Google Scholar duped and deduped - The aura of "robometrics"

Online Information Review

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 154-160

  Jacs, Pter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Databases; Information retrieval; Research work; Search engines

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPERS; DATABASES; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; GOOGLE SCHOLAR; INFORMATION PROFESSIONALS; POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS; REFERENCE LIST;

ENGINEERING RESEARCH; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; INTERNET; LIBRARIES; METADATA; PUBLISHING;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 79953867734     PISSN: 14684527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14684521111113632     Document Type: Article

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