This paper analyzes the relationship between search engine hit counts and Wikipedia article views by evaluating the cross correlation between them. We observe the hit count estimates of three popular search engines over a month and compare them with the Wikipedia page views. The strongest cross correlations are recorded with their delays in days. We present the results in both graphs and quanti...

Search engines are the most powerful resources for finding information on the rapidly expanding World Wide Web (WWW). Finding the desired search engines and learning how to use them, however, can be very time consuming. The integration of such search tools enables the users to access information across the world in a transparent and efficient manner. These systems are called meta-search engines...

In this study, we propose a novel way to explore the patterns of people’s visits to academic articles. About 3.4 million links to referral source of visitors of 1432 papers published in the journal of PeerJ are collected and analyzed. We find that at least 57% visits are from external referral sources, among which General Search Engine, Social Network, and News & Blog are the top three categori...

While significant efforts have been devoted to the development of sophisticated search engines for a wide variety of data sources, how to record and share knowledge derived from data retrieved by search engines is still a major challenge. In this article, we discuss the problem of the lack of visual representations of data and concepts in current search engines. We then present a conceptual rel...

As the number of academic papers and new technologies soars, it has been increasingly difficult for researchers, especially beginners, to enter a new research field. Researchers often need to study a promising paper in depth to keep up with the forefront of technology. Traditional Query-Oriented study method is time-consuming and even tedious. For a given paper, existent academic search engines...

The evaluation of their research work and its effect has always been one of scholars’ greatest concerns. The use of citations for that purpose, as proposed by Eugene Garfield, is nowadays widely accepted as the most reliable method. However, gathering a scholar’s citations constitutes a particularly laborious task, even in the current Internet era, as one needs to correctly combine information ...