Putting Google Scholar to the test: A preliminary study

Program

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 71-80

  Robinson, Mary L ^a   Wusteman, Judith ^b  

^a St Luke's Institute of Cancer Research   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Information retrieval; Precision; Search engines

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847205734     PISSN: 00330337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00330330710724908     Document Type: Article

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