Earth Notes: General Bibliography (elliot2024scholar)

General public bibliography for EOU and related research. #bibliography #dataset

[elliot2024scholar] Kirsten Elliott Google Scholar is not broken (yet), but there are alternatives (accessed 2024-10-24), LSE (London School of Economics), 2024-10-22 (www) (BibTeX).

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For many Google Scholar has become a critical piece of research infrastructure. Yet, revelations in the manipulability of its metrics and its inclusion of AI generated papers have led some to ask is it still functional? Kirsten Elliott argues rather than being broken, these issues reflect the limitations of any academic search tool, but for those done with the platform there are alternatives.

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[Quote: "There are alternatives to Google Scholar which operate from an open research ethos and are free to use. Three prominent alternatives are The Lens, Matilda and OpenAlex. The one I've used most is OpenAlex. One study has found it to have comparable coverage to Web of Science and Scopus, and my own limited testing found significantly more publications indexed from social sciences and humanities subjects. Their code is fully open, and the data is reusable."]