Questions tagged [google-scholar]

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Filter Google Scholar Results to show only Journal Articles

How can I filter my Google Scholar results to show only journal articles please? I would like to exclude conference papers, workshops and so on, which tend to be (or are seen as) not so carefully ...
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How to export my entire Google Scholar Library in BibTex

I want to export my entire Google Scholar Library into a BibTex in one click or by some other clever ways which I don't know about. At present, I can only export at max 10 articles in one go and I ...
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Does Google Scholar give personalized results?

More specifically, would any two Google Scholar search results entered at the same time with the same search criteria return the same results in the same order? If not, where can I learn more about ...
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My publications are attributed to another person's Google Scholar profile - what to do about it?

In Google Scholar, my papers are listed as the publications of another person (with a similar name like me). I suppose that Google Scholar's algorithms automatically (mis)attributed my papers to them. ...
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Add Google Scholar as a Firefox search engine?

Is there a way to add Google Scholar as a search engine for Firefox? Couldn't find a good Firefox add-on for that.
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Manually add a version of an article to Google Scholar?

I have a Google Scholar account with 1 article. It has been found and displays correctly by Google Scholar. I have added the same article to researchGate as a PDF so people can access it for free. ...
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Use Google Scholar for searching words appeared within Keywords

I have two words which are "team" and "conflict". I want to search for all the papers that have these two words in their "Keywords List". Note that the Keywords mean not the general keywords related ...
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Google Scholar error

I'm filling in my profile in Google Scholar. In the 2nd step, I should select the articles that I wrote, but it won't go to the 2nd page (by clicking '>' to see the 2nd page of the articles list) It ...
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How can I restrict Google Scholar searches to one specific journal?

Sometimes when I search in Google Scholar, for articles in a particular journal, I get results from other journals. For instance, when I was searching for articles in Psychological Bulletin, it would ...
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Any way to get previous Google Scholar results format?

On Friday or thereabouts, Google Scholar changed its results format and now a reference management application on which I rely cannot parse the results. Is there any way to make Google Scholar use ...
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Google Scholar user profile has disappeared from search results

I have a public user profile on Google Scholar, and my user profile used to show up when I searched my name on Google Scholar. However, as of about two weeks ago, it no longer appears in the search ...
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Missing "Create alert" icon in Google scholar search results page?

The "Create Alert" button is missing from my Google Scholar search results page. How can I restore it or create an alert without it? Let's say I run this advanced search in Google Scholar, which ...
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How can I restrict a Google Scholar search to a specified set of journals?

As an example, suppose I want to search for articles that contain the words "class size" and appear in either The Journal of Political Economy or in the American Economic Review. When I use the ...
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Weird Google Scholar results

Today I tried to get the amount of papers (roughly) since 2004. But while playing around in Google Scholar I noticed that I get more results when I filter with the "since 2016" button than with the "...
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Bulk download PDFs from Google Scholar

I would like to download ~100 scholarly articles from Google Scholar. I have institutional access, so Google Scholar presents the available PDF. Is there a way to automate the downloading of the PDF ...
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Obtaining the DOI in Google Scholar

Is there any way to get the DOI of the results in Google Scholar? E.g., in the following results page, I would like to get the DOI of the third result: Is there any way to get it without having to ...
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How can I link to a result in Google Scholar?

Sometimes I want to link to a research article on Google Scholar, as the latter contains a list of sources where we can retrieve the research article. Is there any good way to link to a specific ...
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How to display more search results in Google Scholar?

By default it shows only 20 results. Unlike the main Google page, there doesn't seem to be a way to increase it to 100.
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Where can I see my search history in Google Scholar?

I would like to see my search history in Google Scholar.
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How to make Google Scholar profile private

How can I make my Google Scholar profile private after making it public?
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Getting a list of papers cited by a given paper in google scholar

Google scholar does the reverse of what I would like -- it will return a list of papers which cite a given paper. Is there any way to get a list of all of the papers that a given paper cites, ...
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How to create a citation alert for a paper without citation in Google Scholar

In theory, creating a citation alert with Google Scholar is easy. Search for the paper, click on the "Cited by X" link just below the result, scroll down and click on "Create alert", and finally ...
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Fix broken PDF Link in Google Scholar

Does anyone know how to update or fix a PDF link in Google Scholar once it has become broken? I have co-authored some papers, but when I got a job at a new school the old one shut down my old ...
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Convert Google Scholar alert into RSS feed

I have created a Google Scholar email alert and I'm trying to figure out how to turn that into an RSS feed. Google Scholar alerts has no RSS feed option, unfortunately. Below is a picture of what the ...
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How to use Google Scholar to search key words in abstracts

I've noticed that I can search in Google Scholar for keywords in the titles or in the full paper content, but not in the "abstract only". Is there a workaround for doing that?
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Is it possible to list resulted papers by number of its citation in Google Scholar? [duplicate]

I use Google Scholar to search papers a lot. When I type in the key words, Google Scholar finds papers which contain those key words. I’m wondering, can Google Scholar sort these papers by their ...
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Search Google for exact string including hyphens [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How can I search for a keyword with special characters in Google Search? How to search the internet for terms with special characters I'm trying to do searches on Google (...
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Is there a way to configure Google Scholar to only show results where the document is freely available?

When I do a search, many of the papers are only available to subscribers of a particular service, listed as for sale, or behind some other kind of pay wall. However, if a document is available, there'...
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What happened to Google Scholar search by subject area?

It was possible to restrict search in Google Scholar by subject area, e.g. it was possible to select Engineering, Computer Science, and Mathematics in Advanced Scholar Search, which had the same ...
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How to limit Google Scholar to peer-reviewed papers?

Google Scholar is great to get a quick overview of scientific publications. However, it also gives you textbooks, theses and so forth. I would like to limit its results to include only peer-reviewed (...
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How to sort Google Scholar search results by number of citations?

There appears to be no way to sort Google Scholar search results by any field. If somebody has figured out a way to do so, please share.
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