Lanagan, James and Smeaton, Alan F.ORCID: 0000-0003-1028-8389
(2010)
SIGIR: scholar vs. scholars' interpretation.
In: SIGIR 2010 - 33rd international ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in information retrieval, 19-23 July 2010, Geneva, Switzerland.
ISBN 978-1-4503-0153-4
Google Scholar allows researchers to search through a free and extensive source of information on scientific publications. In this paper we show that within the limited context of SIGIR proceedings, the rankings created by Google Scholar are both significantly different and very negatively correlated with those of domain experts.