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'''+''' more tolerant than PubMed to bad search terms and search terms including issue and pages numbers | |||
'''+''' searches patents in addition to published articles | |||
'''-''' Google hides how articles are ranked, biasing subsequent reading and citing | |||
'''-''' fewer hits are peer reviewed and are thus of slightly lower average quality compared to PubMed | |||
=== Ranking of articles === | === Ranking of articles === | ||
Revision as of 03:24, 2 April 2015
Google Scholar is a search engine for scientific publications, case law, and patents. Unlike PubMed it includes an estimated citation count and is more tolerant to search terms like misspelled author names and titles.
Pro and Con
+ more tolerant than PubMed to bad search terms and search terms including issue and pages numbers
+ searches patents in addition to published articles
- Google hides how articles are ranked, biasing subsequent reading and citing
- fewer hits are peer reviewed and are thus of slightly lower average quality compared to PubMed
