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Illiteracy & Innumeracy of Google ScholarSamples May-June, 2009
Dr. Peter Jacso
ProfessorDept. of Information and Computer Sciences
University of Hawaii
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Boolean OR to broaden the search ends up being narrowed by an order of magnitude in the hands of GS
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Narrowing the year range increases the hit counts in GS
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What GS can fancy for author, journal name, publication year?
Street address, menu options names, part of fax numbers – you name it
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And the true metadata in the
source document
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Absurd citation matching yielding a too good to be true citedness count for a 1-year old paper
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The paper was seemingly cited years/ decade before it was published – according to GS
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Ghost authors and lost authors + phantom
citations –
courtesy of Google Scholar
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From Blackwell’s digital collection alone GS mis-identifies 58,000 authors as F. Password
Jacso
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Author names made from menu options
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38,600 papers by extremely productive and well-cited author named TOC View
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The real authors are robbed blind of citations
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Except some which GS could not match up and credit to the ghost author TOC View
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GS
Jacso
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What is publication year – page number, ZIP-code qualifier, you name it
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GS #1 item for PY=2010
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GS #2 item PY=2010
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