can It Be Trusted?
#Google Scholar Wins Raves—But Can It Be
Trusted?http://www.sciencemag.org/content/343/6166/14 #Citation spam possible, fake papers artificially inflating H-index
Science 3 January 2014:
Vol. 343 no. 6166 p. 14
DOI: 10.1126/science.343.6166.14
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Google Scholar Wins Raves—But Can It Be Trusted?
John Bohannon
Google Scholar is picking up adherents in the scientific community. But the search service’s ascendancy is not going unchallenged.