Timeline for How to sort Google Scholar search results by number of citations?
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| Dec 8, 2021 at 17:31 | comment | added | Florian Fasmeyer | Google Scholar search algorithm is unknown. Also, a simple search will prove to you that the "number of citations" is not being considered, even for obvious cases. | |
| Sep 12, 2019 at 10:10 | comment | added | reggie | Nonsense. Google Scholar search results follow some opaque algorithm. It suggest papers that it deems relevant to your search based on criteria that are unknown. It does NOT return the highest-cited papers first. Hence the need for tools like Harzing's. | |
| Feb 22, 2015 at 12:01 | comment | added | sdaau | Well, I'd say if it doesn't give me sort options, so I can myself decide what sorting to use regardless of the breadth of the query (i.e. the number of results returned), I'd say it's not doing a "pretty good job in sorting them". | |
| May 16, 2012 at 19:27 | history | answered | Nico Schlömer | CC BY-SA 3.0 |