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Google Scholar is a search engine which provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. You can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other websites.
Google Scholar returns the most relevant search results first. This method of sorting results is called ‘relevance ranking’. Google Scholar’s relevance ranking is based on the number of times a document has been cited in other documents indexed by Google Scholar. Items that are cited the most by other items will show up higher in the result list.
The downside of relevance ranking is that the most recent articles are generally not included in the top results. The reason for this is simply that it takes time for an article to be cited by other articles.
Having trouble accessing Google Scholar?
When trying to access Google Scholar, you may sometimes encounter the following error messages:
- “ERROR for site owner: Invalid domain for site key”
- “Please show you’re not a robot.”
This can occur when too many people access Google Scholar via our proxy server.
Please follow these instructions to resolve the issue.
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Cite
Click on the double quotes and a window will open showing how this article is listed in a source list according to MLA, APA, Chicago, Harvard or Vancouver. Ensure there is no missing information, for example, a link or DOI, and always check if the reference is correct.
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