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Record W2011758729 · doi:10.1300/j111v46n03_04

It's All Academic: Google Scholar, Scirus, and Windows Live Academic Search

2008· article· en· W2011758729 on OpenAlexaff
Lyle Ford, Lisa O’Hara

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Library Administration · 2008
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicLibrary Science and Information Systems
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Manitoba
Fundersnot available
KeywordsWorld Wide WebSearch engineComputer scienceInformation retrievalSet (abstract data type)Library science

Abstract

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SUMMARY In April 2006 and again in November 2006, Google Scholar, Scirus, and Windows Live Academic Search were searched for a set of 39 citations found in databases covering science, computer science, electrical engineering, and physics, along with the British Library OPAC and WorldCAT. The functionality and coverage of each engine are compared. Changes in results and functionality between April and November 2006 are also noted. Google Scholar retrieved the most citations, followed by Scirus, and then by Microsoft's engine. Libraries should link to these engines and enable OpenURL and other link resolving systems to ease retrieval for their users.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.005
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.053
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScholarly communication
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.991
Threshold uncertainty score0.126

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0050.053
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0200.041
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0090.007
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0120.005

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.066
GPT teacher head0.302
Teacher spread0.236 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreReview

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Citations10
Published2008
Admission routes1
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