Google scholar's ranking algorithm: The impact of citation counts (an empirical study)

Proceedings of the 2009 3rd International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science, RCIS 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 439-446

  Beel, Jöran ^a   Gipp, Bela ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Academic search engines; Citation counts; Empirical study; Google scholar; Ranking algorithm

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC SEARCH ENGINES; CITATION COUNTS; EMPIRICAL STUDY; GOOGLE SCHOLAR; RANKING ALGORITHM;

ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SCIENCE; SEARCH ENGINES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

TECHNICAL WRITING;

EID: 70349471371     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RCIS.2009.5089308     Document Type: Conference Paper

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