Google Scholar Adds “Related Search” Feature; Let’s See All the Citations, 1000 Limit Remains
This reads very similarly in concept (weighting measures) to the sorting option GS launched 4 months ago.
Regarding the sort-by-date feature launched in April:
“It’s not just a plain sort by date, but rather we try to rank recent papers the way researchers do, by looking at the prominence of the author’s and journal’s previous papers, how many citations it already has, when it was written, and so on.”
Btw, an issue we have pointed out several times since the early days of Google Scholar remains after today’s update. When an article has more than 1000 citations (a classic perhaps), a researcher might want to review all of these citations, download for offline analysis, etc. However, Google still caps the limit at approx 1000 entries, just like they do with web search. If they want to play in the big leagues of scholarly databases, a user should have access to all entries/citations.
Thanks to Google Blogoscoped for the news tip.
UPDATE: If you’re working on a computer with SafeSearch in the strict mode, Google Scholar observes this. However, GS does not offer an option on the GS preferences page to turn it off. You’ll need to go back to the main preferences page. Additionally, when full safe search is active, words and terms that are blocked in Google Web Search are also blocked in Google Scholar. Aside from those certain words and phrases being blocked, other results appear to be the same in the several test searches we ran.
October 23rd, 2006 at 3:59 am
[...] 5) Comments from August about Google Scholar still not allowing a researcher (the type of person Google Scholar is aimed at) to review more than 1000 results (as is the case with any Google Search product). Again, in most cases this might not be an issue but with this type of material a searcher might want to download all of the citations and use one of many tools to look for patterns, stats, undiscovered material, etc. Similar products allow this. Actually this is important for the serious researcher. [...]
December 14th, 2006 at 4:03 pm
[...] 2) Watch those totals and use advanced search features to narrow your search! Why? This search for FM Radio shows 1002 results. However, you can only view 579 of them. Another search for “Search Engine” shows a total of 1157 results, however you can not view beyond result 577. One more search, this time for electric motor. The total listed is 1247 but a user can only view to result 596. Of course, MOST people will only look at the first few results be it a specialty database or a general web database. However, as we’ve pointed out with Google Scholar, some users might want to review all of the results and perhaps analyze offline when it comes to specialty searches. So, not being able to review all of the results might be an issue. Most likely not an issue for most searchers, just something to keep in mind. [...]