Experiences showed that an advanced set of metadata has to be provided for discovery, retrieval and evaluation of Internet sources for scholar work. In this paper we describe the Quality Metadata Scheme and its implementation within the smart search system xFIND for scholar work. The proposed idea may be seen as a further step to a more semantic World Wide Web for the scholar community.

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss the new scientific search service Google Scholar (GS). It aims to discuss this search engine, which is intended exclusively for searching scholarly documents, and then empirically test its most important functionality. The focus is on an exploratory study which investigates the coverage of scientific serials in GS. Design/methodology/approach – ...

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The official launch of Google Scholar Citations in 2011 opens a new horizon for analyzing the citations of individual researchers with unprecedented convenience and accuracy. This paper presents one of the first exploratory studies based on the data provided by Google Scholar Citations. More specifically, we conduct a series of investigations on: i) the overall citation patterns across differen...

Scholar citation is a basic activity in scientific community. Some academic search engines have been developed in Web such as Google Scholar and Microsoft Academic Search. Efficient flexible querying method is essential for researchers to effectively follow trends within related topics of their research field. In this paper, we propose a procedure to construct Micro Scholar Social Networks (MSS...